The National GEM Consortium: Graduate Student Travel Grant Program

该项目将在纽约市纽约举行的第41届全球创业板全国会议期间，使被确定为全球创业板大学和准研究员的当前高级研究生接触大学和行业领导。该计划的总体目标是通过增加代表性不足的少数民族，谁是技术领导者，谁正在考虑整个工程企业的长期职业生涯的行列，积极影响国家的经济福利。将这个多元化的工程人才库与行业和大学领导层联系起来（在年度GEM会议期间）将提供一个论坛，以提高他们的专业成功，因为他们扩展了自己的网络并参与专业发展，这将更好地为研究生学位获得者在行业或学术界的职业生涯做好准备。 一个混合方法的方法将被用来检查的影响，会议的参与对样本的代表性不足的研究生的职业兴趣和目标。该项目很可能会产生重要的实证研究结果，说明大学和行业领导者如何共同努力，为长期STEM职业发展和培养一批代表性不足的工程研究生学位获得者。调查结果还将有助于确定学生参与特定专业发展机会的动机和感知利益。这些信息将有利于大学和行业利益相关者共同开发一个可持续的多元化工程候选人库，以填补大学和政府/工业实验室的职位。

This project will expose current senior-level graduate students, who are identified as University and Associate GEM Fellows to university and industry leadership, during the 41st GEM National Conference in New York City, New York. The overarching goal of the program is to positively impact the nation's economic welfare by increasing the ranks of underrepresented minorities, who are technical leaders and who are considering long-term careers throughout the engineering enterprise. Connecting this diverse pool of engineering talent with industry and university leadership (during the annual GEM conference) will offer a forum to enhance their professional success as they extend their network and engage in professional development, which will better prepare graduate degree earners for a career in industry or academia. A mixed-methods approach will be used to examine the impact conference participation had on the sample of underrepresented graduate students' career interests and goals. It is likely that this project will yield important empirical findings on how universities and industry leaders can work together to develop and prepare a cadre of underrepresented, engineering graduate degree earners for long-term STEM careers. The findings will also help to identify students' motivations and perceived benefits for participating in specific professional development opportunities. Such information will be beneficial to both university and industry stakeholders to collectively develop a sustained pool of diverse engineering candidates for positions in universities and government/industrial laboratories.