Implementation of a Pilot Program for Successfully Transitioning Veterans Entering STEM programs at Mississippi State University

这一工程教育研究项目寻求与密西西比女子学院合作，为密西西比州立大学的退伍军人建立一个招募和保留计划。该研究项目如果成功，将创建一套可移植的模块化课程，将退伍军人过渡到大学工程项目，并收集有关其有效性的数据。该项目的一个关键要素是将对学习偏好的研究纳入过渡模块的开发。这个项目的更广泛的意义和重要性将是开发经过测试的模块，其他机构和组织可以使用这些模块将退伍军人过渡到大学学位课程。这项研究工作与退伍军人组织和专业协会合作，采用最佳做法招收人数不足的学生。面向过渡学生的模块化课程可能带来的发现，将在处理退伍军人问题的组织中广泛适用。这项研究项目将增加完成工程学学位并准备填补工程工作或开始新的高科技企业的学生数量。

This engineering education research project seeks to establish a recruiting and retention program for veterans at Mississippi State University in partnership with the Mississippi College for Women. The research project, if successful, will create a portable, modular set of courses to transition veterans to college engineering programs and collect data on their effectiveness. A key element of this project is integrating research on learning preferences into the development of the transition modules. The broader significance and importance of this project will be to develop tested modules which other institutions and organizations can use to transition military veterans to college degree programs. The research effort partners with veterans organizations and professional associations to adopt best practices in recruiting under-represented students. The discoveries that may result from the modular courses to transition students will have broad applicability across organizations that deal with military veterans. This research project will enhance the number of students who complete engineering degrees and are ready to fill engineering jobs or start new high tech businesses.