The AMC-NSF Career Scholarships in Engineering and Computer Science

克利夫兰州立大学（CSU）的先进制造中心（AMC）为来自CSU和三所社区学院的40名工程、工程技术和计算机科学专业的学生提供奖学金支持。AMC-NSF工程和计算机科学职业奖学金计划将招收15名社区大学副学士学位学生和25名科罗拉多州立大学工程、工程技术或计算机科学学士学位学生。招聘工作尤其力求增加上述目标专业中女性、少数民族和残疾人的人数。所有奖学金获得者都将在科罗拉多州立大学的先进制造中心（AMC）参加以应用为导向的工作体验，学年期间每周20小时，夏季40小时。AMC经验的一个独特之处在于它所赞助的工业项目是跨学科的、全周期的。工业公司带着真正的问题来到AMC，教职员工和学生共同努力，为这些问题创造解决方案。学生学习制造和技术工程，从一个想法的概念到产品或过程的完成。AMC学生的工作质量使AMC学生100%获得工作机会。这个奖学金项目有几个特点很突出。首先，通过将地区社区学院作为合作伙伴，鼓励可能止步于副学士学位水平的学生在四年制大学完成学业。其次，招收的非全日制科罗拉多州立大学学生获得了注册全日制的动力，从而提高了保留率和毕业率。第三，美国国家科学基金会2500美元的助学金将为有经济需要的转学生和兼职学生提供高达15400美元的经济资助；这是联邦投资的一个非常高的回报率。最后，参加实习作为接受奖学金的要求是科罗拉多州立大学的一项新做法，并且有可能包括其他科罗拉多州立大学的奖学金项目。克利夫兰地区的制造商也获得了通过先进制造中心实习学到的技术和管理技能的高素质毕业生。

Computer Science (31), Engineering - Engineering Technology (58), Engineering - Other (59) The Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) at Cleveland State University (CSU) is administering scholarship support to 40 engineering, engineering technology, and computer science students from CSU and three area community colleges. The AMC-NSF Career Scholarships in Engineering and Computer Science expects to graduate 15 community college students with an associate's degree and 25 CSU students with a bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, or computer science. Recruitment efforts are particularly seeking to increase the numbers of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in the targeted majors above. All scholarship recipients participate in an application-oriented work experience at CSU's Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) for 20 hours a week during the academic year and 40 hours during the summer. One of the unique features of the AMC experience is the cross-disciplinary, full-cycle nature of the industrial projects it sponsors. Industrial companies come to the AMC with real problems and faculty, staff, and students work together to create solutions for those problems. Students learn manufacturing and technological engineering from conception of an idea to completion of a product or process. The quality of work produced by the AMC students leads to 100% of AMC students receiving job offers. Several features of this scholarship program stand out. First, by including area community colleges as partners, students who may stop at the associate degree level are encouraged to finish their studies at a four-year institution. Second, the part-time CSU students recruited gain the incentive to enroll full-time, thus improving retention and time-to-graduation rates. Third, the NSF grant of $2,500 results in a financial package of up to $15,400 for transfer students and part-time students with financial need; this is a very high rate of return on the federal investment. Finally, participation in an internship as a requirement of scholarship acceptance is a new practice at CSU, and has the potential to encompass other CSU scholarship programs. Cleveland-area manufacturers are also gaining access to highly qualified graduates with technical and managerial skills learned through the Advanced Manufacturing Center internship.