Collaborative Research: EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst Initiative

STEM指导研究表明，积极的指导经验对STEM的保留和扩大STEM领域的参与(例如，代表不足的少数群体、妇女和残疾人)具有重大影响。工科目前正处于十字路口，需要尽一切努力留住有才华的工科学生。很少有研究完全集中在工程指导上，这些研究中没有一项包括对指导人员的重要培训部分。本项目计划使用和衡量导师培训对工程研究人员的影响。EFRI研究体验和辅导(EFRI-REM)计划将被用作一项试点计划，以衡量纳入导师培训和根据EFRI-REM学生的成果建立以工程为重点的指导社区的成功程度。虽然EFRI-REM研究参与者将被用来试验这一计划，但其结果将对整个工程研究社区产生潜在的深远影响。例如，建议的？培训培训师？导师培训模式将广泛传播到EFRI-REM社区之外。为促进导师培训而培训的教师将受到鼓励和支持，在EFRI-REM计划之外为工程学教师和学生提供培训，潜在影响覆盖整个工程研究领域。此外，开发的在线指导社区将继续为工程指导提供支持，以讨论最佳实践和持续的指导问题。受过良好指导的学生的影响可能会对留住工程学研究生产生巨大的潜在积极影响，并鼓励本科生攻读工程学更高的学位。

STEM mentoring research shows that positive mentoring experiences have a significant impact on STEM retention and broadening participation of (e.g., underrepresented Minorities (URM), women and persons with disabilities) in STEM fields. Engineering is currently at a crossroad and everything that can be done to retain talented engineering students needs to be done. There are few studies that focus solely on engineering mentoring and none of these studies include a significant training component for the mentors. This project plans to use and measure the impact of mentor training on engineering researchers. The EFRI Research Experience and Mentoring (EFRI-REM) program will be used as a pilot program to measure the success of inclusion of mentor training and the building of an engineering focused mentoring community on outcomes of EFRI-REM students. While the EFRI-REM research participants will be used to pilot this program, the outcomes will have potentially far reaching impact throughout the engineering research community. For example, the proposed ?train the trainer? mentor training model will be broadly disseminated beyond the EFRI-REM community. Faculty trained to facilitate mentor training will be encouraged and supported to offer training to engineering faculty and students beyond the EFRI-REM program, with potential impacts reaching the entire engineering research spectrum. In addition, the developed online mentoring community will provide continued support for engineering mentors to discuss best practices and ongoing mentoring issues. The impact of well-mentored students could have large potential positive impacts on retention of graduate students in engineering and encourage undergraduate engineering students to pursue advanced degrees in engineering.