Who better to tell them than fellowship recipients from the Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) program?
My personal style of mentoring is based on the philosophy of Howard Adams and the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science ( GEM): A research assistant, whether graduate or undergraduate, is a colleague and should be treated as such.
Founded in 1976 and headquartered at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, the Consortium originally offered fellowships exclusively for master's degrees in engineering, but in 1990 GEM added awards for doctoral candidates in engineering and science.
More than 80% of GEM Fellows in engineering (87%percentt at the M.S. level) and 66% in science complete their degrees.
In modern, system-level microbial metabolic engineering, genome scale metabolic reconstructions (GEMs) are used to integrate and analyse large 'omics datasets as well as to evaluate designs in silico.
But engineering is a bit of a hidden gem.
The trainshed, considered an architectural gem and a marvel of engineering long after it was built, housed six tracks and had platforms long enough to accommodate fifteen-car passenger trains.
She worked 30 hours a week while earning her doctorate in electrical engineering as a full-time Graduate Engineering for Minorities (GEM) Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
One special aspect of such a research on genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs) for environmental release [21 23] dealt with the engineering of circuits for the containment of modified bacteria and their recombinant (trans genes.
Genome-scale models (GEMs) have been used for metabolic engineering to systematically manipulate E. coli strains to overproduce lycopene, lactic acid, ethanol, succinate, amino acids, and many other products including hydrogen and vanillin.
