Scholarships to Encourage the Next Generation of Innovative iNtelligent Engaged Engineers to Reach Success (ENGINEERS) Program

通过鼓励下一代创新的智能参与型工程师取得成功，佛罗里达州墨西哥湾沿岸大学惠特克工程学院内的工程师项目为有明显经济需求的学术天赋的学生提供了机会，通过加强学术指导和根据他们自己的专业发展要求定制有意义的课外活动来扩大他们的教育经验。在该计划的头两年，参与者将获得丰富的学术支持、队列和计划活动、特定学科的指导，以及参与大学和佛罗里达西南地区工程学社区的更多机会。提供旨在提高技术写作技能、简历建设和有效学习的计划，以最大限度地提高每个参与者的成功机会。在项目的最后两年，根据他们的职业目标和抱负，每个学生都会联系一位导师，导师的专业知识与学生选择的职业道路一致(研究生教育、立即进入劳动力大军或创业)。每个学生在与项目工作人员和导师协商后，制定一项计划，其中包括一系列具体的、可衡量的、可实现的、现实的和及时的目标，以满足他们的职业发展需求。通过学期末与项目工作人员的文件夹审查以及与他们的导师定期安排的会议来评估进展情况。除了提高每个参与者的教育经验外，工程师计划还鼓励不同人群的公民参与。方案活动对学生群体的影响经过形成性和终结性评估，评估结果在学院、大学和国家一级广泛传播，以促进实施有针对性的课外活动的最佳做法，显著改善学生的教育体验。

By Encouraging the Next Generation of Innovative iNtelligent Engaged Engineers to Reach Success, the ENGINEERS program within the U. A. Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University gives academically talented students with demonstrated financial need the opportunity to augment their educational experience through enhanced academic mentoring and meaningful extracurricular activities tailored to their own requirements for professional development. In their first two years in the program, participants are provided with enriched academic support, cohort and programmatic activities, discipline specific mentoring, and additional opportunities to engage the engineering community within the University and the Southwest Florida region. Programs designed to improve technical writing skills, resume building, and effective learning are offered to maximize each participant's chances of success. In their last two year in the program, based on their career goals and aspirations, each student links with a mentor whose expertise is consistent with the student's chosen career path (post-graduate education, immediate entry into the work force or entrepreneurial endeavors). Each student, in consultation with the program staff and mentors, develops a plan that encompasses a series of specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely goals that fit their career development needs. Progress is assessed through end of the semester portfolio reviews with the program staff, as well as regularly scheduled meetings with their mentor.In addition to enhancing each participant's educational experience, the ENGINEERS program encourages civic engagement from the demographically diverse cohort. The impact of programmatic activities on the student cohorts undergoes formative and summative assessment with the findings broadly disseminated at the college, university, and national level to contribute to best practices for implementing targeted extracurricular activities that significantly enhance the student educational experiences.