Research Experience In Tissue Engineering Science and Technology

这一奖项将使首席调查员(PI)能够支持为STEM中代表性不足的少数族裔学生举办的组织工程科学和技术暑期学校项目。暑期班旨在创造一个课堂环境，旨在为参与者提供实践研究经验，并为新兴组织工程领域中代表性不足的少数族裔/女性学生提供重点培训和指导。基于层次的学习环境包括首席调查员、研究生和本科生以及新招募的人员，以开发设计生物材料结构、创建组织和组织界面的策略。在夏季，参与者将实施新的设计和战略来构建他们的工程组织。该项目将侧重于促进工程、科学和技术的多样性，并将采用导师制方法，包括在专业发展、科学写作和沟通技能发展方面提供研究经验和指导参与者。该项目的参与者将把原型的新知识和演示带到课堂上，作为一种工具来提高对科学和工程技术的认识。眼前的好处将包括促进STEM职业生涯和解决生物医学科学/工程相关领域的长期劳动力多样性问题。这一奖项将使PI能够实施成功的辅导计划，并创建实验室辅导示范，以吸引STEM职业生涯中的少数族裔/女性学生。PI既有成功的记录，也有成功实施这一极具回报的教育补助金所需的资源。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will enable the Principal Investigator (PI) to support a Tissue Engineering Science and Technology summer school project for underrepresented minorities students in STEM. The summer school is designed to create a class room environment aimed to provide participants with hands-on research experience and focused training and mentoring for underrepresented minority/women students in the emerging field of tissue engineering. The hierarchy-based learning environment involves the principle investigator, graduate students and undergraduates along with new recruits to develop strategies to design biomaterial structures, create tissues and tissue interfaces. During the summer, the participants will implement new designs and strategies to build their engineered tissue. The project will focus on promoting diversity in engineering, science and technology and will use a mentorship approach that involves providing research experience as well as mentoring participants in professional development, scientific writing, and communications skills development. Participants of this project will bring new knowledge and demos of prototypes to the classroom that will serve as a tool to create awareness in science and engineering technologies. The immediate benefits would include promotion of STEM careers and address long-term workforce diversity issues in the biomedical science/ engineering related areas. This award will allow the PI to implement a successful mentoring program and create laboratory mentoring demonstrations to attract minority/women students in STEM careers. The PI has both a successful track record and the resources necessary to successfully implement this highly rewarding education grant.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.