Academic and Professional Development for Lower Division Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Students: Transition to Upper Division, Research and the STEM Workforce

知识价值。该项目每年提供32个奖学金给有学术天赋但经济困难的计算机科学、工程和数学（CSEM）低年级学生，尤其是女性和少数族裔。这些奖学金与完善的基础设施和以学生为中心的项目一起，利用导师社区，使被选中的学生能够保持全日制入学并完成学位。该项目由该大学的sum研究所（加强对数学和科学的理解）管理。sum的功能是：(1)从全州招募和选择项目学生；(2)提供活动，提高学生的保留率，通过完成学位来支持学生的学术/专业发展，并为学生进入研究生院和未来就业做好准备。更广泛的影响。该计划有助于确保成功过渡到上级工作，研究，研究生院和STEM劳动力。在先前和当前项目的基础上，项目活动旨在将低年级学生从S-STEM基金转移到尖端的学生资助研究项目。为此，10个NSF-LSAMP-WAESO和5个NASA空间资助名额可用于导师指导的本科生研究项目。英特尔、Microchip和NASA提供技术指导。以前的cems项目平均保留率超过87%，其中超过35%的高年级学生将继续攻读全日制研究生院——几乎是全国比例的两倍。该项目正在扩大和加强为不同性别、种族、社会和经济背景的学生提供的连续服务，明确支持大学为所有学生提供高质量教育的承诺。它还向学生介绍了横跨所有CSEM学科的令人兴奋的新研究进展，并鼓励他们获得技术研究生学位。

Intellectual Merit. The project provides 32 scholarships per year to academically talented, financially disadvantaged lower-division computer science, engineering, and mathematics (CSEM) students, especially women and underrepresented minorities. These scholarships, together with a well-established infrastructure and student-centered programs, exploiting a community-of mentors, enable selected students to maintain full-time enrollment and achieve degree completion. The project is administered through the university's SUMS Institute (Strengthening Understanding of Mathematics and Science). The function of SUMS is to: (1) recruit and select program students from across the state; (2) provide activities that increase retention, support student academic/professional development through degree completion, and prepare students for graduate school and future employment. Broader Impacts. The program helps ensure a successful transition to upper-division work, research, graduate school, and the STEM workforce. Building on prior and current projects, program activities are designed to transition lower-division students from S-STEM funds to cutting-edge student-funded research projects. Toward this end, 10 NSF-LSAMP-WAESO and 5 NASA Space Grant slots are available for mentor-guided undergraduate research projects. Intel, Microchip, and NASA provide technical mentors. Prior CSEMS programs average over 87% retention with over 35% of recent upper-division students going on to graduate school full-time -- nearly double the national rate. The project is expanding and enhancing the continuum of services available to students of diverse gender, ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds, clearly supporting the university's commitment to provide a high quality education to all students. It also introduces students to exciting new research developments spanning all CSEM disciplines and encourages them to earn a technical graduate degree.