Michigan Tech SSEED: Sustained Support to Ensure Engineering Degrees

该项目的第一个目标是提高学术上有才华的工程专业学生的高年级保留率，这些学生表现出最高的不完成学位的风险。工程专业风险最高的学生是代表性不足的妇女和少数民族。 第二个目标是改善妇女和少数民族进入工程研究生院的情况。 每年有35名有自然减员风险的大三和大四工程专业学生和5名一年级工程专业研究生获得奖学金支持。招聘对象是经济上有困难、有学术才能的妇女和少数民族。 本科生学者是根据学术价值和流失风险因素（经济需要，少数民族地位，第一代大学生，大学预科，校外工作和校园连通性）的组合选择的。研究生学者将根据学术成绩，经济需要和工程学代表性不足进行选择。学生支持服务包括一些专门设计的活动，其中一些是在现有项目的基础上进行扩展。活动包括一个学分的职业基础课程，导师机会和培训，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.