NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships Program

为了促进具有国际竞争力的美国工程劳动力的发展，并更好地满足美国当前和未来的劳动力和教育需求，为计划完成工程学学士学位的学生设计了工程AA专业预科学位课程。在这一独特而创新的项目中，在学术上严格的全州通用工程必修课程被视为助理学士学位的选修学分，为学生在四年制院校攻读工程学高级课程做好了更好的准备。项目目标侧重于：改善学业准备，补充学术和学生支持服务，建立更高的保留率和就业率，并通过参与维持严格的学术课程，加强学院与工商界和其他高等教育机构的关系。在两年授权期结束前可能获得学位的经济条件较差但学业上有天赋的学生将受益于全日制学习、补充建议、以学习为中心的课程和教学、招聘/保留干预和基于行业的实习的奖学金。奖学金的分配如下：一年级35名(25名新生和15名返校学生)，二年级15名(所有返校学生)，共50名全日制学生攻读工程学预科助理学士学位。赠款支助的招聘活动将优先努力招募代表性不足的群体(例如，针对少数族裔人口较多地区的高中)。与其他高等教育机构以及工商界的合作将确保传播关于这一示范项目的信息将证明合作伙伴关系在研究和教育方面的重要性。

To facilitate the development of an internationally competitive U.S. engineering workforce and to better meet the current and future workforce and educational needs of the nation, a Pre-Major for Engineering A.A. Degree program has been designed for students who plan to complete a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. In this unique and innovative program, academically rigorous Statewide Common Course Prerequisites for engineering count as elective credits for the A.A. degree, better preparing the student for upper division study in engineering at a four-year institution. Project objectives focus on: improving academic preparation, supplementing academic and student support services, establishing higher retention and placement rates, and strengthening the institution's relationship with business and industry and other higher education institutions through their involvement in maintaining academically rigorous curriculum. Economically disadvantaged but academically talented students who are likely to receive their degree by the close of the two-year grant period will benefit from scholarships for full-time study, supplemental advisement, learning-centered curriculum and instruction, recruitment/retention intervention, and industry-based internships. Scholarships will be distributed as follows: 35 in Year One (25 new and 15 returning students) and 15 in Year Two (all returning students), for a total of 50 scholarship for full-time students pursuing the A.A. Pre-Major for Engineering. Grant-supported recruitment activities will prioritize efforts to recruit under-represented groups (e.g., targeting high schools in areas with high minority populations). Collaboration with other institutions of higher education and with business and industry will ensure that information disseminated about this model program will demonstrate the importance of partnerships in research and education.