Transforming Military Veterans Experiences in Engineering at Texas A&M University (AggiE-VETS)

该工程教育研究项目旨在创建退伍军人兴趣社区，在德克萨斯农工大学及其合作伙伴之间进行合作，以提高教育经验和攻读理学学士学位的退伍军人数量。 TAMU 的工程学位。 这些社区将使项目团队能够调查退伍军人面临的挑战，利用和整合现有的学生服务，并建立满足退伍军人需求的学术增强措施。 当地合作院校和军事基地将参与该项目。 该项目团队计划使用一种工业工程方法来整合经过验证的行动，这可以为大学在吸引和留住退伍军人以及这样做的一次性和经常性成本方面提供明确的经验教训。 该项目更广泛的意义和重要性是应用如何招募退役军事人员的经验教训来指导实践并增加工程领域的渠道。 该项目将对老学生进行访谈，以发现入学、保留和毕业的障碍；这种方法可以为一系列从业者提供有用的信息。 总体而言，对社会的主要好处是增加工程专业中代表性不足的学生群体的入学率以及增加工程专业学生的入学率。

This engineering education research project seeks to create veterans' communities of interest that collaborate across Texas A&M Univeristy and with its partners to enhance the educational experience and number of veterans pursuing B.S. engineering degrees at TAMU. These communities will enable the project team to investigate challenges for veteran students, leverage and integrate existing student services, and establish academic enhancements that meet the needs of veterans. Local partner colleges and military bases will participate in the project. The project team plans to use an industrial engineering approach of integrating proven actions, which may provide clear lessons to universities on attracting and retaining veterans as well as the one time and recurring costs of doing so. The broader significance and importance of this project is to apply the lessons on how to recruit military personnel who are leaving service to inform practice and increase the pipeline into engineering. The project will conduct interview of veteran students to discover barriers to enrollment, retention, and graduation; this approach could provide useful information to a range of practitioners. Overall, the main benefits to society are increasing the enrollment of under-represented student populations in engineering and increasing the enrollment of student in engineering.