NSF Scholars Program

该项目向工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学专业的高年级学生颁发奖学金。虽然申请将向所有寻求支持的人开放，但将向指定专业的所有上层拉美裔、非裔美国人和美洲原住民学生发送特殊邮件和联系，鼓励他们申请。这所大学是一所规模庞大的城市大学，服务于拉美裔美国人，是一所理工大学，人口多样化，主要是第一代大学生。在工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学方面，经济上处于不利地位的学生人数很多。针对拉美裔、非裔美国人和美洲原住民的完善、全面的保留计划为奖学金获得者提供必要的建议、指导、跟踪和职业发展支持，以缩短他们毕业的时间。两所学院的项目工作人员和教职员工的积极合作为学者提供了一个全面的支持系统。通过这一奖学金计划，获奖者有动力提高他们的课程安排效率，并得到及时的建议，让他们在安排剩余课程工作时做出明智的选择。行业合作伙伴积极参与简历批评、模拟面试、“行业之夜”和学者招待会，这些都有助于他们为工作做好准备。NSF学者会首先考虑校方行业合作伙伴的暑期工作安排。因此，NSF学者计划增加了经济困难学生减少在校期间工作时间的可能性，他们与学术顾问更密切的联系，以及他们与高科技雇主增加互动的可能性。因此，该计划应该会极大地增加高素质的CSEM学生及时毕业并准备好在行业中担任责任职位的可能性。

This project awards scholarships to upper- division students in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics. While the applications are to be open to all who seek the support, special mailings and contact is to be made to all upper-division Latino, African American, and Native American students in the designated majors, encouraging them to apply. The university is a large, urban, Hispanic-serving, polytechnic university with a diverse population of largely first-generation college students. The pool of economically disadvantaged under-represented students in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics is large. The well-established, comprehensive retention programs for Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans serve to provide the advising, mentoring, tracking, and professional development support so necessary to shorten the time to graduation for the scholarship recipients. The active collaboration among program staff and faculty in the two colleges provides a comprehensive support system for the scholars. Through this scholarship program, the recipients have an incentive to become more efficient in their course scheduling and they are given timely advising to make wise choices in structuring their remaining course work. The active involvement of industry partners in resume critiques, mock interviews, an "evening with industry," and a scholars reception all serve to increase their job readiness. The NSF Scholars receive first consideration for summer job placement from the campus' industry partners. Thus the NSF Scholars Program increases the likelihood that financially needy students decrease their hours worked while in school, that they have closer contact with their academic advisors, and that they have increased interaction with high tech employers. Therefore, the program should greatly increase the likelihood that highly qualified CSEM students graduate in a timely fashion and exit college ready to assume positions of responsibility in industry.