{"id":29102,"date":"2019-03-05T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2019-03-05T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:57:43","slug":"the-grad-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2019\/03\/05\/the-grad-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grad Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29108\" style=\"width: 1025px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29108 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"Timo\" width=\"1025\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB-364x243.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Grad_Mentor_WEB-1000x666.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timo Kuester, chemical engineering graduate student at URI, presents research at RI C-AIM&#8217;s annual symposium last April.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"type-intro\">This past summer, I was given the opportunity to mentor <strong>Andrew White<\/strong>, an undergraduate at the University of Rhode Island, as part of the SURF fellowship program.<\/p>\n<p>My research involves the development of novel detection methods for environmental pollutants in Narragansett Bay, and I am seeking to develop sensors as part of a larger network which would allow access to real-time environmental data. These sensors could be used as an early warning system for events such as algae blooms.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew supported this work by creating his own project, taking an approach we had tested in our lab and improving a device which was closer to being useful in the ocean. He got a chance to investigate a few potential deployment sites, and also design and 3D-print his own devices for continuous measurement operation, testing them with artificially polluted water.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was a great help for me, not only regarding our research, but also on a professional level. I already had some leadership experience from my commitment as the membership co-chair at Graduate Assistants United GAU, the local graduate assistant union. Guiding Andrew one-on-one instead of making decisions in a group setting where everything can be discussed beforehand was definitely the biggest challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Figuring out his work and communication style, and giving meaningful feedback was a steep, but extremely valuable learning experience for me. It also helped with structuring my own research as I had to coordinate Andrew\u2019s project as well as my own simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who is pursuing a doctorate in chemical engineering, I will help guide graduate students and others in the future. It was a great experience to practice my leadership skills in a working environment, and I am looking forward to working with another student during this summer\u2019s SURF program. I hope to impact their learning experience in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI&#8217;s Timo Kuester writes about his experiences as a SURF mentor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":29108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-winter-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29585,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions\/29585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}