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Title: Materials R&D-student internships

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/105134· OSTI ID:105134

This program has as an objective the conduct of programmatic research for the Advanced Industrial Concepts Materials Program while training minority graduate students in the process. Well-known demographics indicate that minorities will constitute an increasing fraction of our future work force. Consequently, efforts have been initiated to increase the fraction of minorities and women who choose technical career paths. Included are a wide ranging set of programs beginning with pre-school education, progressing through efforts to retain students in technical paths in grades K-12 and undergraduate education, and ending with encouraging graduate education. The Materials R & D - Student Internships is a unique approach in the latter category. Here, we have focused on a particular area of applied materials research, the Advanced Industrial Concepts Materials Program. Our goal, then, is to educate minority graduate students in the context of this program. The Ames Laboratory was selected as a site for this pilot project since it is a DOE national laboratory, located on the campus of a major research university, which includes in its research interests programs with a strong technological flavor.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
OSTI ID:
105134
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-12963; ON: DE95016129; TRN: 95:006492-0023
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Advanced Industrial Materials (AIM) Program. Annual progress report, FY 1994; Sorrell, C.A.; PB: 341 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English