Michigan Tech SSEED: Sustained Support to Ensure Engineering Degrees

该项目的第一个目标是提高学业上有天赋的工程专业学生在高年级的留校率，这些学生最有可能无法完成学位。工程专业风险最高的学生是代表性不足的女性和少数族裔。第二个目标是改善工程研究生院对女性和少数族裔的招聘情况。每年有35名面临流失风险的大三和大四工程专业学生和5名一年级工程研究生获得奖学金支持。经济困难、有学术天赋的女性和少数族裔是招聘的目标。本科生学者的选择是基于学术成绩和流失风险因素（经济需要、少数民族身份、第一代大学生、大学前准备、校外工作和校园联系）的组合。研究生学者将根据学术成绩，经济需求和工程代表性不足来选择。学生支持服务包括一些特别设计的活动，其中一些是在现有项目的基础上扩展的。活动包括一学分的职业基础课程、指导机会和培训、专业发展研讨会、本科生研究机会和服务项目。

The first objective of the project is to improve the upper-division retention rates of academically talented engineering students who show the highest risk of not completing their degrees. The highest risk students in engineering are the underrepresented women and minorities. The second objective is to improve the recruitment of women and minorities to graduate school in engineering. Each year thirty-five junior and senior engineering students who are at-risk for attrition and five first-year graduate engineering students are receiving scholarship support. Financially needy, academically talented women and minorities are targeted for recruitment. Undergraduate student scholars are selected based on a combination of academic merit and attrition risk factors (financial need, minority status, first generation college student, pre-college preparation, off-campus work, and campus connectivity). Graduate student scholars will be selected based on academic merit, financial need, and underrepresentation in engineering.Student support services include a number of specially designed activities, several of which expand on existing programs. Activities include a one-credit Career Foundations course, mentorship opportunities and training, professional development seminars, undergraduate research opportunities, and service projects.