ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program

加州州立大学富勒顿分校(CSUF)工程与计算机科学学院(ECS)是一所经认证并由联邦政府指定的拉美裔服务机构。该计划是建立一个奖学金计划，学术卓越催化剂(ACE)，通过该计划，ECS希望扭转其学生高流失率的历史遗产。在该计划的5年中，将向54名学生颁发奖学金。一个完善的学生服务网络将支持一批ACE学者，他们主修土木、环境、电气、机械、计算机工程和计算机科学。最佳做法研究支持的指导原则是，向最多的新生和大二学生提供4年的持续财政支持。该计划以学业上有前途但经济上处于不利地位的学生为目标，特别强调第一代大学生和在STEM领域代表性不足的学生。学者们将被安置在ACE中心，这是专门用于此类目的的工程大楼的办公室。超过国家科学基金资助期限的可持续性被纳入该模型。传播将在美国工程教育协会、全国多元文化工程计划倡导者协会和教育前沿等组织的会议上进行，希望其他机构可以采用和适应这种模式。

The College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University-Fullerton (CSUF) is an accredited and federally-designated Hispanic-serving institution. The plan is to establish a scholarship program, the Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE), by which ECS hopes to reverse its historical legacy of high student attrition. Over the 5 years of the program, scholarships will be awarded to 54 students. A well established network of student services will support cohorts of ACE scholars majoring in civil, environmental, electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering and computer science. The guiding principle as supported by research into best practices is to provide 4 years of continuous financial support, to the maximum number of incoming freshmen and sophomores. The program targets academically promising but economically disadvantaged students with special emphasis on first-generation college students and those underrepresented in STEM fields. Scholars will be housed at the ACE Center an office in the engineering building devoted exclusively for such purposes. Sustainability beyond the term of NSF funding is built into the model. Dissemination will occur at meetings of organizations such as the American Society of Engineering Education, the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates, and Frontiers in Education, in the hope that other institutions may adopt and adapt the model.