Special session - Attracting and supporting military veterans in engineering programs
Special session - Attracting and supporting military veterans in engineering programs
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特别会议 - 吸引和支持退伍军人参与工程项目
DOI：
10.1109/fie.2011.6142857
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2011
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D. Soldan
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作者：
S. Lord;K. Kramer;Rick T. Olson;M. Kasarda;D. Hayhurst;S. Rajala;R. Green;D. Soldan
9/11 后《退伍军人权利法案》彻底改革了退伍军人可获得的教育福利。此外，黄丝带计划使退伍军人更负担得起私立机构。因此，越来越多的退伍军人正在寻求本科学位，许多学校首次看到大量退伍军人。美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 认识到退伍军人工程师可以解决工程人员短缺的问题，并资助了开发模型的项目，帮助退伍军人从现役军人过渡到成功的学生。这次特别会议为几位获奖者提供了一个论坛，让他们描述他们的工作，并让更多的观众参与有关退伍军人工程教育的讨论。本次会议的目标是提高工程教育界对退伍军人工程学生面临的问题的认识，确定退伍军人从服役过渡到课堂时常见的问题，促进传播 NSF 支持的支持退伍军人工程项目的成果，提供一个论坛来分享与退伍军人成功从军队过渡到工程项目相关的最佳实践，并在学校之间建立具有服务退伍军人学生共同利益的关系。
The Post-9/11 GI Bill overhauled the educational benefits available to military veterans. Additionally, the Yellow Ribbon Program makes private institutions more affordable to veterans. Consequently, more veterans are seeking undergraduate degrees, and many schools are seeing significant numbers of veterans for the first time. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recognized that veteran engineers may address shortages in the engineering workforce and has funded projects to develop models for helping veterans make the transition from active duty to successful student. This special session provides a forum for several awardees to describe their work and to engage a larger audience in discussions about engineering education for veterans. The goals for this session are to raise awareness in the engineering education community about the issues facing veteran engineering students, identify issues commonly encountered as veterans transition from service to the classroom, promote the dissemination of results from NSF-supported efforts to support veterans in engineering programs, provide a forum for sharing best practices related to the successful transition of a veteran from the military to engineering programs, and establish relationships between schools with the shared interest of serving military veteran students.