Leadership Development Program in Engineering and Technology

工程与技术领导力发展计划

• 批准号: 0966274
• 负责人: Bruce DeRuntz
• 金额: $ 59.76万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0966274&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Leadership; Development; Program; Engineering; Technology

The Leadership Development Program is modeled after a successful 3 year scholarship program that was funded by an alum for talented economically-disadvantaged transfer students seeking a Bachelor of Science degrees in engineering and technology. The program provided students with a monetary award, additional training and mentoring opportunities that prepared them for leadership roles in engineering. The program has proven to be a tremendous success with all six students of its first cohort graduating within two years of transferring to SIUC and securing fast-track careers. In continuing this model, applicants are chosen from Illinois' southern-most 11 community college districts. A total of twenty-nine recipients receive $9000 scholarships their junior and senior years. These scholarships remove economic barriers that would prohibit a largely first generation college student demographic from achieving a professional career, and improve the recruitment, retention, graduation rates, and job placement of these students. In particular, the project aims to achieve a three-year graduation rate (i.e., four and one half years after beginning at the community-college level) of at least ninety percent and become self-sustaining through corporate sponsors interested in developing a diverse engineering population. Support activities for scholarship recipients build upon the College of Engineering's many existing student support programs (i.e., peer mentoring, minority support programs, and tutoring). The intellectual merit of this project is the determination as to whether retention, graduation, and job placement rates of students attracted to engineering and technology can be increased by providing financial support and by implementing student support and leadership programs. The broader impact of the project is an increase in the breadth of social and economic backgrounds of students graduating in engineering and, thus, of prepared individuals entering the job market.

领导力发展计划仿照一项成功的三年奖学金计划，该计划由一位校友资助，专门为寻求工程和技术理学学士学位的有才华的经济困难转学生提供资助。该计划为学生提供金钱奖励、额外的培训和指导机会，为他们在工程领域担任领导角色做好准备。事实证明，该项目取得了巨大成功，首批六名学生在转学到 SIUC 并获得快速职业生涯后的两年内全部毕业。为了延续这一模式，申请者是从伊利诺伊州最南端的 11 个社区大学区中挑选出来的。共有 29 名获奖者在大三和大四获得了 9000 美元的奖学金。这些奖学金消除了阻碍第一代大学生实现职业生涯的经济障碍，并​​改善了这些学生的招聘、保留、毕业率和就业安置。特别是，该项目的目标是实现至少百分之九十的三年毕业率（即从社区大学开始四年半），并通过对培养多元化工程人员感兴趣的企业赞助商实现自我维持。奖学金获得者的支持活动建立在工程学院许多现有的学生支持计划（即同伴指导、少数族裔支持计划和辅导）的基础上。该项目的智力价值在于确定是否可以通过提供财政支持以及实施学生支持和领导力计划来提高工程和技术专业学生的保留率、毕业率和就业安置率。该项目更广泛的影响是扩大了工程专业毕业生的社会和经济背景的广度，从而扩大了准备进入就业市场的个人的社会和经济背景。