Howard University Science, Engineering and Mathematics (HUSEM) Program

霍华德大学致力于建立一个协调全校STEM教育的基础设施，重点培养能够在工程和科学界担任领导角色的高素质毕业生。通过NSF历史黑人学院和大学本科项目(HBCU-UP)，Howard将形成一个协调的、有凝聚力的STEM学者社区，从而增加STEM在各个级别的招生人数，并特别重视优秀学生。霍华德大学将通过一个名为霍华德大学科学、工程和数学项目(HUSEM)的项目，为所有STEM学生提供许多协调的、多学科的活动，这些活动将使学生接触到科学和工程职业的文化、传统和回报。最终目标是让这些学生留在STEM学科，让他们毕业，并为他们攻读高级学位(特别是博士学位)做好充分准备。在STEM字段中。所有STEM学生都可以参加HUSEM活动；但是，有些活动是专门为高能力学生设计的，他们将接受直接进入博士课程的培训。拟议的倡议将包括四项活动--杰出学者计划；本科生研究计划；资源保留中心；以及跨学科科学与工程新前沿模块课程。这些计划将整合起来，以实现这些目标。智力价值：这些活动将增加未被充分代表的毕业生的产量，他们对数学和科学有更强的基础理解，提高了本科准备水平，并有能力通过研究寻求新知识。该计划和活动的目标都是为了应对这些智力挑战。更广泛的影响：这些活动将创造一种STEM文化，培养出有动力攻读STEM高级学位并在该专业从事职业的学生。这种文化将培养出欣赏终身学习、领导技能和在多文化、跨学科团队中工作的科学家和工程师。作为在STEM领域培养非裔美国人博士和培养继续攻读STEM博士学位的黑人本科生方面的全国领导者，霍华德是唯一有能力创造这些更广泛影响的人。

Howard University is committed to establishing an infrastructure that coordinates STEM education campus-wide with a focus on producing graduates of excellent quality who can assume leadership roles in the engineering and scientific community. Through the NSF Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), Howard will form a coordinated, cohesive community of STEM scholars, thereby increasing STEM enrollment at all levels with a special emphasis on students of exceptional quality. Howard University will provide all STEM students with access to a number of coordinated, multidisciplinary activities that will expose the student to the culture, traditions and rewards of scientific and engineering careers through a program called Howard University Science, Engineering and Mathematics Program (HUSEM). The ultimate goal is to retain these students in STEM disciplines, to have them graduate and to adequately prepare them to pursue advanced degrees (particularly the Ph.D.) in STEM fields. All STEM students will have access to HUSEM activities; however, some activities are particularly designed for the high-ability student who will be groomed for direct entry to a Ph. D. program. The proposed initiative will consist of four activities - the Distinguished Scholars Program; the Undergraduate Research Program; the Resource Retention Center; and the Interdisciplinary New Frontiers in Science and Engineering Modular Course. These programs will be integrated to accomplish the goals. Intellectual Merit: The activities will increase the production of underrepresented graduates who have a stronger fundamental understanding of mathematics and science, an improved level of undergraduate preparation and the ability to seek new knowledge through research. The objectives of the program and activities are all aimed at addressing these intellectual challenges. Broader Impacts: The activities will create a STEM culture, which produces students motivated to pursue advanced degrees in STEM and careers in the professoriate. This culture will produce scientists and engineers who have an appreciation for lifelong learning, leadership skills and the ability to work in multicultural, interdisciplinary teams. As a national leader in the on-campus production of African American Ph.D.s in STEM fields and the production of Black undergraduates who go on to earn Ph.D.s in STEM, Howard is uniquely capable of creating these broader impacts.