Creating Access and Opportunity for Engineering and Technology Students in Southeastern Massachusetts

该项目正在加强工程技术非传统专业学生的毕业率和毕业率。学生是根据学业成绩和经济需求标准进行选择的。该计划的目的是缩小财政援助缺口，增加任务时间，并支持选定学者在两年内完成副学士学位的毕业。一个具有广泛代表性的奖学金委员会正在形成；由教师、行政人员(包括财政援助署署长)和行业合作伙伴组成。申请需要一份教育和职业目标的个人陈述，以及至少一封推荐信。该计划旨在通过提供密集的支持性服务，包括小班和学习社区方法、基于目标的发展建议、大学成功研讨会、新的学生导向和实习，来支持获奖者完成学业。其他支持服务包括辅导和写作中心。奖学金计划使学院能够为辅导和每月学者研讨会提供补充支持。行业合作伙伴提供指导和合作教育机会。工程和工程技术部提供职业和转学计划的副学士学位，目前正在实施NSF高级技术教育项目，该项目建立了一个新的自动化制造课程和实验室(也称为计算机集成制造或CIM计划)。该项目正在招收两批工程和技术专业的非传统专业学生。这个项目的项目学者是从这个ATE项目以及学院的其他工程项目中挑选出来的。

This project is strengthening the completion and graduation rate of students who are non-traditional majors in engineering and technology. Students are being selected on academic merit and financial need criteria. The purpose of the program is to close the financial assistance gap, increase time on task, and support graduation for the associate degree for selected scholars within two years.A broadly representative Scholarship Committee is being formed; composed of faculty, administrative staff including the Director of Financial Aid, and industrial partners. Applications require a personal statement of educational and career goals and at least one letter of recommendation. This program aims to sustain award recipients to completion by providing intensive supportive services including small classes and a learning community approach, goal-based developmental advising, a college success seminar, a new student orientation, and internships. Other support services include tutoring and writing centers. The scholarship program enables the college to provide supplementary support for tutoring and monthly scholar seminars.Industrial partners provide mentoring and cooperative education opportunities. The Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology offers an associate degree in both career and transfer programs and is currently implementing an NSF Advanced Technological Education project, which establishes a new automated manufacturing curriculum and laboratory (also referred to as computer-integrated manufacturing or CIM program). This program is recruiting and enrolling two cohorts of non-traditional students for engineering and technology. Program scholars in this project are being drawn from this ATE project as well as from other engineering programs at the college.