ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program

工程和计算机科学学院（ECS）在加州州立大学富勒顿（CSUF）是一个认可的和联邦指定的西班牙裔服务机构。 该计划是建立一个奖学金计划，卓越的学术催化剂（ACE），ECS希望通过它扭转其高学生流失的历史遗产。 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ACE学者在民用，环境，电气，机械和计算机工程和计算机科学专业的队列。 最佳做法研究所支持的指导原则是为最大数量的新生和新生提供4年持续的财政支持。 该计划针对学术上有前途但经济上处于弱势的学生，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，这是一个专门用于此类目的的工程大楼办公室。 超出NSF资助期限的可持续性已纳入该模型。 传播将发生在会议上的组织，如工程教育的美国社会，多元文化工程计划倡导者的国家协会，并在教育前沿，希望其他机构可以采用和适应的模式。

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.