NSF Future Scholars Program

NSF未来学者计划将在2006年至2009年的四年期间颁发36个2,500美元的学年奖学金。这是在最大化工程潜力（MEP）的主持下成功的NSF未来学者计划的延续，该计划于2005年12月结束。新的NSF CSEMS项目允许该计划再持续四年。该方案的主要目标是：增加工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学专业毕业的经济困难学生的人数，包括代表性不足的少数民族和妇女;提高参与学生的教育成就和职业发展。 奖学金颁发给两批学生- 1）10个奖项给新生和大学生，2）26个奖项给高年级学生，主修工程，工程技术，计算机科学和数学。为大一和大二学生提供的奖项有助于学生在大学教育的关键前两年的过渡期，而为高年级学生提供的奖项则为他们在最后几年获得学位提供了经济援助。 更广泛的影响：这所大学是一所大型的，城市，西班牙裔服务，理工大学，主要是第一代大学生的多元化人口。在工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学领域，经济上处于不利地位、代表性不足的学生人数很多。Cal Poly Pomona在工程和科学学院为历史上代表性不足的学生提供强大，完善的保留计划，这些学生与NSF CSEMS学生合作。这些计划提供必要的咨询，指导，跟踪和专业发展支持，以保留，提高成就，缩短奖学金获得者的毕业时间。两所学院的项目工作人员和教师之间的积极合作为学者提供了全面的支持系统。 智力优势：通过这个奖学金计划，受助人有动力在他们的课程安排变得更有效率，得到及时的建议，在构建他们的课程工作做出明智的选择，并可以减少他们在学校工作的时间。行业积极参与学生专业发展活动，提高他们的工作准备，并优先考虑与行业合作伙伴安排暑期工作。

The NSF Future Scholars Program is awarding thirty-six $2,500 academic year scholarships for a four-year period from 2006-2009. This continues a successful NSF Future Scholars program under the auspices of Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP), which ends Dec. 2005. The new NSF CSEMS project allows the program to continue for another four-year period. The principal goals of the program are: to increase the number of financially disadvantaged students, including under represented minorities and women, who graduate in the fields of Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science and Mathematics; and to enhance the educational achievement and professional development of participating students. The scholarships are awarded to two cohorts of students- 1) ten awards to freshman and sophomores, and 2) twenty-six awards to upper-division students, majoring in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics. Awards for freshman and sophomore students help students in their transitional period during the crucial first two years of their college education, while awards to upper division students provide financial assistance to facilitate the final years toward a degree. Broader Impact: The university is a large, urban, Hispanic-serving, polytechnic university with a diverse population of largely first-generation college students. The pool of economically disadvantaged, under-represented students in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics is large. Cal Poly Pomona has strong, well-established retention programs in the Colleges of Engineering and Science for historically under-represented students which work with the NSF CSEMS students. These programs provide the advising, mentoring, tracking, and professional development support necessary to retain, enhance achievement, and shorten the time to graduation for the scholarship recipients. The active collaboration among program staff and faculty in the two colleges provides a comprehensive support system for the scholars. Intellectual Merit: Through this scholarship program, the recipients have an incentive to become more efficient in their course scheduling, are given timely advising to make wise choices in structuring their course work, and can reduce the hours they work while in school. The active involvement of industry in student professional development activities increases their job readiness, and gives them priority consideration for summer job placement with industry partners.