Marine Technician Mentoring and Internship Program in Partnership With the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

0510158 Lunsford授予加州蒙特利半岛学院的这一奖项扩展了一项支持在进行海洋学研究的学术船上实习的计划。 MATE中心位于加州的蒙特雷半岛学院，于1997年在NSF先进技术教育计划（ATE）的支持下成立。 根据该计划开发的课程和教育活动的一个组成部分是实习计划，将参与海洋技术研究的社区学院和大学的学生置于职业培训环境中，他们可以获得海洋技术职业的工作经验。 航海经验是这种培训的一个特别重要的组成部分，但机会有限，很容易与课程和学术日历相结合。 六年来，MATE一直与美国学术船队（UNOLS，或大学-国家海洋学实验室系统）和海洋钻探计划的研究船赞助合作实习计划，这两个项目都得到了NSF的支持。 目前的建议是为15名实习生提供资金，在今后三年中每年在研究船上航行，发展技术、科学、航海和人际交往技能。 实习计划包括学生和导师的技能评估和项目评估，MATE维护前几年实习的数据，以跟踪成功和失败并改善计划运营。

0510158LunsfordThis award to Monterey Peninsula College in California extends a program of support for internships on academic ships conducting oceanographic research. The MATE Center, based at Monterey Peninsula College in California, was established with support from the NSF Advanced Technology Education Program (ATE) in 1997. A component of the curricular and educational activities developed under this program is an internship program, placing students from community colleges and universities involved in marine technology studies in career training situations where they can obtain work experience in marine technology careers. Seagoing experience is a particularly important component of this training, but one with limited opportunities that can readily be integrated with classes and the academic calendar. MATE has for six years sponsored a collaborative internship program with research ships of the US academic fleet (UNOLS, or University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System) and the Ocean Drilling Program, both supported by NSF. The present proposal is to provide funds for fifteen student interns to sail on research vessels annually for each of the next three years, developing technical, scientific, seamanship and interpersonal skills. The internship program includes skills evaluations and project evaluations by both student and mentor, and data on prior years' internships is maintained by MATE to track successes and failures and improve program operations.***