Access for Engineering Excellence

获得卓越工程

• 批准号: 0422402
• 负责人: Bradley Clymer
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0422402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Access; Engineering; Excellence

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.

该项目通过项目和经济援助帮助学生在工程学院获得良好但不荣誉的地位，以使他们在课程中有更好的表现，并提高他们的成绩，以获得荣誉地位。具体目标包括：提高中档（GPA 3.0-3.4）学生的学习技能和工程专业的群体认同感;提高学生可用于课程作业和特殊项目的时间量，以扩大学生在工程方面的经验;并提高非宿舍工作经验的机会。学生获得荣誉地位的优势包括优先安排课程，有资格选择学科荣誉，并有资格获得深入的荣誉经验，如荣誉实习和高级荣誉论文研究项目。 此外，GPA 3.4毕业的学生更适合就业和进入研究生课程。为了实现这些目标，该项目提供了一系列的财政奖学金援助，以减少与工作相关的工作量，学术支持计划，并扩大了获得非季度实习的机会。预计每年约有50名学生参加，并继续参加该计划，直至毕业。 符合条件的学生包括来自所有年份和工程领域的本科生。 此外，该项目是一个试点项目，生成初步数据，提交给工业赞助商，他们将被邀请为更多参与者的长期计划提供持续的运营支持。卓越工程访问的智力价值包括生成新的跟踪数据，用于评估经济援助和学术支持机制，以提高中等GPA学生的成绩，并使这些学生有更多机会获得丰富的本科经验，并为毕业后的工作安排和研究生院提供更好的定位。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，该项目学生的目标年级范围内有很多妇女和少数民族，在这些群体中培养出准备更充分的工程师。