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

为马萨诸塞州东南部的工程和技术学生创造机会

• 批准号: 0220721
• 负责人: John Majkut
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Bristol Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0220721&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Access; Opportunity; Engineering; Technology

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.

该项目旨在提高非传统工程技术专业学生的毕业率和完成率。学生是根据学术成绩和经济需要标准挑选的。该计划的目的是缩小财政援助差距，增加任务时间，并支持选定的学者在两年内毕业副学士学位。一个具有广泛代表性的奖学金委员会正在形成;由教师，包括财政援助主任在内的行政人员和工业合作伙伴组成。申请人需要一份关于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服务，包括小班和学习社区方法，基于目标的发展咨询，大学成功研讨会，新生定向和实习，来维持获奖者完成学业。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的学者研讨会提供补充支持。工业合作伙伴提供指导和合作教育机会。工程和工程技术系提供职业和转学课程的副学士学位，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）。该计划正在招募和招收两批非传统工程和技术学生。该项目的项目学者来自该ATE项目以及该学院的其他工程项目。