CyberTraining: CDL: Cyber Infrastructure Training and Mentoring (CI-TraM)

网络基础设施培训和指导（CI-TraM）项目通过发展和提高对STEM职业感兴趣的本科生的网络基础设施（CI）素养来服务于国家利益。 它通过技术培训和职业指导来实现这一目标，重点是建立CI知识。 CI-TraM由活跃的STEM研究人员和IT专业人员直接指导新的本科生。 培训将由CI密集型领域的研究人员和CI专业人员组成的多元化小组提供。 主题将包括网络和数据安全，高性能计算，计算机体系结构和数据分析工具，以提供背景，探索计算a）网络安全，B）生物数据中的模式发现，c）计算物理，d）神经科学，e）游戏设计和人机交互，这将有助于应对创造未来STEM劳动力的挑战，这些劳动力具有促进科学进步所需的技术和专业技能;促进国家健康、繁荣和福利;或确保国防。 CI-TraM计划在西班牙裔服务机构（NMSU）开发，在STEM职业中培养不断增长但代表性不足的人口中未开发的人才。用于社区参与和学生招聘的模型解决了中学教育，中学后教育和个人职业规划和管理之间的过渡。 CI-TraM模式将被设计为制度化，并能够在其他社区复制。CI-TraM方案的主要目标是：1）开发一个程序，暴露和保留学生在CI-STEM领域，同时教他们成功追求所需的宝贵的技术和生活技能，实现，并保持职业生涯，2）开发一个可持续发展和可扩展到其他机构的计划，以便其他学生群体可以从该计划中受益。 该计划利用地区高中提供双/并行大学学分的共同工作现场实习程序。 CI-TraM计划将在每个学期和夏季（50/年）创建一批学生实习生，他们对STEM职业途径表现出兴趣/能力。 为了实现目标1，由STEM研究人员和IT专业人员开发和教授的技术培训和职业规划模块将由每个实习生完成。 在程序的开始和结束时，将对学生的知识进行一般评估，每个模块都将有一个有形的可交付成果，以评估学生在整个程序中的理解和进步。 该计划本身将通过纵向跟踪来评估，跟踪学生的未来。 评估结果将由项目协调员在持续改进过程中使用。 为实现目标2，将使用标准的学习管理系统生成这些单元，使其能够转移到其他大学。 外部顾问创建的规则将用于评估模块及其有效性，以及作为CI-TraM程序主体的模块的有效性，并可供其他人使用。

The Cyber Infrastructure Training and Mentoring (CI-TraM) project serves the national interest by developing and increasing the cyberinfrastructure (CI) literacy of undergraduates who are interested in STEM careers. It does this through technical training and career mentoring focused around building knowledge in CI. CI-TraM provides direct mentoring of new undergraduates by active STEM researchers and IT professionals. The training will be provided by a diverse group of researchers in CI-intensive domains and CI professionals. Topics will include network and data security, high performance computing, computer architecture, and data analytics tools to provide the background to explore computing in a) cybersecurity, b) patterns discovery in biological data, c) computational physics, d) neuroscience, e) game design and human-computer interaction, etc. This will help address the challenge of creating a future STEM workforce that has the technical and professional skills needed to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; or to secure the national defense. The CI-TraM program, developed in a Hispanic Serving Institution (NMSU), cultivates untapped talent within a growing, yet underrepresented, population in STEM careers. The model used for community engagement and student recruitment addresses the transitions between secondary education, post-secondary education, and individual career planning and management.  The CI-TraM model will be designed to become institutionalized with the ability to be replicated in other communities.The main goals of the CI-TraM program are: 1) To develop a program that exposed and retains students in CI-STEM fields while teaching them valuable technical and life skills needed for successfully pursing, attaining, and maintaining careers, and 2) To develop a program that is sustainable and scalable to other institutions so that other student populations may benefit from the program. The program utilizes common job site internship procedures in area high schools that provide dual/concurrent college credit. The CI-TraM program will create a cohort of students interns each academic semester and summer (50/yr) that have demonstrated interest/ability in STEM career pathways. To achieve Goal 1, technical training and career planning modules developed and taught by working STEM researchers and IT professionals will be completed by each student intern. At the start and finish of the program a general assessment of a student's knowledge will be performed, and each module would have a tangible deliverable to evaluate student understanding and progress throughout the program. The program itself will be assessed by a longitudinal follow up that will track students into their futures. Assessment results will be used by the program coordinators in a continual improvement process. To achieve Goal 2, the modules will be generated using a standard Learning Management System allowing them to be transferable to other universities. External consultant-created rubrics will be used to evaluate the modules and their efficacy as well as the efficacy of the modules together as the body of the CI-TraM program and available for others to use.