Preparing Engineering Graduate Students for the 21st Century

为 21 世纪培养工程研究生

• 批准号: 1565033
• 负责人: Colleen Bronner
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Engineering; Graduate; Students; 21st

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.

通过其标题为“为21世纪工程毕业生准备的学生（PEGS 21），加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）将提供协调的招聘，保留和劳动力发展策略的计划，以增加工程师的数量和多样性，以最高水平的专业知识进入劳动力。 该计划将在四年中提供15项奖学金，以吸引戴维斯分校工程研究生课程的低收入学术申请人。 努力从代表性不足的团体，即第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数民族中招募学生的努力，对该项目的潜在广泛影响有所帮助。 PEGS 21将有五个组成部分，其中包括课程和课外元素：来自加利福尼亚机构的有针对性招募学生，其中许多是通过职业博览会的大量西班牙裔学生群体；在注册前和注册后阶段进行多层次指导；队列发展和学术技能培训；劳动力准备指导；并减少了S-STEM奖学金基金使助教或研究生研究任命的时间承诺。 PEGS 21预计将增加至少六十名学生在四年内至少六十名学生入学，毕业，并最终进入劳动力的低收入，学术才华，第一代工程研究生的数量。 他们的入学率将为系统地确定现有的课程和课外策略是否有效地克服了著名的流量收入，第一代学生的研究生完成学位的障碍，这些目标是：（1）增加工程学的学生数量，并强调了一流的第一代学生（LIAT FARTIAT FARTATES FARTATS PERTATION（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（LIATF）（2）LIAT FARD（2）LIAT FARD（2）LIAT FARD（2）LIAT FARD（2）LIAT FARTIAS（2）LIAT FART（2）LIAT FARTIAS（2）。提交的研究生应用程序的质量，（3）增加完成工程研究生课程的LIATFG学生的数量，（4）增强LIATFG工程毕业生的劳动力技能，（5）（5）有助于有关成功招募，毕业和为LIATFG学生准备21世纪劳动力的成功策略的知识体系。 PEGS 21在有关第一代大学生的研究生学位学位的基础上，将实施和调查一组策略的影响，以克服追求和/或完成工程研究生学位的障碍和/或完成工程学的障碍，从而为LiatFG学生参与高级工程学课程的参与做出了贡献。