ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program

加州州立大学富勒顿分校（CSUF）的工程与计算机科学学院（ECS）是一所经过认证和联邦政府指定的西班牙裔服务机构。该计划是建立一个奖学金项目，学术卓越催化剂（ACE）， ECS希望通过该项目扭转其高学生流失率的历史遗留问题。在5年的项目中，奖学金将颁发给54名学生。一个完善的学生服务网络将为土木、环境、电气、机械、计算机工程和计算机科学专业的ACE学者提供支持。通过对最佳实践的研究支持的指导原则是为最大数量的新生和大二新生提供4年的持续经济支持。该项目针对学术上有前途但经济条件较差的学生，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中心的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被构建到模型中。传播将在诸如美国工程教育学会、全国多元文化工程项目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调整该模式。

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.