Product Lifecycle Management Scholarship Program

产品生命周期管理(PLM)奖学金项目旨在为奥克兰大学工业和系统工程或机械工程专业的32名学业上有天赋、经济上有困难的学生提供奖学金。学生学者接受PLM技术方面的特殊培训，使他们能够在未来工程实践所必需的新兴领域担任领导角色。学生们学到的技能正是重振密歇根州摇摇欲坠的经济、实现经济多元化和拓宽密歇根州经济所必需的技能。该计划的目标是让学生在四年内获得学士学位，为进入高科技劳动力大军或继续研究生水平做好准备。教师和女性工程师协会学生分会的成员与奥克兰学区、SWE底特律分会、Gear-Up计划、底特律地区大学预科工程计划和奥克兰大学公共学校学院密切合作，招收学生参加该计划。学生被组织成队列，并分配给教师和行业导师。行业导师帮助学生获得暑期实习机会。奥克兰的学术技能中心在头两年为个人辅导培训致力于该项目的导师。这一群体被鼓励参与专门组织的高级设计项目。研究教师和行业指导的效果正在推动奥克兰大学招聘、支持和留住工科学生的基本结构的变化，特别是代表不足的少数族裔。

The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Scholarship Program is to provide scholarships for 32 academically-talented, financially-challenged students in Industrial and Systems Engineering or Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University. Student scholars receive special training in PLM techniques, enabling them to assume leadership roles in an emerging field necessary to future engineering practice. Skills learned by the students are precisely those that are essential to revitalize, to diversify and to broaden Michigan's foundering economy. The goal of the program is to enable students to graduate in four years with a B.S. degree ready to enter the high technology workforce or continue on at the graduate level. Faculty, along with members of the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, work closely with the Oakland School district, SWE Detroit Section, Gear-Up Program, Detroit Area Pre College Engineering Program and Oakland University Public Schools Academy to recruit students into the program. Students are organized in cohorts and assigned faculty and industrial mentors. Industrial mentors assist the students in obtaining summer internships. Oakland's Academic Skills Center trains tutors dedicated to the program for individual tutoring during the first two years. The cohort is encouraged to participate in specially organized senior design projects.Studying the effects of faculty and industrial mentoring is driving changes in the fundamental structure of how Oakland University recruits, supports, and retains engineering students, especially under-represented minorities.