Career Development and Preparation for STEM Career Pathways

STEM 职业道路的职业发展和准备

• 批准号: 1946629
• 负责人: Evan Facher
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946629&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Career; Development; Preparation; STEM; Pathways

This project is a collaborative effort between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to promote innovation to students on both campuses. This project is aligned with NSF goals for promoting innovation and educating students such that they understand the pathways to a career in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Innovation. The project goal is to design and develop a program that utilizes the NSF Graduate Research Fellows Program (GRFP) and the NSF I-Corps Sites program to introduce graduate students to innovation career opportunities in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM). These GRFP students will be included in I-Corps teams and offer domain expertise in STEM related topics while learning the innovation process through a virtual opportunity start-up facilitated by the Innovation institute. The project will also include interdisciplinary activities such as field trips to expose the students to regional innovation resources and allow them to gain an understanding of the regional innovation ecosystem. The project team will track student engagement level in the project as well as the success of the participants for five years after graduation and metrics associated with diversity and inclusion. The project will launch a pilot to evaluate the proposed model and share the outcomes of this pilot project with other NSF Sites and Nodes.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.

该项目是匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学之间的合作努力，以促进两个校区的学生创新。 该项目与NSF促进创新和教育学生的目标保持一致，使他们了解科学技术工程和数学（STEM）创新的职业道路。 该项目的目标是设计和开发一个利用NSF研究生研究员计划（GRFP）和NSF I-Corps网站计划的计划，向研究生介绍科学技术工程和数学（STEM）的创新职业机会。这些GRFP学生将被纳入I-Corps团队，并提供STEM相关主题的领域专业知识，同时通过创新研究所提供的虚拟机会创业来学习创新过程。 该项目还将包括跨学科活动，如实地考察，让学生接触区域创新资源，并让他们了解区域创新生态系统。 项目团队将跟踪学生在项目中的参与程度，以及参与者毕业后五年的成功情况，以及与多样性和包容性相关的指标。 该项目将启动一个试点项目，以评估拟议的模型，并与其他NSF站点和节点分享该试点项目的成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。