Engineering Practices with Impact Cohort (EPIC) Scholarship for High Achieving Women in Engineering

该项目提供奖学金，使伊丽莎白镇学院16名有学术天赋和经济困难的工程专业学生获得学士学位，并进入STEM劳动力市场。它的合作伙伴包括非营利组织“向前飞跃项目”（Project Forward Leap）、美国国家科学基金会（nsf）资助的“STEM- up PA”项目，该项目旨在促进女性在STEM学科领域的进步；它还与当地行业合作，创建了一个全面的项目，旨在招聘和提高学者的学术水平，并为向劳动力过渡提供指导支持。学者们通过诸如生活学习社区、重点指导和参与本科生研究等高影响力的实践得到支持。该项目通过对学者的直接支持和创建一个可以持续到未来的途径模式，在国家需要的领域产生了积极的影响。

This project provides scholarships to enable 16 academically talented and financially needy engineering students at Elizabethtown College to obtain baccalaureate degrees and enter the STEM workforce. It builds on partnerships with Project Forward Leap, a non-profit organization that supports educational achievement for students in inner city or underperforming school districts, with STEM-UP PA, an NSF-funded program that promotes advancement of women in STEM disciplines, and with local industries to create a comprehensive program for recruitment and academic enhancement of scholars, along with mentoring support for transition to the workforce. Scholars are supported through such high-impact practices as a living-learning community, focused mentoring, and participation in undergraduate research. The project is having a positive impact in an area of national need, both through direct support of scholars and by creating a pathway model that can be sustained into the future.