The National GEM Consortium: Graduate Student Travel Grant Program

该项目将在纽约举行的第41届创业板全国会议期间，向大学和行业领导展示当前的高级研究生，他们被确定为大学和创业板副研究员。该计划的总体目标是通过增加少数族裔的人数，对国家的经济福利产生积极影响，这些少数族裔是技术领导者，并且正在考虑在整个工程企业中从事长期职业。将这些多样化的工程人才库与行业和大学领导联系起来（在GEM年度会议期间），将为他们提供一个论坛，在他们扩展网络和从事专业发展的同时，提高他们的专业成就，这将为研究生学位获得者在行业或学术界的职业生涯做好更好的准备。将采用混合方法来检验参加会议对代表性不足的研究生的职业兴趣和目标样本的影响。该项目很可能会产生重要的实证结果，说明大学和行业领导者如何共同努力，培养和准备一支代表性不足的工程研究生学位骨干队伍，以从事长期的STEM职业。研究结果还将有助于确定学生参与特定专业发展机会的动机和感知利益。这些信息将有利于大学和行业利益相关者共同为大学和政府/工业实验室的职位发展一个持续的多样化的工程候选人库。

This project will expose current senior-level graduate students, who are identified as University and Associate GEM Fellows to university and industry leadership, during the 41st GEM National Conference in New York City, New York. The overarching goal of the program is to positively impact the nation's economic welfare by increasing the ranks of underrepresented minorities, who are technical leaders and who are considering long-term careers throughout the engineering enterprise. Connecting this diverse pool of engineering talent with industry and university leadership (during the annual GEM conference) will offer a forum to enhance their professional success as they extend their network and engage in professional development, which will better prepare graduate degree earners for a career in industry or academia. A mixed-methods approach will be used to examine the impact conference participation had on the sample of underrepresented graduate students' career interests and goals. It is likely that this project will yield important empirical findings on how universities and industry leaders can work together to develop and prepare a cadre of underrepresented, engineering graduate degree earners for long-term STEM careers. The findings will also help to identify students' motivations and perceived benefits for participating in specific professional development opportunities. Such information will be beneficial to both university and industry stakeholders to collectively develop a sustained pool of diverse engineering candidates for positions in universities and government/industrial laboratories.