Career Development and Preparation for STEM Career Pathways

该项目是匹兹堡大学和卡耐基梅隆大学的合作项目，旨在促进两校学生的创新。该项目符合美国国家科学基金会促进创新和教育学生的目标，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项目，利用NSF研究生研究人员计划（GRFP）和NSF I-Corps站点计划，向研究生介绍科学技术工程和数学（STEM）领域的创新职业机会。这些GRFP学生将被纳入I-Corps团队，提供STEM相关主题的领域专业知识，同时通过创新研究所促进的虚拟机会启动学习创新过程。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。项目团队将在毕业后的五年内跟踪学生在项目中的参与度，以及参与者的成功情况，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结果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.