Engineering Excellence Awards for Low-Income Minority Students

低收入少数族裔学生工程卓越奖

• 批准号: 9987005
• 负责人: Raul Zapata
• 金额: $ 19.91万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9987005&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Excellence; Awards; Low; Income

The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, UPRM, is an institution with approximately 12,900 Hispanic students, located in the western municipality of Mayaguez in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is characterized by a productive track record of awarding baccalaureate degrees in SEM disciplines as evidenced by, on the average, 200 science and math degrees and more than 650 engineering degrees per year during the last five years. The Campus enrolls students with high academic credentials coming from both public and private schools, and from all economic levels.The primary goal of the 'Engineering Excellence Awards' is to enhance the educational opportunities for low-income, academically talented students through scholarships. This project is improving education for students in engineering, increasing retention of students, improving professional development and motivating participating students to pursue graduate studies, and strengthening partnerships between UPRM and related employment sectors. This goal is being achieved by (i) providing funds to selected students so that they can enroll and maintain full-time student status; (ii) requiring selected students to become tutors in gatekeeper courses, to participate in team-oriented design projects, or undergraduate research; (iii) creating a mentoring process to help selected students enhance their study skills necessary for academic achievement in engineering so that they may become more independent and better prepared to meet the UPRM's academic standards and also successfully attain their long-term educational goals. These activities are advancing students' discovery and understanding; promoting teaching, training, and learning; motivating students to pursue advanced engineering degrees; and broadening the participation of low-income, talented minority students in engineering.

波多黎各大学马亚圭兹分校位于波多黎各联邦西部的马亚圭斯市，是一所拥有约12 900名拉美裔学生的机构。它的特点是，在过去五年中，平均每年授予200个科学和数学学位以及650多个工程学位，证明了该学院在扫描电子显微镜学科授予学士学位的卓有成效的记录。该校招收来自公立和私立学校的高学历学生，以及来自各个经济阶层的学生。工程优秀奖的主要目标是通过奖学金增加低收入、有学术天赋的学生的教育机会。该项目正在改善对学生的工程学教育，增加留学生人数，改善专业发展，激励参与项目的学生攻读研究生课程，并加强UPRM与相关就业部门之间的伙伴关系。这一目标正在通过以下方式实现：(I)向被选中的学生提供资金，以便他们能够注册并保持全日制学生身份；(Ii)要求被选中的学生成为看门人课程的导师，参加以团队为导向的设计项目或本科生研究；(Iii)创建指导程序，帮助被选中的学生提高他们在工程学方面取得学术成就所必需的学习技能，使他们变得更加独立，为达到UPRM的学术标准做好更好的准备，并成功地实现他们的长期教育目标。这些活动促进了学生的发现和理解；促进了教学、培训和学习；激励学生攻读高等工程学位；扩大了低收入、有才华的少数族裔学生对工程的参与。