Michigan IRACDA: Training Future Professors of Engineering and Physiology

摘要 密歇根大学（UM）在培养博士后研究员方面有着悠久的历史，并致力于 加强多样性和未来的教师和学生在劳动力的管道，追求 科学/技术/工程/数学（STEM）领域。考虑到这一点， 亨利说，工程和医学院已经与两所大学合作，这两所大学都在45分钟的车程内。 福特学院（HFC）和韦恩县社区学院区（WCCCD）开发密歇根州 IRACDA：培养未来的工程和生理学教授计划，以培养未来的科学家- 教育工作者每个实习学者的拟议四年计划涉及最初三年的75%- 时间研究培训由32个UM研究导师谁拥有良好的培训记录，并得到良好的资助。 研究导师主要来自生物医学工程和生理学系， 其中助理教授3人，副教授9人，教授20人，培训人次230余人次 现任和过去的博士后和31名现任博士后谁是培训补助金资格。剩下的25% 前三年的培训时间包括教学培训，将在HFC和WCCCD进行。 每年将选出四名实习学者，计划的第3-5年将有12名学者;一半将 有一个工程重点，并在HFC和一半的生理学重点，并在WCCCD任教。的 第四年的培训将由研究导师负责，预计将使学者能够 完成他们的研究项目，进行一些教学和争取教师职位的工作。 HFC和WCCCD各有18，000 - 20，000名学生，科学班规模为24-36人， 代表性不足的少数民族学生人数（在HFC占46%，在WCCCD占80%以上）。两所大学将提供 我们的学者教授的几门课程包括解剖学和生理学，生物学，工程学和 数学来自HFC和WCCCD的六位导师的全职教学经验为7-20年， 导师，导师是因为他们出色的教学而被选中的。亮点和独特功能 我们的建议包括研究和教学导师的杰出记录，我们的学者评价 和选拔过程，重点是大学生与不同背景，我们预计作出 对学生的发展轨迹产生了巨大的影响，项目监督，一个机构的承诺， 已经允许招募两名密歇根州IRACDA学者，充分参与著名的UM中心， 学习与教学研究，为学者和 他们的教学导师，并提供机构支持，提供夏季研究奖学金多达20 来自HFC和WCCCD的学生。我们相信，我们的计划将成功地准备一个新的 一代科学家教育家是非常有效和成功的教师和导师， 我们将激励一批有前途的学生追求科学和工程事业。

Abstract The University of Michigan (UM) has a superb history of training postdoctoral fellows, and is committed to enhancing diversity and the pipeline of future teachers and students in the workforce that pursues the Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) fields. With this in mind, the UM College of Engineering and Medical School have partnered with two colleges that are within a 45 minute drive, Henry Ford College (HFC) and Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) to develop the Michigan IRACDA: Training of Future Professors of Engineering and Physiology program to train future scientist- educators. The proposed four-year program for each trainee scholar involves an initial three years of 75%- time research training by 32 UM research mentors who have an excellent training record and are well funded. The research mentors are based primarily in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology, and include 3 assistant professors, 9 associate professors and 20 professors; with a training record of >230 current and past postdocs and 31 current postdocs who are training grant eligible. The remaining 25% training time of the first 3 years consists of training in teaching, which will be carried out at HFC and WCCCD. Four trainee scholars will be selected annually, with 12 total scholars by years 3-5 of the program; half will have an engineering focus and teach at HFC and half with a physiology focus and teach at WCCCD. The fourth year of training will be covered by the research mentors and is expected to allow the scholars to complete their research projects, carry out some teaching and work towards securing a faculty position. HFC and WCCCD have 18,000-20,000 students each, with science class sizes of 24-36, and a large number of underrepresented minority students (46% at HFC, >80% at WCCCD). Both colleges will provide several courses for our scholars to teach including anatomy and physiology, biology, engineering and mathematics. The full-time teaching experience of the six mentors from HFC and WCCCD is 7-20 years per mentor, and the mentors were selected because of their outstanding teaching. Highlights and unique features of our proposal include the outstanding record of the research and teaching mentors, our scholar evaluation and selection process, the focus on college students with diverse backgrounds where we anticipate making a huge impact on the trajectory of the students, the program oversight, an institutional commitment that has already allowed recruiting two Michigan IRACDA scholars, full engagement of the renowned UM Center for Research on Learning and Teaching to provide training modules and opportunities for both the scholars and their teaching mentors, and the institutional support to provide summer research fellowships for up to 20 students from HFC and WCCCD. We are confident that our program will be successful in preparing a new generation of scientist-educators to be highly effective and successful faculty members and mentors, and that we will inspire an up-and-coming cohort of students to pursue science and engineering careers.