{"id":176052,"date":"2023-04-20T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=176052"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:52:59","slug":"stem-pathways-hawaii-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/20\/stem-pathways-hawaii-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating STEM<\/abbr> pathways, opportunities for students in Hawai\u02bbi, Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Professor Marvin Young provided an overview to more than 30 students at the University of Guam about the recently-established collaboration between UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, the University of Guam and and the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new partnership creating opportunities for students in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Guam was on display at an international conference hosted by the University of Guam.<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Department of Mechanical Engineering<\/a> Professor Marvin Young<\/strong> provided an overview to more than 30 students about the recently-established collaboration between UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, the University of Guam and and the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNSY<\/abbr>) and highlighted plans to include STEM<\/abbr> pathways as part of the collaboration.<\/p>\n

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Marvin Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The partnership was created to address a significant mechanical engineering shortfall at maintenance facilities in Guam and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. The collaboration provides a pathway for University of Guam students who successfully complete their first two years in engineering in Guam to transfer to UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa and enroll in the mechanical engineering program. The pathway also contains several opportunities for students to participate in co-op programs and gain valuable engineering shipyard specific experience while a student at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. Upon graduation, these students can be hired by PHNSY<\/abbr>, and after 2–3 years gaining shipyard knowledge\/experience, either remain at PHNSY<\/abbr> or transfer back home to the Guam maintenance facility.<\/p>\n

For many University of Guam students, this is a very attractive opportunity to return home to a challenging and relatively high paying career. PHNSY<\/abbr> benefits by creating a stable engineering workforce that is composed of many Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Guam engineers. The inclusion of STEM<\/abbr> into the collaboration pathway significantly increases the success of the collaboration.<\/p>\n

“It does this by moving the maintenance facilities employment pathways upstream to the K–12 levels,” Young said. “By developing STEM<\/abbr>-related programs for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Guam K–12 students, the pipeline of candidates that may attend UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa and University of Guam majoring in engineering would be significantly increased. By incorporating early introduction to the Guam and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> maintenance facilities, we significantly increase the interest in engineering by providing a pathway to a challenging and rewarding career at these maintenance facilities.”<\/p>\n

According to Young, consequently, stable shipyard engineering workforces will be created at Guam and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, which ultimately results in supporting Navy readiness at these forward maintenance facilities. Young and his team will be developing strategies to partner with established STEM<\/abbr> programs to introduce the shipyard pathway to K–12 students, as well as providing additional resources and assistance to help develop interest in STEM<\/abbr> careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers will develop strategies to partner with established STEM<\/abbr> programs to introduce the shipyard pathway to K–12 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[179,182,1466,1496,9],"class_list":["post-176052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176058,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176052\/revisions\/176058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}