Meeting the Graduate 10K+ Challenge: Enhancing the Climate for Persistence and Success in Engineering (ECliPSE)

该项目得到了STEP的特别资助重点“毕业生10K+”的支持，这是国家科学基金会的一项活动，部分由英特尔基金会和通用电气基金会捐赠，以刺激大学和学院的综合行动，帮助在未来十年中将工程和计算机科学专业的新学士学位毕业生的数量增加10,000。这个项目的目的是显著提高雪城大学工程和计算机科学专业第一年和第二年的保留率和毕业率。为此，该项目正在重塑本科体验，使其具有更友好的氛围，促进强大的师生互动和工程教育的最佳实践。项目团队特别关注多管齐下的方法，通过一系列协同活动来提高教学质量和学术建议，包括：在工程教育最佳实践中提供良好支持的教师发展计划；在巴克内尔大学教师的帮助下，完全重新设计了第一学期的门户工程课程；在一、二年级实施创新教学法；为教师的辅导工作提供指引，并建立持续改善辅导质素的架构；并将先前测试过的第一年的学术支持和社区建设项目延长到第二年。该项目有能力改变雪城大学的工程和计算机科学教育，并成为校园和其他大学其他STEM部门的典范。它的设计是为了满足国家需要更多的工程师和计算机科学家毕业，他们将有助于推动美国经济，并为技术挑战提供创造性的解决方案。对改善环境的重视预计将对所有学生产生积极影响，但对来自代表性不足群体和女性的学生尤其如此。此外，在创造制度变革的过程中，每位教师都在获得终身的教学和咨询技能，这些技能可以在雪城大学或未来任何可能成为教师的地方进行实践。

This project is being supported under a special funding focus for STEP, "Graduate 10K+," an activity of the National Science Foundation, supported in part by donations from the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation, to stimulate comprehensive action at universities and colleges to help increase the annual number of new B.S. graduates in engineering and computer science by 10,000 over the next decade. The aim of this particular project is to significantly increase 1st and 2nd year retention rates and graduation rates in engineering and computer science at Syracuse University. Towards this end the project is re-forming the undergraduate experience into one with a more welcoming climate, promoting strong faculty-student interactions and best practices in engineering education. In particular, the project team is focusing on a multi-pronged approach to improving the quality of instruction and academic advising through a synergistic series of activities including: a well-supported faculty development program in best practices in engineering education; the complete re-design of the first semester gateway engineering course with help from Bucknell University faculty; implementation of innovative pedagogy in target 1st and 2nd year classes; guidance for faculty in their advising practice and establishment of a framework for continuous quality improvement in academic advising; and extension of previously tested first year academic support and community building programs into the second year. This project has the capacity to transform engineering and computer science education at Syracuse University, and to serve as a model for other STEM departments on campus and at other universities. It is designed to meet the national need to graduate more engineers and computer scientists who will help to fuel the American economy, as well as contribute creative solutions to technological challenges. The emphasis on improving the climate is expected to have a positive impact on all students, but most especially on students from underrepresented groups and women. Furthermore, in the process of creating institutional change, the individual faculty members are gaining lifelong teaching and advising skills that can carry through their practice at Syracuse University or wherever they may be faculty in the future.