Scholarships to Enhance Southern New Jersey High-Tech Workforce

罗文大学加强南新泽西高科技劳动力的奖学金为有经济需要的有学术天赋的学生提供奖学金，他们正在攻读工程学士学位。该项目是罗文工程学院五个工程系的多学科合作项目。奖学金计划支持符合经济需要和学术成绩标准的全日制学生。计划在五年期间共提供30个奖学金。该项目允许罗文提供奖学金，直接解决全国关注的一个领域：在STEM相关领域受过培训的美国毕业生短缺。为那些学习成绩优秀的工程专业学生提供奖学金，这些学生可能负担不起大学学费，这对准备帮助国家、地区和地方公司的工程专业毕业生的数量产生了影响。有才华的工程毕业生将直接影响新泽西州南部的高科技劳动力，并帮助美国在全球经济中竞争和创新。这项提高南新泽西高科技劳动力的努力建立在罗文大学现有资源的基础上。该项目利用了Rowan的工程学习社区（ELC）。ELC是模仿基于研究的生活和学习社区的最佳实践，这些实践已被证明可以提高学习成绩，保留率和教育程度，特别是对一年级学生。ELC学生在宿舍的预留区域内共同生活，学习涉及主题、概念或共同主题的混合联合课程。ELC教师和高级ELC学生提供指导。评估和评估将深入了解学生奖学金、生活和学习社区、宿舍学生指导/辅导和教师指导/建议的保留效益。从项目评估数据中获得的经验教训和有效的实践将广泛传播到工程教育界，并有助于扩大关于这类成功奖学金项目的属性和实践的知识库。

The Scholarships to Enhance Southern New Jersey High-Tech Workforce at Rowan University provides scholarships for academically talented students in financial need who are pursing bachelor's degrees in engineering. The project is a multidisciplinary collaboration of the five engineering departments of the College of Engineering at Rowan. The scholarship program supports full-time students who meet financial need and academic merit criteria. A total of 30 scholarships are planned over a five-year period. The program allows Rowan to offer scholarships to directly address an area of national concern: the shortage of US graduates trained in STEM related fields. Scholarships for academically strong engineering students, who may not otherwise be able to afford college, have an impact on the number of engineering graduates prepared to help national, regional, and local companies. Talented engineering graduates will directly impact the Southern New Jersey high-tech workforce and help the US to compete and innovate in a global economy. This effort to enhance the Southern New Jersey high-tech workforce builds on resources available at Rowan University. The project utilizes Rowan's Engineering Learning Community (ELC). The ELC is modeled after research-based best practices for living and learning communities, which have been shown to enhance academic achievement, retention and educational attainment, especially for first year students. The ELC students pursue their academic curriculum with a blended co-curriculum involving a theme, concept, or common subject matter while living together in a reserved part of a residence hall. ELC faculty members and upper-level ELC students provide mentoring. Assessment and evaluation will provide insight into the retention benefits of student scholarships, living and learning communities, in-dorm student mentoring/tutoring, and faculty mentoring/advising. Lessons learned and effective practices that emerge from the program evaluation data will be disseminated widely to the engineering education community and help enlarge the knowledge base regarding attributes and practices of successful scholarship programs of this type.