Supporting Excellent Engineers (SEE)

密歇根州立大学工程学院的支持优秀工程师（SEE）项目将建立一个财务、学术和社会支持结构，以增加有经济需求的学术天才学生的留校和成功。该项目将提供奖学金资助，以减轻这些学生在二、三学年的经济负担。在这段关键时期，学生将从主要修读学院以外的课程，转向主要修读自己选择的工程学科课程。SEE学者将根据其第一年的学习成绩和经济需求进行选择，除了奖学金资金外，还将获得有针对性的学术和专业发展支持，旨在支持动机和归属感。目标是每位学者都能获得实习或合作教育经验，并且100%的学者都能坚持并从工程专业毕业。SEE的支持工作旨在帮助学生为他们的第一份工程工作做好准备，增强他们的归属感、工程认同感以及坚持和成功的动力。通过选择那些在第一年就有机会展示成功的学生，SEE的选拔过程将给有才华但准备不足的学生一个平等的机会，与那些有更强的K-12支持结构的同龄人竞争。该项目产生的数据将广泛适用于工程学院寻求最大限度地提高所有学生的保留率和成功的方法。SEE将在第二年和第三年为符合条件的学生提供每年8,000美元的奖励，并在拟议的工作期间支持四组9名学生。内部研究表明，二年级和三年级学生对工程学院的归属感明显较低，对工程的动机（如自我效能感和对工程的价值）较低，对工程学习的感知成本（努力、机会和心理）较高。本项目将使用调查和焦点小组访谈来衡量作为SEE学者对学生归属感和动机的影响（例如，自我效能感，价值，身份，感知成本），相对于其他同龄学生。SEE将提供以研究为基础的专业发展和社会队列规划，以帮助学生建立与工程学院和彼此之间的联系。SEE支持服务将与先前关于STEM持久性的研究和关于支持动机结构的心理学研究保持一致。收集的数据将为提高工科本科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.