Student Teams Engaging Peers for Undergraduate Progress (STEP-UP)

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。特别是，该项目团队将重点放在提高工程学院学生的保留率和毕业率上，特别强调为被确定为流失点的三门数学课程（微积分预科和微积分I和II）提供同伴主导的充实课程和辅导支持。其他举措包括加强同伴、教师和实践工程师的指导，实施学生跟踪计划，以便对困难的学生进行早期干预，并让一年级学生参与设计团队和专业活动，以加强他们与工程项目的联系。该项目的智力价值在于其多管齐下的方法，利用了STEM教育文献中的最佳实践，以及对数学干预的成功试点研究。更广泛的影响包括提高工程学生的成绩、留用和毕业，以进入本地和区域劳动力市场，以及评估和传播这些方法，作为其他类似规模和情况的机构采用的模式。

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. In particular, this project team is focusing on improving retention and graduation of students in its School of Engineering, with a particular emphasis on providing peer-led enrichment sessions and tutoring support for three mathematics courses (Pre-Calculus and Calculus I and II) identified as attrition points. Additional initiatives include enhanced mentoring by peers, faculty and practicing engineers, implementation of a student tracking program to allow early intervention for struggling students, and involving first-year students in design-team and professional activities to strengthen their connections to the engineering program. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its multi-pronged approach that leverages best practices from the STEM educational literature, as well as successful pilot studies of the mathematics interventions. The broader impacts comprise enhanced achievement, retention, and graduation of engineering students to enter the local and regional workforce, as well as assessment and dissemination of the approaches to serve as a model for other institutions of similar size and circumstances to adopt.