Scholarships for Preparing the Global Engineer for Tomorrow's Workforce

田纳西州立大学(TSU)GE-STEM项目的目标是创造一种环境，支持有学术天赋但经济上有需求的学生转变为全球工程师(GE)。该项目有三条学术途径，旨在为60名工科学生提供技术、专业和生活语言学习技能，以在未来的劳动力市场和竞争激烈的工程学研究生项目中取得成功。这些途径与国家工程院倡导的战略相一致：研究、保留、责任和准备。该项目正在创造一个协同环境，利用现有校园内专业发展项目的成功，以及TSU的六个联邦资助项目，专注于STEM学生的研究成功，并确保项目的可持续性。这种协同作用得到了由STEM资助项目的六名董事组成的顾问委员会的支持，该委员会分享最佳实践和交流想法，以提高STEM学生的招生率、留校率和毕业率，并得到田纳西州中部当地和地区的支持。GE-STEM项目为二年级和三年级的学生提供奖学金。GE-STEM学者通过全球经验完成正式的轮换研究或专业发展计划，以更好地为专业工程职业生涯做准备。专业发展计划为学生提供辅导、同伴辅导和大学前咨询的机会。参加专业发展计划的GE-STEM高级学者参与组织校园学术指导和辅导会议。参加可选研究项目的GE-STEM学者准备从事高级研究并报名参加竞争激烈的研究生教育项目。研究体验允许二年级和三年级的学生在最先进的设施中进行研究活动，主题包括纳米技术、车辆人体性能、可视化、传感器网络、材料科学和机器人。GE-STEM学者展示或发表他们的研究和专业发展经验，并通过语言能力或外国交流经验展示他们的全球学习。六西格玛方法使GE-STEM项目能够定量监测和控制学生的学业成就。

The goal of the GE-STEM program at Tennessee State University (TSU) is to create an environment that supports the transformation of academically talented, yet financially needy students into Global Engineers (GE). The program has three academic pathways designed to equip 60 engineering students with the technical, professional and life-language learning skills required to succeed in tomorrow's workforce and in competitive graduate engineering programs. These pathways are aligned with strategies advocated by the National Academy of Engineering: Research, Retention, Responsibility, and Readiness. The project is creating a synergistic environment that leverages the success of existing on-campus professional development programs, and TSU's six federally funded programs focused on STEM student research success and ensure the project's sustainability. This synergy is supported by an advisory board with six directors of the STEM funded projects to share best practices and interchange of ideas to increase STEM student recruitment, retention, and graduate rates, and with local and regional support of middle Tennessee. The GE-STEM project provides scholarships to students during their sophomore and junior years. GE-STEM scholars complete a formalized rotational research or professional development program through a global experience to better prepare for a professional engineering career. The professional development program provides students mentoring, peer-tutoring and pre-college counseling opportunities. Senior GE-STEM scholars who enroll in professional development programs are involved in organizing on-campus academic mentoring and tutoring sessions. GE-STEM scholars enrolled in the optional research programs are poised to engage in senior level research and enroll in competitive graduate educational programs. The research experience allows sophomore and junior level students to perform research activities in state-of-the-art facilities on topics such as nano-technology, vehicle human performance, visualization, sensor networking, material science and robotics. GE-STEM scholars present or publish their research and professional development experience and demonstrate their global learning via language competency or a foreign exchange experience. A Six-Sigma approach allows the GE-STEM project to monitor and control student academic success quantitatively.