STEM Talent Expansion via Applied Mathematics (STEAM)

步骤提案# 0653056通过应用数学（STEAM）扩展STEM人才摘要：该项目旨在招收更多的学生在该学院提供的所有科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域学习。这项名为“通过应用数学扩展STEM人才”（STEAM）的倡议正在为每个潜在的STEM专业带来改进的教学方法，并在STEM学科中建立一种研究文化。目标是帮助这些学生成功完成STEM学位。STEAM的智力价值在于认识到跨学科的应用数学可以作为一个有吸引力的专业导向科学课程的核心。应用数学的吸引力在于它对所有STEM专业的普遍适用性，以及应用数学中固有的分析、定量和计算技能的可移植性，几乎适用于任何职业。为了增加STEM毕业生的数量，强调应用数学有双重好处，一是解决了现有STEM学生的主要学术弱点，二是吸引了更多的潜在STEM学生，这些学生未能抓住STEM学位带来的许多职业机会。STEAM项目的目标是：a)增加即将入学的STEM学生人数，b)帮助他们克服数学和科学入门课程带来的早期成功障碍，以及c)培养他们在专业中利用他们通过STEM学习获得的技能和能力走向有回报的职业，从而增加STEM毕业生的数量。STEAM计划涵盖了STEM学生的整个学术经历，从招聘到专业预科课程，到专业申报，再到可能的本科研究，最后到毕业。STEAM正在与学院的探索研究所一起开发新的资源，通过校园参观、暑期项目和高级课程向地区高中推广。STEAM还与现有的CSI学生支持项目（新生街区编程、教师指导、荣誉学院和教师学院）合作，以吸引和留住广泛的潜在STEM专业学生。STEAM为学生提供奖学金支持，并为教师提供以应用数学为中心的课程和专业发展。STEAM的广泛影响是改进了所有数学和科学入门课程的教学方法的结果，这些课程包括STEM专业和CSI的许多其他专业，包括商业和教育。

ABSTRACT for STEP Proposal # 0653056 STEM Talent Expansion via Applied Mathematics (STEAM)CUNY College of Staten Island, PI Gail SimmonsThis project is engaged in an initiative to recruit more students as majors in all areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) offered by the college. The initiative, called the STEM Talent Expansion via Applied Mathematics (STEAM), is bringing improved pedgogy to every potential STEM major and is establishing a culture of research in the STEM disciplines. The goal is to assist these students in the successful completion of STEM degrees. The intellectual merit of STEAM lies in the recognition that interdisciplinary applied mathematics can be used as the core of an attractive professionally-oriented science curriculum. The appeal of applied mathematics lies in its universal applicability to all STEM majors and in the portability of the analytic, quantitative and computational skills inherent in applied mathematics to virtually any career. For the purpose of increasing the number of STEM graduates, emphasizing applied mathematic has the double benefit of addressing a major academic weakness of the existing STEM students and of appealing to a larger population of potential STEM students who fail to grasp the many career opportunities that grow out of a STEM degree. The goals of the STEAM project are to: a) increase the population of incoming STEM students, b) help them overcome the early hurdles to success that are presented by their introductory math and science courses, and c) nurture them in their majors toward rewarding careers that utilize the skills and abilities they have acquired through STEM study, leading to increased numbers of STEM graduates. The STEAM initiative spans the entire academic experience of a STEM student, from recruitment to pre-major course work, to declaration of a major, to possible undergraduate research and finally to graduation. Together with the Discovery Institute at the college, STEAM is developing new resources for outreach to area high schools through campus visits, summer programs, and advanced coursework. STEAM is also working with existing CSI student support programs (freshman block programming, faculty mentoring, Honors College and Teacher Academy) to engage and retain a broad spectrum of potential STEM majors. STEAM is providing scholarship support to students and providing faculty with curriculum and professional development centered on applied mathematics.The broader impact of STEAM is a result of the improved pedagogy in all of the introductory mathematics and science courses, courses taken by both STEM majors and many other majors at CSI, including business and education.