Transfer Initiative for Engineering Scholars (TIES) - Phase II

工程学者转学计划 (TIES) - 第二阶段

• 批准号: 1458632
• 负责人: Elliot Moore
• 金额: $ 62.1万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-15 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458632&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Transfer; Initiative; Engineering; Scholars; TIES

The Transfer Initiative for Engineering Scholars (TIES) project will increase opportunities for academically talented, 2- and 4- year students with financial need to transfer to programs in electrical or computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The PI team will retain many of the strategies that were used in a first implementation of TIES; however, these have been further refined and will move TIES to a best practices blueprint for recruiting and retaining these transfer students. This project will address two of the major challenges faced by academically gifted students who are strong candidates for admission: financial need and academic support. The target population for this effort will include students at community colleges, and 2- and 4- year institutions that serve underrepresented groups. Approximately 115 scholarships will be award to 33 students over the five-year grant period. The TIES support structure will enable these students to perform at or above the level of traditional students. Since many of the TIES scholars will maintain strong ties to their home institutions, they can serve as role models and help create a pipeline for community college graduates who want to attend Georgia Tech or other top engineering programs.The TIES program will be based on an analysis of successful paths taken by non-traditional students and generalizing them for a broader group of institutions. Using an approach and management team that have had success in a variety of outreach efforts for improving engineering enrollment and diversity, the PIs will build and expand upon those existing efforts to offer several support program options for such students and will include a mix of programs designed specifically for non-traditional junior-level transfers. Examination of these combinations of students and programs will advance the understanding of how to help non-traditional students. Several program details, such as active involvement with a cohesive student cohort and mentoring activities focused on research and career development, will keep students motivated to succeed. TIES will address important national and institutional concerns by providing financially limited students from 2- and 4- year colleges opportunities to graduate from a top-tier engineering school. This program will provide a best practices template for other departments and engineering schools that wish to recruit and graduate talented non-traditional students.

工程学者转移计划（TIES）项目将增加学术人才，2年和4年制学生的机会，这些学生有经济需要转移到格鲁吉亚理工学院的电气或计算机工程课程。PI团队将保留TIES第一次实施时使用的许多策略;然而，这些策略已被进一步完善，并将TIES移至招聘和留住这些转学生的最佳实践蓝图。这个项目将解决两个主要的挑战所面临的学术资优学生谁是强大的候选人入学：经济需要和学术支持。这项工作的目标人群将包括社区学院的学生，以及为代表性不足的群体服务的两年制和四年制机构的学生。 在五年的赠款期内，将向33名学生颁发大约115个奖学金。TIES支持结构将使这些学生能够达到或超过传统学生的水平。由于许多TIES奖学金获得者将与家乡院校保持紧密联系，因此他们可以作为榜样，帮助那些希望就读格鲁吉亚理工学院或其他顶尖工程项目的社区大学毕业生建立一个渠道。TIES计划将基于对非传统学生成功路径的分析，并将其推广到更广泛的院校。 使用的方法和管理团队，已经在各种推广工作，以提高工程招生和多样性的成功，PI将建立和扩大这些现有的努力，为这些学生提供几个支持计划的选择，并将包括专门为非传统的初级转学设计的计划组合。对这些学生和项目的组合进行检查将促进对如何帮助非传统学生的理解。一些计划细节，如积极参与有凝聚力的学生群体和指导活动，重点是研究和职业发展，将保持学生的动机取得成功。 TIES将通过为来自2年制和4年制大学的经济有限的学生提供从顶级工程学校毕业的机会来解决重要的国家和机构问题。该计划将为希望招募和毕业有才华的非传统学生的其他部门和工程学校提供最佳实践模板。