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

低年级计算机科学、工程和数学学生的学术和专业发展：过渡到高年级、研究和 STEM 劳动力

• 批准号: 0807134
• 负责人: Armando Rodriguez
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0807134&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Academic; Professional; Development; Lower; Division

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.

智力优势。该项目每年向学术上有才华、经济上处于不利地位的低年级计算机科学、工程和数学（CSEM）学生，特别是妇女和代表性不足的少数民族提供32个奖学金。这些奖学金，加上完善的基础设施和以学生为中心的计划，利用导师社区，使选定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SUMS研究所（加强对数学和科学的理解）管理。SUMS的功能是：（1）从全州范围内招募和选择项目学生;（2）提供提高保留率的活动，通过完成学位支持学生的学术/专业发展，并为学生的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部门的工作，研究，研究生院和STEM劳动力。在以前和当前项目的基础上，计划活动旨在将低年级学生从S-STEM基金过渡到尖端的学生资助的研究项目。为此，10个NSF-LSAMP-WAESO和5个NASA空间赠款插槽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。 之前的CSEMS课程平均保留率超过87%，最近的高年级学生中有超过35%继续全日制研究生院-几乎是全国比率的两倍。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服务的连续性，明确支持大学的承诺，为所有学生提供高质量的教育。它还向学生介绍了跨越所有CSEM学科的令人兴奋的新研究发展，并鼓励他们获得技术研究生学位。