NRT-IGE: STEM Professional Awareness, Advancement, and Development (PAAD)

NRT-IGE：STEM 专业意识、进步和发展 (PAAD)

• 批准号: 1735204
• 负责人: Cynthia Sides
• 金额: $ 49.93万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; IGE; STEM; Professional; Awareness

While STEM graduate students have exciting career options that expand upon the technical knowledge gained during their studies, new challenges and opportunities provided by technology advancements, digital influences, and commercialization interests, for example, mandate a revitalization of graduate education. Because millennial generation students will likely change careers multiple times, students must become trained for a broad variety of employment opportunities. Graduate training, therefore, should incorporate new and transferable skillsets to adequately prepare students for these numerous career paths. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of Arkansas will develop, test, and assess a curriculum model that incorporates STEM and non-STEM disciplines in professional awareness and development training of STEM graduate students. Additionally, the project will provide an innovative training approach for STEM and non-STEM faculty to think beyond the bounds of traditional academia and to better prepare STEM graduate students for a variety of careers. The project will create a new graduate education training cycle, from recruitment of students to successful graduation and employment, through the incorporation of curricular and co-curricular activities and with significant input from stakeholders in education, government, industry, non-profits, and communities. This new training model will result in better career preparation and success of STEM graduate students through assimilation of new skillsets that include not only depth of expertise in specific technical disciplines, but also a breadth of talent and ability in diverse technical and non-technical areas, such as communication, project planning, and management. Based on student, corporate, and community responses to current and previous programs at the University of Arkansas, this project will develop a new model to provide a holistic approach to career awareness, advancement, and development for STEM graduate students by providing broad professional preparation intertwined with technical training. NRT-supported faculty from STEM and non-STEM fields will receive training that will help them propose and develop novel curricular and co-curricular concepts and methods that support one or more of the tracks for student training (patent law, public policy/government, academia, or commercialization/entrepreneurship). Students will select one of these four professional tracks and integrate learning activities that include outreach and experiential learning into their technical programs. Data collected throughout the project will examine career awareness and placement outcomes, success of the model, and adaptation to other programs. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.

虽然STEM研究生有令人兴奋的职业选择，可以扩展他们在学习期间获得的技术知识，但技术进步、数字影响和商业化利益带来的新挑战和机遇，例如，要求振兴研究生教育。因为千禧一代的学生可能会多次改变职业，所以学生必须接受广泛的就业机会培训。因此，研究生培训应包括新的和可转移的技能，以使学生为这些众多的职业道路做好充分的准备。阿肯色大学研究生教育创新（IGE）项目的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将开发、测试和评估一种课程模式，该模式将STEM和非STEM学科纳入STEM研究生的专业意识和发展培训中。此外，该项目将为STEM和非STEM教师提供创新的培训方法，使他们超越传统学术界的界限，更好地为STEM研究生的各种职业做好准备。该项目将创建一个新的研究生教育培训周期，从招收学生到成功毕业和就业，通过课程和课外活动的结合，并得到教育、政府、工业、非营利组织和社区利益相关者的大量投入。这种新的培训模式将通过吸收新的技能，不仅包括特定技术学科的专业知识深度，还包括在各种技术和非技术领域（如沟通、项目规划和管理）的广泛人才和能力，为STEM研究生更好地做好职业准备和取得成功。基于学生、企业和社区对阿肯色大学当前和以前的项目的反应，该项目将开发一种新的模式，通过提供与技术培训相结合的广泛专业准备，为STEM研究生提供职业意识、进步和发展的整体方法。来自STEM和非STEM领域的nrt支持的教师将接受培训，帮助他们提出和开发新的课程和课外概念和方法，以支持学生培训的一个或多个轨道（专利法，公共政策/政府，学术界或商业化/创业）。学生将从这四个专业方向中选择一个，并将包括拓展和体验式学习在内的学习活动整合到他们的技术课程中。在整个项目中收集的数据将检查职业意识和安置结果、模式的成功以及对其他项目的适应性。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门用于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。