The Look College of Engineering Connects Program

Look 工程学院连接计划

• 批准号: 0324123
• 负责人: Cesar Malave
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0324123&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Look; College; Engineering; Connects; Program

The Texas A&M University CONNECTS Program hosts 96 incoming engineering students who are high achieving, low income, first generation to college. There are 32 CONNECTS students who receive NSF CSEMS scholarships. These students demonstrated the highest financial need. Other scholarships for students with less financial need come from foundations, industry, and personal donors. The broader impact in this project is how the program builds social capital for the students by providing connections to information not typically available to first generation, low income students attending college. Clustering them in the same engineering, math, and science courses and placing upper division peer teachers in the math and engineering courses provide these connections. These CONNECTS participants are also clustered in the same residence halls so they can study and form friendships with students with common academic goals. Additionally, connections are enhanced by faculty and industry mentors. These mentors provide academic excellence and leadership workshops. They also provide continuous feedback from the students to sources of assistance. The engineering course focuses on math reasoning, learning strategies, reflection, and understanding the value of engineering. Raised retention and learning increases are the determining factors that demonstrate success. The intellectual merit of this project is in how the program combines research from the TX LS AMP, Foundation Coalition, learning styles of females and under represented minorities, and uses the research to provide a model that is inclusive of all issues surrounding the retention and graduation of under served populations in STEM. The combination of interventions is the model of the future instead of single interventions.

德克萨斯州A M大学连接计划拥有96名即将入学的工程专业学生，他们是高成就，低收入，第一代大学生。有32名CONNECTS学生获得NSF CSEMS奖学金。这些学生表现出最高的经济需求。其他为经济需要较少的学生提供的奖学金来自基金会，行业和个人捐赠者。在这个项目中更广泛的影响是该计划如何建立社会资本，为学生提供连接到信息通常不提供给第一代，低收入的学生上大学。将他们聚集在相同的工程，数学和科学课程，并将上师同行教师在数学和工程课程提供这些连接。这些连接参与者也聚集在同一个霍尔斯这样他们就可以学习，并与具有共同学术目标的学生建立友谊。此外，教师和行业导师加强了联系。这些导师提供学术卓越和领导力讲习班。他们还不断向援助来源提供学生的反馈。工程课程侧重于数学推理，学习策略，反思和理解工程的价值。提高保留率和学习的增加是证明成功的决定性因素。该项目的智力价值在于该计划如何结合TX LS AMP，基金会联盟，女性和代表性不足的少数民族的学习方式的研究，并利用该研究提供一个模型，该模型包括围绕STEM服务不足人口的保留和毕业的所有问题。综合干预措施而不是单一干预措施是未来的模式。