Underrepresented Minority Internships for Chemists, Chemical/Environmental/Mechanical Engineers, and Civil Engineers

在化学、化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统部门以及土木、机械和制造创新部门的支持下，GEM联盟旨在通过双管齐下的方式改善STEM劳动力的多样性。首先，创业板鼓励被选中的少数族裔（URM）学生攻读STEM领域的研究生学位，确保他们在创业板成员大学项目中获得生活津贴和学费。接下来，GEM为入选的学生提供带薪实习机会，为学生提供工作经验和社交机会。最终，该项目旨在为URM学生提供先进的STEM教育和职业道路。作为美国国家科学基金会（National science Foundation）使命的核心部分，促进科学进步和建设具有全球竞争力的劳动力队伍需要增加科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的多样性。该项目为化学、化学与环境工程、运输与流体机械工程、土木与机械工程等STEM领域的博士生和硕士生提供培训途径。入选GEM联盟的URM学生申请加入大学成员项目，一经录取，GEM将提供生活费和学费津贴。大学支付剩余的学费，对于博士级学生，在学位期间的生活津贴（通过教学或研究助理或其他方式）。这鼓励成员大学接受URM学生，同时保证学生获得高级学位的经济可行性。通过这项努力，总共将支持52名学生。这些学生还参加了GEM帮助安排的带薪实习，这使学生能够建立职业网络并为他们提供工作经验。这些学生和其他通过GEM支持的学生将成为对该方法有效性进行长期评估的一部分。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。

With support of the Divisions of Chemistry, and Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems, and the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division, the GEM Consortium aims to improve diversity in the STEM workforce through a two-pronged approach. First, GEM encourages selected underrepresented minority (URM) students to pursue graduate degrees in STEM fields by ensuring that the students receive a living stipend and tuition while enrolled in a GEM member-university program. Next, GEM provides access to paid internships for the selected students, providing the students with work experience and networking opportunities. Ultimately this project works to illustrate and provide pathways for advanced STEM education and careers for URM students. Promoting progress in science and building a globally competitive workforce, a core part of the National Science Foundation's mission, requires increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This project provides training pathways for both Ph.D. and Master's level students in the STEM fields of Chemistry, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Transport and Fluid Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Mechanical Engineering. GEM consortium-selected URM students apply to the university-member programs, and upon acceptance, GEM provides a stipend towards living expenses and tuition. The universities cover the remainder of the tuition, and in the case of Ph.D. level students, a living stipend (through teaching or research assistantships or other methods) for the duration of the degree. This encourages member universities to accept URM students, while assuring students of the economic feasibility of an advanced degree. A total of 52 students will be supported through this effort. These students also participate in a paid internship that GEM helps to arrange, which enables students to build a career network and provides them with work experience. These students and others supported through GEM will be part of a long term evaluation on the effectiveness of this approach.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.