Department of NSF Scholarship Program: Reaching Out to the Economically Disadvantaged

该项目旨在吸引不同种族的学生，包括种族多样化和代表性不足的少数民族，以及女性进入工程和工程技术专业。我们已经开发了一些方法来激励学生攻读学位课程，部分是通过向工程技术（电气、计算机和电信）和工程科学专业的学术上有天赋但经济上处于劣势的学生提供经济激励。该计划通过提供增强的支持结构来提高这些学生的保留率，并使学生成为技术工作队伍中成功的员工。支持是通过形成一个学习社区提供的，该社区由学生、各学科的教师顾问/导师和行业导师组成。

This project reaches out to attract a heterogeneous mix of students, including ethnically diverse and under-represented minorities, as well as women into engineering and engineering technology programs.We have developed methods for motivating students to pursue a degree program, in part, by offeringfinancial incentives to academically talented but economically disadvantaged students inEngineering Technology (Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunication) and EngineeringScience programs. The program increases retention rates of these students by providing enhanced support structures and prepares the students to be successful employees in the technical work force.The support is provided by forming a learning community comprised of students, faculty advisors/mentors from each discipline, and industry mentors.