STEM Talent Expansion via Applied Mathematics (STEAM)

STEP提案#0653056通过应用数学（STEAM）扩展STEM人才的摘要史泰登岛CUNY学院，PI Gail SimmonsThis项目致力于在学院提供的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的所有领域招收更多的学生。这项名为“通过应用数学扩展STEM人才”（STEAM）的计划正在为每一个潜在的STEM专业带来更好的教育，并在STEM学科中建立一种研究文化。我们的目标是帮助这些学生顺利完成STEM学位。STEAM的智力价值在于认识到跨学科应用数学可以作为一个有吸引力的专业导向的科学课程的核心。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，定量和计算技能对几乎任何职业的可移植性。为了增加STEM毕业生的数量，强调应用数学具有双重好处，既可以解决现有STEM学生的主要学术弱点，又可以吸引更多未能抓住STEM学位所带来的许多职业机会的潜在STEM学生。STEAM项目的目标是：a）增加即将入学的STEM学生的人数，B）帮助他们克服他们的入门数学和科学课程所带来的成功的早期障碍，以及c）在他们的专业中培养他们，以奖励利用他们通过STEM学习获得的技能和能力的职业，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，从招聘到预科课程，到宣布专业，到可能的本科研究，最后到毕业。与发现研究所在学院一起，蒸汽正在开发新的资源，通过校园访问，暑期课程和先进的课程外展到地区高中。STEAM还与现有的CSI学生支持计划（新生块编程，教师辅导，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。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的更广泛影响是所有入门数学和科学课程的教学法改进的结果，STEM专业和CSI的许多其他专业都参加了课程，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.