The Role of International Students in Domestic Engineering Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention

国际学生在国内工程研究生招收和保留中的作用

• 批准号: 0934643
• 负责人: Maura Borrego
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934643&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; International; Students; Domestic; Engineering

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will employ researchers to develop a clearer understanding of the role that international students play in establishing the culture of a graduate engineering community, such as a department or research group, with particular emphasis on how this community affects domestic student recruitment and retention. Investigating the socialization of engineering graduate students in engineering communities that are internationally diverse compared to many undergraduate environments represents a major step in identifying a potential significant factor affecting domestic graduate student attrition. Understanding the factors that influence attrition will ultimately increase domestic undergraduate enrollment and retention in graduate programs. An advisory board of engineering graduate deans, a department head, and a graduate education researcher from four collaborating institutions will oversee the project and host a summit of 40 engineering graduate deans, department heads, faculty, and graduate students in 2011 in Washington, DC. Results from this research are likely to have a significant impact on understanding what universities can do to foster an environment that is conducive to increasing domestic participation in engineering Ph.D. programs. Increasing such participation will enhance the innovation potential of US universities and thus contribute directly to economic competitiveness.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项工程教育研究奖授予弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学，将聘请研究人员更清楚地了解国际学生在建立研究生工程社区（如部门或研究小组）文化方面所发挥的作用，特别强调这个社区如何影响国内学生的招聘和保留。调查的社会化工程研究生在工程社区，是国际上多样化的许多本科环境相比，在确定一个潜在的重要因素影响国内研究生流失的一个重要步骤。了解影响自然减员的因素将最终增加国内本科生的入学率和研究生课程的保留率。一个由工程系研究生院院长、一位系主任和一位来自四个合作机构的研究生教育研究员组成的咨询委员会将监督该项目，并于2011年在华盛顿举办一次由40位工程系研究生院院长、系主任、教师和研究生参加的峰会。这项研究的结果可能会对理解大学可以做些什么来营造一个有利于增加国内工程博士参与的环境产生重大影响。程序. 增加这种参与将增强美国大学的创新潜力，从而直接有助于经济竞争力。