San Diego SERVICE (Success in Engineering for Recent Veterans through Internship and Career Experience) Program

这个工程教育研究项目寻求与两所当地社区学院合作，为圣地亚哥州立大学的退伍军人学生建立一个支持计划。服务项目的一个关键要素是为退伍军人完成工程学学位定义一条明确的途径。该计划旨在吸引行业合作伙伴，为退伍军人在整个大学生涯中提供实习机会。通过在退伍军人进入大学之前为他们提供数学课程，该项目试图将退伍军人在大学取得成功的一些主要障碍降至最低。这个项目更广泛的意义和重要性将是开发一种退伍军人广泛参与的模式，在大学期间招募和留住他们，并将他们过渡到工程职业生涯。如果该项目证明合作学校联盟能够通过有效利用实习计划成功地让退伍军人学生毕业，这一试点将成为其他大学-社区学院合作伙伴关系易于实施的模式。

This engineering education research project seeks to establish a support program for student veterans at San Diego State University in partnership with two local community colleges. A key element of the SERVICE project is to define a clear pathway for veterans to complete engineering degrees. The program seeks to engage industrial partners to offer internships to veterans throughout their college careers. By offering math courses to service members before they arrive at colleges, the project seeks to minimize some of the major hurdles to veterans' success in college. The broader significance and importance of this project will be to develop a model for broad participation of veterans that recruits and retains them in college and transitions them to engineering careers. Should the project demonstrate the coalition of partner schools is able to successfully transition student veterans to graduation via the effective use of internship programs, this pilot will serve as a model that can be readily implemented by other university - community college partnerships.