Native Hawaiians Towards Engineering Faculty Careers

Project Title: BROADENING PARTICIPATION OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY CAREERS
Investigators: Oceana Francis (PI), Scott Miller, Thanh Nguyen (co-PIs)
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Total Award Amount: $660,720
Total Award Period Covered: 11/01/2015 – 10/31/2019
Location of Project: University of Hawaii
Status: Completed
Students/Postdocs supported: Joshua Lelemia Irvine (PhD CEE), Mitch Kapena McLean (MS ME, John Allen, Advisor), Melia Iwamoto (PhD CEE, Phillip Ooi, Adviser)

Description: This research focuses on developing an integrated educational model for promoting Native Hawaiian (NH) graduate students toward academic careers. Two gaps are noticed in the current postgraduate education and academic career training: limited continuities of NH from undergraduate to graduate study and career development from PhD to faculty. The causes of these two gaps will be diagnosed and an academic career training model will be created.

Native Hawaiians in Engineering: A Path to the Professoriate:

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/58960/1/2018-Ngyuen-et-al-NH-in-Eng-CP.pdf