Howard University Science, Engineering and Mathematics (HUSEM) Program

霍华德大学致力于建立一个协调STEM教育的基础设施，重点是培养能够在工程和科学界发挥领导作用的优秀毕业生。 通过NSF历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP），霍华德将形成一个协调，有凝聚力的STEM学者社区，从而增加各级STEM招生，特别强调学生的特殊素质。霍华德大学将为所有STEM学生提供一系列协调的多学科活动，这些活动将使学生通过一项名为霍华德大学科学，工程和数学计划（HUSEM）的计划接触科学和工程职业的文化，传统和奖励。 最终目标是留住这些学生在STEM学科，让他们毕业，并充分准备他们追求更高的学位（特别是博士学位）。在STEM领域。 所有STEM学生都可以参加HUSEM活动;然而，有些活动是专门为那些将被培养为直接进入博士学位的高能力学生设计的。程序.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;以及跨学科科学和工程新前沿单元课程。 这些计划将被整合以实现目标。智力优势：这些活动将增加代表性不足的毕业生的产量，他们对数学和科学有更强的基本理解，提高本科生准备水平，并有能力通过研究寻求新知识。 该计划和活动的目标都旨在解决这些智力挑战。更广泛的影响：这些活动将创造一种STEM文化，使学生有动力追求STEM高级学位和教授职位。 这种文化将产生科学家和工程师，他们对终身学习，领导技能和在多元文化，跨学科团队中工作的能力表示赞赏。 作为STEM领域非裔美国人博士生校园生产的全国领导者，以及继续获得STEM博士学位的黑人本科生的生产，霍华德是唯一能够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.