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Mentoring Working Group First Session

Mentoring Working Group First Session. NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting March 18-19, 2010. Introductions. Group Leaders: Pamela Abshire & Scott Thede Group Scribe: Scott Thede Members: Rick Adrion Susan Larson Matt Cox Elizabeth Sklar Larry Hodges Baris Taskin

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Mentoring Working Group First Session

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  1. Mentoring Working Group First Session NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting March 18-19, 2010

  2. Introductions • Group Leaders: Pamela Abshire & Scott Thede • Group Scribe: Scott Thede • Members: Rick Adrion Susan Larson Matt Cox Elizabeth Sklar Larry Hodges Baris Taskin Sheila Humphreys Wes Uehara Jugal Kalita Joseph Urban Dulal Kar Sriram Vishwanath Nicholas Kraft Yu Zhang NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  3. Overview • Review status and history (briefly) • Provide mentoring ideas, collect materials for the PI community • Preview website • Work towards effective practices • Document ideas on PI website, implement at multiple sites • Evaluate practices over time NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  4. Mentoring Overview (1) • Mentoring in general • Mentorship training (i.e., guide for mentors and training procedures) • Menteeship training (i.e., guide for mentees) • Mentoring Events: • “A Day in the Life of a PhD Student” • “Women in Science” • Field trip to research university • Field trip to government labs • Field trip to industry NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  5. Mentoring Overview (2) • Helping the student on a daily/weekly basis • How much do you teach background material? For the specific research topic? • Who is a mentor? Who supervises the student? Faculty, grad student, ?? • How do you set the expectations and make them clear? • Building an intellectual community: journal club, “coffee talk” • Assessment of mentoring NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  6. Mentoring Overview (3) • Broadening awareness: collaborations with other colleges and countries • After-care: following up after the summer • International experience / study abroad • Information resources for study abroad • Network for questions • Academic career path • Long-term goal: collect and document effective practices NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  7. Research Overview (1) • How to create projects that are suitable for undergrad students? • How to follow up with students to get publications, continued connections (after the summer) • List of conferences supportive of UG research • List of resources for grad funding • How to structure the group • How to team up students and faculty • Teams vs individuals NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  8. Research Overview (2) • How to prepare the students for research, i.e. classes or instruction? • Educational materials geared towards REU participants: how to give a good research presentation, how to make a technical poster, how to write a research paper, how to read a research paper, how to prepare for an academic career, how to prepare for graduate school, workshop with librarians and introduction to tools, introduction to nature of research • Immerse REU students in the research environment (graduate students, other faculty, seminars, established projects, etc) • Provide students with rubric for evaluating performance in research NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  9. Research Overview (3) • Different considerations in different campus environments, i.e. undergrad vs research schools • Different expected outcomes – paper for UG conference, paper for int’l conference, reports, posters • Visits to grad institutions • Inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research • Interdisciplinary vs narrow theme for sites • Educational papers written by PIs about REUs • Collect and document best practices over time • Surveys for PIs to gather data on best practices, number of papers, technical posters, interdisciplinary projects etc NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  10. Today’s Agenda • Goals: Discuss ideas and how to transition to “best practices” • Review website and contributed ideas • Brainstorm more ideas • Begin to figure out pathway for ideas: how to advertise ideas, how to get them on the website in a way that’s useful to people, how to get ideas from one site working at another site, how to support implementation of ideas from other sites • Member suggestions? New directions? NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  11. Tomorrow’s Agenda • Goals: Continue and finalize new initiative planning • Continue discussion of pathway for ideas (how to advertise, how to present information in a way that’s useful, how to get ideas from one site working at another site, how to support implementation of ideas from other sites) • Polish up 2-3 sample ideas NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  12. Tomorrow’s Agenda (cont’d.) • Plan to consult with Assessment about assessing ideas and establishing best practices • How to evaluate success of ideas implemented at multiple sites • Define “best practice” • Define goals for the year • Determine member contributions • Establish meeting schedule NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

  13. Homework … • Pick one idea from Mentoring and one idea from another WG, read carefully tonight and provide feedback • Register on the CISE REU Sites Website! • http://www.cisereupi.org/ • http://www.cisereupi.org/wiki/Main_Page • http://www.cisereupi.org/wiki/Mentoring_Ideas NSF CISE REU Sites PI Meeting 2010

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