Preparing Engineering Graduate Students for the 21st Century

加州大学戴维斯分校(加州大学戴维斯分校)将通过其名为“为21世纪培养工程学毕业生(PEGS 21)”的项目，提供招聘、保留和劳动力发展战略的协调计划，以增加进入劳动力大军的拥有最高专业水平的工程师的数量和多样性。该计划将提供15个奖学金，为期4年，以吸引低收入、有学术天赋的申请者进入加州大学戴维斯分校的工程学研究生课程。从代表不足的群体，即第一代大学生和代表不足的少数民族中招收学生的努力，增加了该项目潜在的更广泛的影响。PEGS 21将包括五个组成部分，其中包括课程和联合课程元素：通过招聘会有针对性地从加州院校招聘学生，其中许多院校有大量拉美裔学生；在入学前和入学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；以及通过S-STEM奖学金基金减少教学助理或研究生研究任命的时间承诺。预计Pegs 21将在四年内将低收入、有学术天赋的第一代工程学研究生的注册、毕业和最终进入劳动力市场的学生数量增加至少60人。他们的入学将提供一个机会，系统地确定现有的课程和联合课程策略是否有效地克服了著名的流动障碍-收入，第一代学生的研究生学位完成。目标是：(1)增加申请工程研究生项目的学生数量，重点是低收入学术天赋的第一代(LIATFG)学生，(2)通过提高提交的毕业生申请质量来提高LIATFG学生的录取率，(3)增加LIATFG完成工程研究生课程的学生数量，(4)加强LIATFG工程毕业生的劳动力技能，以及(5)为LIATFG学生招收、毕业和为21世纪的劳动力做好准备的成功战略做出贡献。在有关第一代大学生获得研究生学位的文献的基础上，PEGS 21将实施和调查一套克服攻读和/或完成工程学研究生学位障碍的战略的影响，从而为扩大LIATFG学生参与高级工程学位课程的努力提供知识库。

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.