Military Veterans Engineering Education Initiative Planning Grant

退伍军人工程教育计划规划补助金

• 批准号: 0958290
• 负责人: Donald Heller
• 金额: $ 19.97万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Military; Veterans; Engineering; Education; Initiative

The Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University will assess data available and identify if more is needed to design programs to ease the transition of military veterans into engineering disciplines. The results will help postsecondary institutions meet the unique needs of military veterans returning to or enrolling in college for the first time. Intellectual merit: The new Montgomery GI Bill for post-9/11 veterans is expected to bring an influx of former military personnel to the nation's college campuses. Many of these veterans will bring technical skills and expertise, and an interest in continuing their education in those fields. The proposed planning grant will catalog examples of programs already developed on some college campuses to serve veterans. It will also assess the data that are available from military and other sources to assist in implementing efforts to recruit and serve veterans. The project will also suggest designs for appropriate evaluation methodology for such program to serve veterans who study engineering. Broader impacts: While the primary focus of this planning grant is on data and evaluation of programs for veterans, the results will have implications for other populations of non-traditional students. Most military veterans returning to college have characteristics that are quite different from traditional students transitioning directly from high school to postsecondary education. Adult students returning to college to complete a first degree, or enrolling for the first time, share many of the characteristics of military veterans. Many have spouses or partners as well as dependent children, and juggle family responsibilities while enrolled in college. All bring with them to the campus skills and talents learned in the labor force, and are looking for ways to build on that existing expertise.

宾夕法尼亚州立大学高等教育研究中心将评估现有数据，并确定是否需要更多数据来设计项目，以简化退伍军人向工程学科的过渡。这一结果将帮助大专院校满足首次重返大学或进入大学的退伍军人的独特需求。智力优势：新的蒙哥马利退伍军人法案面向9/11事件后的退伍军人，预计将使大批退役军人涌入美国的大学校园。这些退伍军人中的许多人将带来技术技能和专业知识，以及在这些领域继续接受教育的兴趣。拟议的规划拨款将列出一些大学校园已经为退伍军人服务的项目的例子。它还将评估从军事和其他来源获得的数据，以协助执行招募和服务退伍军人的努力。该项目还将为此类项目提供适当的评估方法设计，以服务于学习工程学的退伍军人。更广泛的影响：虽然这项计划拨款的主要重点是退伍军人项目的数据和评估，但结果将对其他非传统学生群体产生影响。大多数退伍军人重返大学的特点与直接从高中过渡到高等教育的传统学生有很大不同。成人学生返回大学完成第一个学位，或者第一次入学，都有许多退伍军人的特点。许多人既有配偶或伴侣，也有受抚养的孩子，在上大学的同时还要承担家庭责任。所有人都把在劳动力中学到的技能和才华带到了校园，并正在寻找方法来发展现有的专业知识。