Access for Engineering Excellence

该项目通过项目和经济援助，帮助工程学院成绩优秀但不荣誉的学生，使他们在课程中表现更好，并将他们的成绩提高到荣誉水平。具体目标包括：提高中档（GPA 3.0-3.4）工程专业学生的学习技能和群体认同感；增加学生用于课程作业和特殊项目的时间，以扩大学生在工程方面的经验；并增加非部门工作经验的机会。获得荣誉学位的学生的优势包括优先安排课程，有资格选择学科荣誉，有资格获得深入的荣誉经历，如荣誉实习和高级荣誉论文研究项目。此外，GPA达到3.4的学生更容易找到工作，也更容易进入研究生课程。为了实现这些目标，该项目将提供财政奖学金援助，以减少与工作相关的工作量，提供学术支持计划，并提供更多的校外实习机会。预计每年约有50名学生参加，并在毕业后继续参加该计划。符合条件的学生包括所有年级和工程领域的本科生。此外，该项目是一个试点项目，产生初步数据，提交给工业赞助商，这些赞助商将被要求为一个有更多参与者的长期项目提供持续的运营支持。卓越工程项目的智力价值包括产生新的跟踪数据，评估经济援助和学术支持机制，以提高中等GPA学生的成绩，使这些学生有更多的机会获得丰富的本科经历，并为毕业后的就业和研究生学习提供更好的定位。拟议项目的更广泛影响是，更多受过良好教育的工程师进入工作场所或研究生院。此外，该项目的目标年级范围内的学生中有很多是女性和少数民族，这些群体培养出了更有准备的工程师。

This project assists students with good but not honors status in the College of Engineering through programs and financial aid to enable better performance in their coursework and improve their grade standing to honors status. Specific goals include: improve midrange (GPA 3.0-3.4) student study skills and sense of group identity for engineering majors; improve the amount of student time available for coursework and special projects that expand the student experience in engineering; and improve opportunities for off quarters work experiences. The advantages of students gaining honors status include priority scheduling of classes, eligibility for selection in discipline honoraries, and eligibility for in-depth honors experiences such as honors internships and senior honors thesis research projects. Furthermore, students graduating with GPA 3.4 are better positioned for job placement and entrance to graduate programs. To achieve the goals, the project is providing a combination of financial scholarship aid to reduce job related workload, academic support programs, and extended access to off quarter internships. Approximately 50 students are anticipated to participate annually, with continuation in the program through graduation. Eligible students include undergraduate students from all years and fields of engineering. In addition, this project is a pilot project generating preliminary data to present to industrial sponsors who will be solicited to provide ongoing operating support for a long term program with more participants. The intellectual merit of the Access for Engineering Excellence includes the generation of new tracking data on the assessment of financial aid and academic support mechanisms to improve grades of midrange GPA students and to enable these students with more opportunities for rich undergraduate experiences and better positioning for post-graduation job placement and graduate school. The broader impact of the proposed project is a higher number of better educated engineers entering the workplace or graduate school. Furthermore, the target grade range for students in the project is rich with women and minorities, producing better prepared engineers in these groups.