Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Scholarshops (SVIES) Program

位于加利福尼亚州圣何塞的圣何塞州立大学的国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)项目将为有学术天赋的学生提供奖学金和支持服务，这些学生正在攻读工程学研究生学位，并表现出经济上的需求。这个名为硅谷创新创业奖学金(SVIES)计划的项目将为工程学院的研究生提供了解创新和创业的机会，为他们提供促进创新的方法，并将他们与硅谷创新者和企业家作为导师进行配对。创业和创新是经济蓬勃发展的关键因素。这个项目将培养来自经济困难背景的工程学学生的创业技能。该计划将扩大有才华的低收入工程学学生的职业选择，否则他们可能不熟悉技术创业和创新的机会和方法。圣何塞州立大学(SJSU)硅谷创新创业奖学金计划的目标是提高美国生产推动经济增长的技术创新的能力。奖学金获得者将组成一个学习社区，共同学习硅谷成功的技术创新和企业家，并团队实践所学到的经验教训。在硅谷创新者和企业家以及七名上海州立大学工程学院教职员工的直接指导下，SVIES学者将发展他们的创新思维，获得创新和创业技能，并有机会将创新和创业纳入他们的职业计划。该项目将帮助来自低收入背景的有才华的工程学学生成为有效的科技企业家。评价和评估将侧重于衡量和记录与创新和创业精神相关的高水平能力的学习成果。这些成果包括：创新和创业的心态，对需求-想法-风险过程的知识，以及创新、创造和完善技术发明的能力；制定商业计划和启动新的商业冒险。从项目评估数据中得出的经验教训和最佳实践将广泛传播给工程教育界。

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at San Jose State University in San Jose, California will provide scholarships and support services to academically-talented students pursing graduate engineering degrees who demonstrate financial need. This project called the Silicon Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarships (SVIES) Program will provide graduate students of the College of Engineering with opportunities to learn about innovation and entrepreneurship, equips them with methods facilitating innovation, and matches them with Silicon Valley innovators and entrepreneurs as mentors. Entrepreneurship and innovation are critical factors in a thriving economy. This project will develop entrepreneurial skills in engineering students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. The program will expand the career options of talented low-income engineering students who may have otherwise been unfamiliar with opportunities and methods of technological entrepreneurism and innovation. The goal of the San Jose State University (SJSU) Silicon Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarships Program is to increase the nation's capacity to produce technological innovations that drive economic growth. The scholarship recipients will form a learning community and engage in joint study of successful Silicon Valley technological innovations and entrepreneurs and in team practice of the lessons learned. With direct mentoring from Silicon Valley innovators and entrepreneurs and seven SJSU College of Engineering faculty members, SVIES scholars will develop their innovation mindsets, acquire innovation and entrepreneurship skills, and have the opportunity to incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into their career plans. The project will help talented engineering students from low-income backgrounds to become effective technological entrepreneurs. Evaluation and assessment will focus on measuring and documenting learning outcomes in high-level competencies associated with innovation and entrepreneurism. These outcomes include: the mindset of innovation and entrepreneurship, knowledge of the need-idea-venture process, and ability to innovate, create and refine a technological invention; develop a business plan and launch a new business venture. Lessons learned and best practices that emerge from the program evaluation data will be disseminated widely to the engineering education community.