from the first-year cohort were contacted directly withthe mentorship opportunity. Many of the mentors from the first-year cohort continued theirparticipation in the Fellowship in the second year. Other University faculty and graduate studentswho were known to be conducting water resource related research by members of the GrandChallenges team were contacted personally to notify them of the opportunity for mentorship.Strategies for student recruitment into the Fellowship included printed advertisements, in-personpresentations, and targeted outreach through department email listservs. The printedadvertisement included information on who was eligible to apply with links to the onlineapplication, presented as both a QR code and a web link. The
perceive a lack of readiness as a barrier toparticipation. [3] Creating pathways for diverse and underrepresented undergraduate students to enterundergraduate research and continue to pursue graduate research is imperative to diversity theworkforce. Underrepresented minority students often value collaboration and helping people asimportant factors in their educational objectives and careers. [4] They may have a misperceptionthat science is an isolated field that does not engage in broader community interests. Involvingstudents in community-engaged learning projects allows them to see the social and economicaspects of science problems, exposes them to the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature ofscience, and can result in improved
environment require students to be equipped with a practicalunderstanding that often goes beyond the in-class knowledge. To that end, many universities haveactively collaborated with the industry, developed internship course in their curriculum, and evenmade internship a prerequisite for graduation. Internships programs in construction has been explored by a plethora of existing studies.These studies can mainly be categorized into three topics: introduction of the internship classstructure in a specific program, analysis of the role of internships on students learning, andevaluation of the effectiveness and outcomes of internship programs. For example, [2] provided athorough introduction of the internship program developed by the Building
, G. (2005, June). A Qualitative Investigation Of A First Year Engineering Service Learning Program. In 2005 Annual Conference (pp. 10-77). 12. Main, J. B., Johnson, B. N., Ramirez, N. M., Ebrahiminejad, H., Ohland, M. W., & Groll, E. A. (2020). A case for disaggregating engineering majors in engineering education research: The relationship between co- op participation and student academic outcomes. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(1), 170-185. 13. Raelin, J. A., Bailey, M., Hamann, J., Pendleton, L., Raelin, J., Reisberg, R., & Whitman, D. (2011). The effect of cooperative education on change in self-efficacy among undergraduate students: Introducing work self-efficacy
Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Navajo Technical University (NTU) as well as the Program Advisor for the Mathematics Program at NTU. His current research focuses on technology-enhanced active learning in college mathematics for tribal students. He works developing lessons and curriculum to promote students’ interests in learning mathematics. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses about mathematics. He received his doctoral degree in the Science, Technol- ogy, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Strand of Teaching Learning and Culture Program at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2014 under the mentoring of Dr. Judith Munter.Alice Carron, Blue Marble Institute of Space Science Alice Carron is a Science
, the proposed research has the potential to broaden participationin STEM by increasing engagement, retention, and graduation of underrepresented minorities.Second, in building SocioTechnical Learning capacity, the research will also contribute to newapproaches for community centered solutions that leverage cultural assets of underrepresentedstudents and consider alternative knowledges in collaborative technology design, development,and implementation. As students graduate and enter the workforce, they carry with them thecapacity to respond to human and societal dimensions of technology in daily practices.3. Conceptual FrameworkThe literature characterizes multiple separate flavors of social learning and techno-centriclearning in the context of