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卓越的历史，并致力于 加强多样性和未来教师和学生在工作中的渠道，追求 科学/技术/工程/数学(STEM)领域。考虑到这一点，密歇根州立大学 亨利，工程和医学院已经与两所距离45分钟车程的大学建立了合作关系 福特学院(HFC)和韦恩县社区学院区(WCCCD)共同开发密歇根州 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。拟议的每名实习学者的四年计划包括最初三年的75%- 由32名UM研究导师进行时间研究培训，他们拥有出色的培训记录和充足的资金。 研究导师主要在生物医学工程和生理学系，以及 包括助理教授3人，副教授9人，教授20人，培训记录230 目前和过去的博士后和31名现届博士后符合培训资助条件。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，到方案的第三至第五年，总共有12名学者；一半将 专注于工程并在HFC任教，一半专注于生理学并在WCCCD任教。这个 第四年的培训将由研究导师负责，预计将允许学者 完成他们的研究项目，进行一些教学，并为获得教员职位而工作。 HFC和WCCCD各有18,000-20,000名学生，理科班级人数为24-36人，还有很大的 少数民族学生人数不足(HFC为46%，WCCCD为80%)。两所学院都将提供 我们的学者要教授几门课程，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每年7-20年 导师，而导师们之所以被选中，是因为他们出色的教学。亮点和独特之处 我们的建议包括优秀的研究和教学导师的记录，我们的学者评价 和遴选过程，重点关注不同背景的大学生，我们预计在那里 对学生的发展轨迹、项目监督、机构承诺产生了巨大影响 已经允许招聘两名密歇根州IRACDA学者，充分参与著名的UM中心 学与教的研究为学者和教师提供培训模式和机会 他们的教学导师，以及提供多达20个暑期研究奖学金的机构支持 来自HFC和WCCCD的学生。我们相信，我们的计划将成功地筹备一个新的 一代科学家-教育家将成为高效和成功的教职员工和导师， 我们将鼓励一批崭露头角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.