Michigan IRACDA: Training Future Professors of Engineering and Physiology

 描述(由申请人提供)：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，并在从事科学/技术/工程/数学(STEM)领域的劳动力队伍中培养未来的教师和学生。考虑到这一点，密歇根大学工程和医学院与两所距离45分钟车程的学院--亨利福特学院(HFC)和韦恩县社区学院区(WCCCD)--合作开发了密歇根IRACDA：未来工程和生理学教授培训项目，以培养未来的科学家-教育者。针对每位实习学者的拟议四年计划包括由32名UM研究导师进行最初三年的75%时间的研究培训，这些导师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，包括3名助理教授、9名副教授和20名教授；培训记录为230名现任和过去的博士后以及31名符合培训资助资格的现届博士后。前三年剩下的25%的培训时间包括教学培训，将在HC和WCCCD进行。每年将选出4名实习学者，到该计划的第3-5年，总共有12名学者；一半专注于工程并在HFC任教，另一半专注于生理学并在WCCCD任教。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努力。HFC和WCCCD各有18,000-20,000名学生，理科班级人数为24-36人，以及大量代表不足的少数族裔学生(HFC的46%，WCCCD的80%)。这两所学院将为我们的学者提供几门课程，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个导师7-20年，导师是因为他们出色的教学而被选中的。我们建议的亮点和独特之处包括：研究和教学导师的杰出记录；我们的学者评估和遴选过程；我们预计将对学生的发展轨迹产生巨大影响的不同背景的大学生；项目监督；机构承诺已经允许招聘两名密歇根IRACDA学者；充分参与著名的密歇根大学学习与教学研究中心，为学者和他们的教学导师提供培训模块和机会；以及机构支持，为来自HFC和WCCCD的最多20名学生提供暑期研究奖学金。我们相信，我们的项目将成功培养新一代科学家教育工作者，使他们成为高效、成功的教职员工和导师，并将激励一批崭露头角的学生追求科学和工程事业。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 HC 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.