Supporting Excellent Engineers (SEE)

密歇根州立大学工程学院的支持优秀工程师（SEE）计划将建立一个财务，学术和社会支持结构，以提高具有经济需求的学术天才学生的保留率和成功率。该项目将提供奖学金，以减少这些学生在第二和第三学年的未满足的经济负担，这是一个关键时期，在此期间，学生从主要在学院以外的课程过渡到主要在他们选择的工程学科课程。SEE学者将根据他们第一年的学习成绩和经济需求进行选择，沿着奖学金，将获得旨在支持动机和归属感的有针对性的学术和专业发展支持。我们的目标是让每个学者获得实习或合作教育经验，并让100%的学者坚持并从工程专业毕业。SEE的支持工作旨在为学生的第一份工程工作做好准备，并增强他们的归属感，工程身份和坚持和成功的动力。通过选择有机会在校园第一年展示成功的学生，SEE选拔过程将为有才华但准备不足的学生提供平等的机会，与拥有更强K-12支持结构的同龄人竞争。该项目产生的数据将广泛应用于工程学院寻求方法，以最大限度地提高所有学生的保留和成功。SEE将为符合条件的学生提供第二年和第三年每年8，000美元的奖励，并在拟议的工作期间支持四个9名学生的队列。内部研究表明，二年级和三年级的学生对工程学院的归属感明显较低，对工程的动机较低（例如，自我效能和工程价值），以及更高的感知成本（努力，机会和心理）与追求工程研究。这个项目将使用调查和焦点小组访谈来衡量作为一个SEE学者对学生的归属感和动机的影响（例如，自我效能感、价值、认同感、感知成本）。SEE将提供以研究为基础的专业发展和社会群体规划，以帮助学生建立与工程学院和彼此的联系。SEE支持服务将与之前对STEM持久性的研究和对支持动机的结构的心理学研究保持一致。收集的数据将为提高本科工程专业学生的保留率和毕业坚持性提供最佳支持策略。

The Supporting Excellent Engineers (SEE) program in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University will build a financial, academic, and social support structure to increase retention and success for academically talented students with demonstrated financial need. The project will provide scholarship funding to reduce the unmet financial burden for these students during their 2nd and 3rd academic years, a critical period during which students transition from taking courses mostly outside the College to taking mostly courses in their chosen engineering discipline. SEE scholars will be selected based on their first-year academic performance and their financial need and, along with the scholarship funding, will receive targeted academic and professional development support designed to support motivation and feelings of belonging. The goal will be for each scholar to obtain an internship or co-operative education experience and for 100% of scholars to persist and graduate from an engineering major. SEE support efforts will be designed to prepare students for their first engineering job and enhance their feelings of belonging, engineering identity, and motivation to persist and succeed. By selecting students who have had the opportunity to demonstrate success in their first year on campus, the SEE selection process will give talented but underprepared students an equal opportunity to compete with peers who had stronger K-12 support structures. The data generated by the project will be widely applicable to colleges of engineering seeking approaches to maximize retention and success for all students.SEE will support eligible students with awards of $8,000 per year for their 2nd and 3rd years, with support of four cohorts of nine students during the proposed work. Internal research indicates that second and third year students have significantly lower feelings of belonging to the College of Engineering, lower motivation in engineering (e.g., self-efficacy and value for engineering), and higher perceived costs (effort, opportunity, and psychological) associated with pursuing studies in engineering. This project will use surveys and focus group interviews to measure the effects of being a SEE scholar on students' feelings of belonging and motivation (e.g., self-efficacy, value, identity, perceived cost), relative to other peer students. SEE will provide research-based professional development and social cohort programming to assist students in building connections to the College of Engineering and one another. SEE support services will be aligned with prior research on STEM persistence and psychological research on structures that support motivation. Data collected will inform optimal support strategies in enhancing undergraduate engineering students' retention and persistence to graduation.