Shamir, M., & Aguilar, J., & Cors, R., & Hansen, R. R., & Hendricks, N. P., & Hock, G. A., & Hutchinson, S. L., & Parameswaran, P., & Sanderson, M. R., & Derby, M. (2024, June), Insights from a Five-Year National Science Foundation Research Traineeship at our University: Program Description, Evaluation, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned   Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--47633

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  Shamir, M., \& Aguilar, J., \& Cors, R., \& Hansen, R. R., \& Hendricks, N. P., \& Hock, G. A., \& Hutchinson, S. L., \& Parameswaran, P., \& Sanderson, M. R., \& Derby, M. (2024, June), \emph{Insights from a Five-Year National Science Foundation Research Traineeship at our University: Program Description, Evaluation, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned }
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
  10.18260/1-2--47633

Mirit Shamir, Jonathan Aguilar, Rebecca Cors, Ryan Robert Hansen, Nathan P. Hendricks, Gaea A. Hock, Stacy L. Hutchinson, Prathap Parameswaran, Matthew R. Sanderson, and Melanie Derby.  "Insights from a Five-Year National Science Foundation Research Traineeship at our University: Program Description, Evaluation, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned ".  2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/47633 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_47633}
  Mirit Shamir, Jonathan Aguilar, Rebecca Cors, Ryan Robert Hansen, Nathan P. Hendricks, Gaea A. Hock, Stacy L. Hutchinson, Prathap Parameswaran, Matthew R. Sanderson, and Melanie Derby.
  "Insights from a Five-Year National Science Foundation Research Traineeship at our University: Program Description, Evaluation, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned ".
  \emph{2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/47633 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  - The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program at Kansas State University is dedicated to enhancing graduate STEM education through a comprehensive traineeship model that integrates an applied curriculum, interdisciplinary research, professional skills development, and mentoring. The NRT at our university has prepared graduate students in STEM, both master’s and doctoral students, to solve the grand challenges in the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) nexus in rural communities by investigating engineering and socioeconomic innovations to conserve water, create renewable energy, and help rural communities thrive. Since 2018, the NRT at our university has trained 40 diverse, culturally competent STEM leaders to do interdisciplinary work, and understand their potential vocational pathways, including government, academia, and industry.  

The NRT program at our university includes educational and experiential components. These components are field experiences, policy experiences at the state capital, applied course work, interdisciplinary research, faculty and peer mentoring, professional development, and periodic assessment of these components. The NRT organized three courses: a one-credit hour cross-listed course called Integrated FEW Systems, a two-credit hour cross-listed NRT Capstone, and a 0-credit NRT Seminar. In the Integrated FEW Systems course, students were introduced to systems thinking, with specific application to the FEW nexus in South West Kansas. The NRT Capstone is a project-based course that builds on knowledge students developed through the Integrated FEW Systems course. For their Capstone research, students worked in interdisciplinary teams to write a report, conference paper, or journal paper. The NRT Seminar consists of training sessions related to inclusion, career pathways, across campus resources, professional development, science communication, and exposure to FEW research initiatives. 

This paper will detail the graduate-level NRT traineeship educational and experiential components at our university including program description, summative evaluation, outcomes, and insights gained from our four NRT cohorts. Evaluation findings show that the NRT at our university is an inclusive, supportive, applied curriculum that enabled 40 graduate students to train as interdisciplinary thinkers and produce innovative interdisciplinary research. This paper may also be a guide to current and future NRT programs to help them pursue elements of the traineeship that are most effective. 

AU  - Mirit Shamir
AU  - Jonathan Aguilar
AU  - Rebecca Cors
AU  - Ryan Robert Hansen
AU  - Nathan P. Hendricks
AU  - Gaea A. Hock
AU  - Stacy L. Hutchinson
AU  - Prathap Parameswaran
AU  - Matthew R. Sanderson
AU  - Melanie Derby
CY  - Portland, Oregon
DA  - 2024/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Insights from a Five-Year National Science Foundation Research Traineeship at our University: Program Description, Evaluation, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned 
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/47633
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--47633
ER  -