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法提高STEM劳动力的多样性。首先，GEM鼓励选定的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生攻读STEM领域的研究生学位，确保学生在注册GEM成员大学课程时获得生活津贴和学费。接下来，GEM为选定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，该项目旨在说明并为URM学生提供高级STEM教育和职业生涯的途径。促进科学进步和建设具有全球竞争力的劳动力队伍是美国国家科学基金会使命的核心部分，需要增加科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的多样性。该项目为博士和博士生提供了培训途径。和硕士水平的学生在化学，化学和环境工程，运输和流体机械工程，土木和机械工程的STEM领域。GEM财团选择的URM学生申请大学成员计划，并在接受后，GEM提供生活费和学费津贴。大学支付其余的学费，在博士学位的情况下。学生，生活津贴（通过教学或研究助学金或其他方法）为学位的持续时间。这鼓励成员大学接受URM学生，同时向学生保证高级学位的经济可行性。共有52名学生将通过这一努力得到支助。这些学生还参加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。这些学生和通过GEM支持的其他人将成为对这种方法有效性的长期评估的一部分。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.