Conference Session

Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

their overall success as aresearcher. We also created multiple opportunities for the students to develop relationships withtheir peers and build community through a myriad of social events. Social activities weredesigned to take place during off hours and on weekends to avoid conflicting with studentresearch.MethodsThe mentors identified research project ideas for the participants prior to them arriving oncampus. Students participated in professional development opportunities that were eitherintegrated into their research immersion or separate activities. The students participated in theseactivities multiple times per week including workshops to inform them about how to besuccessful in the application process and graduate school, ethics, and

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gurcan Comert; Zulfikar Berk, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis; Balaji Iyangar; Esmail M Abuhdima, Benedict college; Negash Begashaw, Benedict College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Labs and experiential learning

engaged in a set of lessons designed to help them develop neededtechnical and conceptual skills (mainly programming in Python and R). In addition, they participated inregular online workshops with topics including research and ethics, preparation of effective presentations,and graduate school application preparation. Table 2 summarizes the topics covered in the learningactivities and workshops undertaken by the participants. Table 2: Learning activity topics covered during the summer 2020 REU Program Group Field Skills/Concepts 1 Communications, Transportation 5G, mathematics, Matlab 2 Computer Science, Transportation