Professional and personal development in research experiences for undergraduates Conference Paper

abstract

• This paper describes how professional and personal development activities were incorporated into the first year of the NSF REU Site Grant, 'Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots for Search and Rescue Applications' (Quest). The REU targets women and minorities, populations which typically suffer from low self-confidence and esteem, limited teamwork skills, and a lack of understanding about the 'rules of the game.' This paper shows that these activities were relatively easy to arrange and administer, and did not appear to distract the students from learning more traditional technical and research skills. The evaluation of the first year indicates that the professional and personal development activities were at least as important to the future success of the students as the research exercises.

name of conference

• Proceedings Frontiers in Education 1997 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change

authors

• Murphy, Robin

published proceedings

• 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings

author list (cited authors)

• Murphy, R. R., & Martinez, J.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Murphy, RR||Martinez, J

publication date

• January 1997

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Frontiers in Education Conference  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/fie.1997.632680

start page

• 1378-1382 vol.3

end page

• 1382

volume

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fie.1997.632680