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

该项目得到STEP特别资助重点的支持，“毕业生10 K+”是美国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的捐款支持，以刺激大学和学院的综合行动，帮助增加每年新的学士学位数量。在未来十年内，工程和计算机科学的毕业生将增加1万人。这个特定项目的目的是显着提高锡拉丘兹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，该项目正在将本科生的经历重新塑造成一个更受欢迎的氛围，促进师生之间的互动和工程教育的最佳实践。特别是，该项目小组正专注于一个多管齐下的方法，以提高教学和学术咨询的质量，通过一系列的协同活动，包括：一个良好的支持教师发展计划，在工程教育的最佳实践;第一学期网关工程课程的完整重新设计与巴克内尔大学教师的帮助;在目标第一和第二年类的创新教学法的实施;在他们的建议实践指导教师和建立一个框架，在学术咨询质量的持续改进;和以前测试的第一年的学术支持和社区建设计划扩展到第二年。该项目有能力改变锡拉丘兹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。它的目的是满足国家需要毕业更多的工程师和计算机科学家谁将有助于推动美国经济，以及贡献创造性的解决方案，以技术挑战。对改善环境的重视预计将对所有学生产生积极影响，但对代表性不足的群体和妇女的学生尤其如此。此外，在创造制度变革的过程中，个别教师正在获得终身教学和咨询技能，可以通过他们的实践进行在锡拉丘兹大学或任何地方，他们可能是教师在未来。

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.