Strategic Plan to Enhance STEM Education and Research at AAMU

该“战略计划，以加强干教育和研究在AAMU”是一个创新的，全面的，重点突出的方法，以加强干教育在亚拉巴马农业和机械大学（AAMU）。我们将通过提高教育质量，指导学生提高STEM本科生的毕业率，提高工程毕业生的基础工程考试通过率，增加STEM学生的招聘和保留，扩大教师和学生的研究机会，加强本科STEM学生的现有STEM课程，为了实现我们的目标，我们建议为工程专业的学生开发一个辅导计划，以加强学生在STEM领域的基本技能，并为他们准备专业工程许可证考试，开发STEM-SI同伴辅导（补充教学）计划，开发一个夏桥计划，为即将入学的STEM学生做好准备，为STEM看门人课程开发一个夏季大二数学计划，通过创建一系列高级跨学科课程来加强STEM课程，扩大所有STEM相关学科的本科研究，组织一系列关于整合网络基础设施资源的教师发展研讨会，如视频播客和Facebook群组，并与高等教育机构和行业的著名学者一起举办STEM相关研讨会。我们的目标是减少低水平本科把关课程的流失，增加STEM领域入学和毕业的少数民族学生人数，学生参与基于交互式发现的本科生研究的增加，以及专业工程许可证考试通过率的提高。

The "Strategic Plan to Enhance STEM Education and Research at AAMU" is an innovative, comprehensive, and focused approach to strengthening STEM education at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU). We will implement the STEM Education and Research program by enhancing the quality of education, mentoring students to improve graduation rates of STEM undergraduates, improving the Fundamental Engineering Exam passing rates for engineering graduates, increasing the recruitment and retention of STEM students, expanding research opportunities for faculty and students, enhancing existing STEM curricula for undergraduate STEM students, and providing professional development for STEM faculty.To achieve our goals, we propose to develop a tutoring program for engineering students to strengthen students' basic skills in STEM areas and prepare them for the Professional Engineering License exam, develop a STEM-SI Peer Tutoring (Supplemental Instruction) program, develop a Summer Bridge Program to prepare incoming STEM students, develop a Summer Sophomore Mathematics Program for STEM Gatekeeper courses, enhance STEM curricula by creating a series of advanced interdisciplinary courses, expand undergraduate research in all STEM related disciplines, organize a set of faculty development workshops on the integration of cyberinfrastucture resources such as video podcasts and facebook groups, and provide STEM related seminars with prominent scholars from institutions of higher education and industry.We are aiming for a reduction of attrition in lower level undergraduate gate-keeping courses, an increase in the number of under-represented minority students matriculating in and graduating from STEM fields, an increase in student participation in interactive discovery based undergraduate research, and an increase in the passing rate of the Professional Engineering License exam.