Preparing Engineering Graduate Students for the 21st Century

加州大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）将通过其名为“为21世纪准备工程毕业生（PEGS 21）”的项目，提供一个协调的招聘、保留和劳动力发展战略计划，以增加具有最高专业水平的工程师进入劳动力市场的数量和多样性。该项目将在4年内提供15个奖学金，以吸引有学术天赋的低收入申请者进入加州大学戴维斯分校的工程研究生项目。努力从代表性不足的群体中招收学生，即第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数民族，有助于这个项目潜在的更广泛的影响。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院校招聘学生，其中许多院校都有大量的西班牙裔学生；招生前后的多层次辅导；群体发展和学术技能培训；劳动力准备指导；通过S-STEM奖学金基金，减少了助教或研究生研究预约的时间。预计PEGS 21将在四年内使低收入、有学术天赋的第一代工程研究生入学、毕业并最终进入劳动力市场的人数至少增加60人。他们的入学将为系统地确定现有的课程和课外策略是否有效地克服流动收入和第一代学生完成研究生学位的障碍提供机会。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人才第一代（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工程毕业生的劳动技能。(5)提供有关成功招聘、毕业和培养LIATFG学生进入21世纪劳动力的成功策略的知识体系。以第一代大学生获得研究生学位的文献为基础，PEGS 21将实施和调查一系列策略的影响，以克服追求和/或完成工程研究生学位的障碍，从而为扩大LIATFG学生参与高级工程学位课程的努力提供知识基础。

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.