The Physics & Aerospace Catalyst Experiences in Research (PACER) Program for Minority Institutions

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。针对国家科学委员会和其他美国机构对科学与工程(S&E)劳动力的评估，物理与航天催化剂研究经验项目(PACCER)认为，如果美国要保持其技术领先地位，吸引和留住学生进入S；E职业生涯是至关重要的。此外，为了支持高科技经济的未来，今天的学生还需要研究经验，强调直接适用于未来科学和工程项目和产品开发的实用技能、技术和方法。最后，扩大国家技术人才库的最大机会可能来自于专注于女性和少数族裔的努力。Pace是一个项目，它将既定的技术和材料带给服务不足的学生和他们的导师，以促进少数族裔服务机构研究经验项目的持续发展。PACE通过以下方式解决这一问题：1)为来自少数族裔院校的团队(教职员工和3名学生)提供为期9周的强化暑期研究体验计划；2)继续与每个机构合作多个学年，为当地学生建立研究体验计划。在这种背景下，PACER的具体目标包括：1)吸引少数族裔和女性学生参加科学和工程项目；2)为学生提供研究经验，使他们的技能、技术和方法适用于他们的科学职业生涯；3)在多个少数群体机构建立专业知识核心，围绕这些机构发展当地可持续的学生研究体验计划；以及4)在这些机构实施学生研究体验计划时，培养和指导这些机构。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Physics & Aerospace Catalyst Experiences in Research (PACER) project directed in response to science and engineering (S&E) workforce assessments by the National Science Board, and other U.S. institutions, that attracting and retaining students into S&E careers is of paramount importance if the U.S. is to maintain its technology lead. Further, to support a high technology economic future, today's students also need research experiences that emphasize practical skills, techniques and methodologies that are directly applicable to the development of future science and engineering projects and products. Finally, the greatest opportunity to expand the nation's pool of technical talent will likely come from efforts focused on women and minorities. PACER is a project that brings established techniques and materials to underserved students, and their mentors, in order to foster continued development of research experience programs at minority serving institutions. PACER addresses this issues by 1) providing an intensive 9-week summer research experience program for teams (faculty member plus 3 students) from minority institutions and 2) continuing to partner with each institution for multiple academic years as they establish a research experience program for their local students. In this context, the specific objectives for PACER include: 1) Attract students from the ranks of minorities and women to science and engineering programs, 2) Provide students with a research experience that builds skills, techniques and methodologies applicable throughout their science career, 3) Establish a core of expertise at multiple minority institutions around which a local sustainable student research experience program can develop, and 4) Nurture and mentor these institutions as they implement their student research experience program.