Motivated Engineering Transfer Students (METS)

有动力的工程转学生（METS）

• 批准号: 0836050
• 负责人: Mary Anderson-Rowland
• 金额: --
• 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: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0836050&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Motivated; Engineering; Transfer; Students; METS

This exploratory project will form a partnership between Arizona State University?s (ASU?s) Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and three community colleges (CCs) across the state of Arizona. The program is designed to significantly increase the number of community college transfer students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, who graduate with B.S. degrees in engineering and computer science. Student populations to be targeted are high school and community college students enrolled in pre-calculus/calculus, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, and geology courses at Arizona CCs and their local high schools. The partners, Arizona Western, Central Arizona, and Cochise CCs have been selected because they possess a significant pool of untapped engineering talent, a high percentage of women and underrepresented minorities, and they have enthusiastically embraced the vision to reach out to students in an effort to attract them to exciting engineering careers. It is important to our future competitiveness to help stem the decrease of U.S. and permanent resident students earning engineering degrees. This project will impact university-CC interactions across the nation. It will also significantly improve our understanding of which interventions are most effective in encouraging CC students, including women and minority students, into engineering and transitioning them to a four-year engineering programs. Another result will be an exploration of how and to what extent university-CC-high school-parents collaborations impact these interventions. The outreach efforts will inform and encourage more undecided students to consider engineering. Moreover, the METS program, with its emphasis on research, will produce more engineers with a broadened view of engineering opportunities, including graduate school.

这个探索性的项目将形成亚利桑那州立大学？s（ASU？s）伊拉A.富尔顿工程学院和亚利桑那州的三所社区学院（CC）。该计划旨在显着增加社区学院转学生的数量，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数民族学生，他们以学士学位毕业。工程和计算机科学学位。目标学生群体是高中和社区大学的学生，他们在亚利桑那州CC及其当地高中就读微积分/微积分，工程，生物，化学，物理和地质课程。合作伙伴，亚利桑那州西部，亚利桑那州中部和科奇斯CC已被选中，因为他们拥有未开发的工程人才，高比例的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的显着池，他们热情地接受了接触学生的愿景，努力吸引他们到令人兴奋的工程职业生涯。这对我们未来的竞争力很重要，以帮助阻止美国和永久居民学生获得工程学位的减少。该项目将影响全国各地的大学CC互动。它还将显着提高我们的干预措施是最有效的鼓励CC学生，包括妇女和少数民族学生，进入工程和过渡到四年制工程课程的理解。另一个结果将是大学CC高中家长合作如何以及在多大程度上影响这些干预措施的探索。推广工作将通知和鼓励更多尚未决定的学生考虑工程。此外，METS计划，其重点是研究，将产生更多的工程师与工程机会，包括研究生院拓宽视野。