Preparing Engineering Graduate Students for the 21st Century

通过其题为“准备工程研究生的学生为21世纪世纪（PEGS 21）”的项目，加州大学戴维斯分校（加州大学戴维斯分校）将提供招聘，保留和劳动力发展战略的协调计划，以增加进入劳动力的工程师的数量和多样性的专业知识的最高水平。 该计划将提供为期四年的15个奖学金，以吸引低收入的学术人才申请加州大学戴维斯分校的工程研究生课程。 从代表性不足的群体，即第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数群体中招收学生的努力，有助于该项目产生更广泛的潜在影响。 PEGS 21将有五个组成部分，包括课程和课外元素：通过招聘会有针对性地从加州机构招募学生，其中许多机构拥有大量的西班牙裔学生;在入学前和入学后阶段的多层次指导;队列发展和学术技能培训;劳动力准备指导;和减少时间承诺的助教或研究生研究任命由S-STEM奖学金基金成为可能。PEGS 21预计将增加低收入，学术人才，第一代工程研究生入学，毕业，并最终进入劳动力的人数至少有60名学生在四年内。 他们的入学将提供机会，系统地确定现有的课程和课外战略是否有效地克服了流动收入，第一代学生完成研究生学位的障碍。目标是：（1）增加申请工程研究生课程的学生人数，重点是低收入的学术天才第一代（LIATFG）学生，（2）通过提高提交的研究生申请的质量来提高LIATFG学生的录取率，（3）增加LIATFG学生完成工程研究生课程的人数，（4）加强LIATFG工程毕业生的劳动力技能，以及（5）有助于了解成功的招聘策略，毕业并为21世纪的劳动力做好准备。 建立在关于第一代大学生研究生学位获得的文献，PEGS 21将实施和调查一套策略的影响，以克服追求和/或完成工程研究生学位的障碍，从而有助于努力扩大LIATFG学生参与高级工程学位课程的知识基础。

Through its project entitled "Preparing Engineering Graduates Students for the 21st Century (PEGS 21)," the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) will provide a coordinated program of recruitment, retention and workforce development strategies to increase the number and diversity of engineers entering the workforce with the highest level of expertise. The program will provide fifteen scholarships for four years to attract low-income academically-talented applicants to engineering graduate programs at UC Davis. Efforts to recruit students from underrepresented groups, namely first-generation college students and underrepresented minorities, lend to the potential broader impacts of this project. PEGS 21 will have five components that include curricular and co-curricular elements: targeted recruitment of students from California institutions, many of which have large Hispanic student populations, through career fairs; multi-level mentoring at the pre- and post-enrollment stages; cohort development and academic skills training; workforce readiness guidance; and reduced time commitment for Teaching Assistant or Graduate Student Research appointments made possible by the S-STEM scholarship funds. PEGS 21 is expected to increase the number of low-income, academically talented, first generation engineering graduate students enrolling, graduating, and ultimately entering the workforce by at least sixty students over four years. Their enrollment will provide the opportunity to systematically determine if extant curricular and co-curricular strategies are effective in overcoming noted barriers to flow-income, first-generation students' graduate degree completion.The objectives are to: (1) increase the number of students applying to engineering graduate programs with an emphasis on low income academically talented first generation (LIATFG) students, (2) increase the admission rate of LIATFG students by improving the quality of submitted graduate applications, (3) increase the number of LIATFG students completing engineering graduate programs, (4) strengthen workforce skills of LIATFG engineering graduates, and (5) contribute to the body of knowledge about successful strategies to recruit, graduate and prepare LIATFG students for the 21st century workforce. Building on the literature regarding graduate degree attainment for first generation college students, PEGS 21 will implement and investigate the impact of a set of strategies for overcoming barriers to the pursuit and/or completion of graduate degrees in engineering, thereby contributing to the knowledge base of efforts to broaden the participation of LIATFG students in advanced engineering degree programs.