EMSW21-MCTP: Colorado Advantage

MCTP：科罗拉多州优势计划将建立在系内和校园内现有计划和努力的基础上(例如SMART计划)。MCTP：科罗拉多州优势将通过积极与科罗拉多州多样性倡议合作，继续吸引大量未被充分代表的学生进入数学科学。来自NSF资助的MCTP的支持：科罗拉多优势将允许系制定和实施可持续发展战略，例如重新分配现有系资源的时间，与院长(工程和艺术与科学院长)和教务长合作获得额外资源，以及与有能力捐赠本科生奖学金的成功捐赠者合作。该系的17名教职员工强烈支持这项MCTP建议。这一建议的智力价值是将大量的本科生引入到研究的兴奋中，并激发他们进一步接受数学教育的兴趣。新闻部实现这一目标的能力可以从其上一次Vigre补助金的记录中推断出来，该补助金始于1999年，培训了54名本科生。MCTP：科罗拉多州优势计划的广泛影响包括：它将显著增加参加更高级数学课程的学生人数；有机会从事严肃的长期项目和研究项目的专业人数；从应用数学系毕业并为研究生院和科学工作做好充分准备的学生人数。此外，它通过创建本科生研究活动文化对大学其他本科生产生倍增效应，将对整个大学产生较长期的影响。另一个影响将是研究生和教职员工，他们在追求自己的职业生涯时，参与了这些关键的指导活动。最后，MCTP：科罗拉多州优势计划是一种模式，可以用于任何拥有研究生课程、致力于本科教育并有意愿转型的研究型大学。

The MCTP: Colorado Advantage proposal will build on existing programs and efforts within the department as well as on campus (e.g. SMART program). MCTP: Colorado Advantage will continue to attract numbers of underrepresented students to the mathematical sciences by actively collaborating with the Colorado Diversity Initiative. Support from NSF-funded MCTP: Colorado Advantage will allow the department to develop and implement strategies for sustainability, such as time for re-tasking existing department resources, working with the Deans (Engineering and Arts & Sciences Deans) and Provost to gain additional resources as well as working with successful donors capable of endowing undergraduate scholarships. The 17 faculty members in the department strongly endorse this MCTP proposal. The intellectual merit of this proposal is to introduce a large number of undergraduates to the excitement of research and to stimulate their interest in furthering their mathematical education. The ability of the Department to meet this objective can be inferred from its record with its previous VIGRE grant, which began in 1999, and trained 54 undergraduates. Among the broader impacts of the MCTP: Colorado Advantage program are that it will significantly increase the number of students who take more advanced mathematics courses; the number of majors who have the transformative opportunity of working on serious longer term projects and research projects; and the number of students who graduate from the Department of Applied Mathematics and are well prepared for graduate school and the scientific workforce. Further its multiplier effect on other undergraduates at the University through the creation of a culture of undergraduate research activity will have longer-term implications for the University as a whole. An additional impact will be on graduate students and faculty who become involved in these critical mentorship activities as they pursue their own careers. Finally, the MCTP: Colorado Advantage proposal is a model that can be used at any research university that has a graduate program, faculty committed to undergraduate education and a will to transform itself.