A Community of Young Scholars: Achieving Student Diversification and Retention in Mechanical Engineering

该项目向有学术天赋但经济困难的学生颁发奖学金，并支持学者确保他们的成功和最终毕业。招聘工作的目标是那些即将转到大学攻读机械工程学士学位的社区大学学生。对参与者的支持结构包括研究教员对学者的指导、跨学科工程研究研讨会和夏季研究机会。该计划的目标是招收、指导和毕业越来越多的机械工程专业学生，特别强调少数民族学生；将研究纳入本科教育经验；为学生提供就业和读研的机会；并正式确立马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校（UMBC）和马里兰州蒙哥马利社区学院之间的关系，以增加社区大学生转到马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校机械工程专业的人数。

This project is awarding scholarships to academically talented but financially needy students and is supporting the scholars to ensure their success and eventual graduation. Recruitment efforts are targeting community college students who are transferring to the university and seeking baccalaureate degrees in mechanical engineering. Support structures for participants include mentoring of scholars by research faculty, interdisciplinary engineering research seminars, and summer research opportunities. The goals of the program are to recruit, mentor and graduate increased numbers of students in mechanical engineering, with special emphasis on underrepresented minority students; to incorporate research in the undergraduate education experience; to provide students with opportunities to identify paths to employment and to graduate school; and to formalize a relationship between University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Montgomery Community College of Maryland to increase the number of community college students transferring to the mechanical engineering program at UMBC.