Collaborative Research: Motivated Engineering Transfers - STEM Talent Expansion Program (METSTEP)

合作研究：有动力的工程转移 - STEM 人才扩展计划 (METSTEP)

• 批准号: 0856855
• 负责人: Clark Vangilder
• 金额: $ 9.4万
• 依托单位: Central Arizona College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0856855&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Motivated; Engineering; Transfers

The project is a collaborative effort between a four-year school (Arizona State University) and five non-metropolitan feeder schools (Arizona Western College, Central Arizona College, Cochise College, Eastern Arizona College, and Mohave Community College). The team is working to significantly increase the number of transfer students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, that graduate in engineering and computer science. In order to accomplish this, they are: 1) providing scholarships to students in the feeder schools and to transfer students at Arizona State University , 2) supporting student outreach activities at the feeder schools, 3) supporting engineering courses at the feeder schools by providing materials, tutoring, local engineering speakers, and tuition scholarships, 4) conducting "Be an Engineer" events at the feeder schools for both students and their parents, 5) providing classes, workshops, and seminars using live broadcast and videotape, 6) providing an engaged community of mentors with extensive experience and commitment for all students, 7) hosting an orientation at Arizona State University for engineering transfer students, 8) managing a center where engineering transfer students can study together and get the support needed to survive, and 9) working with transfer students through a time-tested "career shaping" academic scholarship workshop program. The project is building on an earlier successful program between Arizona State University and a set of metropolitan community colleges with similar goals. Evaluation efforts, involving formative and summative aspects, are being conducted by internal and external evaluators who are developing and monitoring indices for enrollment, persistence, and graduation. Broader impacts include the development and dissemination of models for collaboration between community colleges and four-year schools and the efforts to increase the number of women and minorities in engineering.

该项目是一所四年制学校（亚利桑那州立大学）和五所非大城市的支线学校（亚利桑那西部学院、亚利桑那中部学院、科奇斯学院、亚利桑那东部学院和莫哈维社区学院）之间的合作努力。该团队正在努力大幅增加工程和计算机科学专业毕业的转学生人数，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数民族学生。为了实现这一目标，它们是：1）向支线学校的学生和亚利桑那州立大学的转学生提供奖学金，2）支持支线学校的学生外联活动，3）通过提供材料、辅导、当地工程演讲者和学费奖学金来支持支线学校的工程课程，4）在附属学校为学生及其家长举办“成为一名工程师”活动，5）利用现场直播和录像带提供课程、讲习班和研讨会，6）为所有学生提供一个具有丰富经验和承诺的导师社区，7）在亚利桑那州州立大学为工程转学生举办一次定向，8）管理一个中心，工程转学生可以一起学习，并获得生存所需的支持，9）通过一个经过时间考验的“职业塑造”学术奖学金研讨会计划与转学生合作。该项目是建立在亚利桑那州州立大学和一系列具有类似目标的大都市社区学院之间的早期成功项目的基础上。内部和外部评估人员正在开展评估工作，包括形成性和总结性方面，他们正在制定和监测入学、坚持和毕业指数。更广泛的影响包括开发和传播社区学院和四年制学校之间的合作模式，以及努力增加工程专业的妇女和少数民族人数。