Scholarships to Enhance Southern New Jersey High-Tech Workforce

该奖学金，以加强南部新泽西高科技劳动力在罗文大学提供奖学金的学术才华的学生在经济需要谁是追求学士学位的工程。该项目是罗文工程学院五个工程系的多学科合作。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。计划在五年内共提供30个奖学金名额。该计划允许罗文提供奖学金，以直接解决国家关注的一个领域：在STEM相关领域接受培训的美国毕业生短缺。为学术上很强的工程专业学生提供奖学金，他们可能无法负担大学学费，这对准备帮助国家，地区和当地公司的工程专业毕业生的数量产生了影响。有才华的工程专业毕业生将直接影响南部新泽西的高科技劳动力，并帮助美国在全球经济中竞争和创新。这一努力，以提高南部新泽西高科技劳动力建立在罗文大学可用的资源。 该项目利用Rowan的工程学习社区（ELC）。ELC是仿照基于研究的生活和学习社区的最佳实践，已被证明可以提高学习成绩，保留和教育程度，特别是对一年级学生。ELC的学生追求他们的学术课程与混合的共同课程，涉及一个主题，概念，或共同的主题，同时生活在宿舍的保留部分在一起。ELC教职员工和高级ELC学生提供指导。评估和评价将深入了解学生奖学金，生活和学习社区，宿舍学生辅导/辅导和教师辅导/咨询的保留好处。从项目评估数据中获得的经验教训和有效做法将广泛传播给工程教育界，并有助于扩大有关此类成功奖学金项目的属性和做法的知识基础。

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.