EEES: Engaging Early Engineering Students to Expand Numbers of Degree Recipients

EEES：吸引早期工程专业学生以扩大学位获得者的数量

• 批准号: 0757020
• 负责人: Thomas Wolff
• 金额: $ 249.99万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0757020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EEES; Engaging; Early; Engineering; Students

The project, a collaboration between Michigan State University and Lansing Community College, is developing programs to ease the transition of high school students into engineering undergraduate programs in order to increase the retention rate of these students. Close analysis of institutional statistics has revealed that key courses (early mathematics courses, first term physics, and a computational tools-for-problem-solving course) are pivotal in promoting retention. The project includes (a) a program to provide formative assessments in the key courses with follow-on "bootstrapping" tutorials, (b) a supplemental instruction program for the key courses that has proved to be effective at Lansing Community College, (c) a program to directly engage engineering faculty with early engineering students, and (d) a program to develop and exploit course material from one key course in another. The project goal is to increase the freshman-to-graduation success rate from its current value of 65% to at least 75%. Formal evaluation, with leadership from experts in the University's Institute of Public Policy and Social Research, is using institutional data, surveys of students and faculty members, focus groups and interviews of stakeholders, observations of project activities, and reviews of project materials and products. Instructional materials and approaches and evaluation results are being disseminated through website postings, conference presentations, and journal publications. Broader impacts include the dissemination of their materials and methods and assistance in the economic development of this region.

该项目由密歇根州立大学和兰辛社区学院合作，正在开发项目，以方便高中生过渡到工科本科生，以提高这些学生的保留率。对机构统计的仔细分析表明，关键课程(早期数学课程、第一学期物理课程和用于解决问题的计算工具课程)在促进留住方面起着关键作用。该项目包括：(A)在关键课程中提供形成性评估和后续的“自学”教程的方案；(B)在兰辛社区学院被证明是有效的关键课程的补充指导方案；(C)直接让工程学教师接触早期工程专业学生的方案；以及(D)从一个关键课程到另一个关键课程开发和利用课程材料的方案。该项目的目标是将新生到毕业的成功率从目前的65%提高到至少75%。在大学公共政策和社会研究所专家的领导下，正式评估使用了机构数据、对学生和教职员工的调查、焦点小组和对利益攸关方的采访、对项目活动的观察以及对项目材料和产品的审查。教学材料、方法和评价结果正通过网站张贴、会议报告和期刊出版物进行传播。更广泛的影响包括传播其材料和方法以及对该区域经济发展的援助。