An Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of Academically Talented Low Income Engineering Students

该奖学金为科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）项目在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥（UIC）旨在解决低收入天才学生和高收入天才学生在工程毕业率的高差异。 该项目通过招募低收入的学术天才学生参加各种支助结构和机会，包括有保障的实习机会，努力提高这一人口中学生的成功率，并提供将支助30名学生的奖学金。一个重要的结果是每个学者在毕业后6个月内找到一份工程工作或STEM研究生课程。 该方法包括在第一个秋季学期之前的夏桥计划，该计划将每位学者与教师导师和学生大使配对，并在工程学院（COE）研究实验室或100多家公司中的一家进行有保证的带薪实习。定性和定量研究支持确定该计划如何影响学生的工程身份和他们的保留和毕业的目标。项目团队包括各个工程学科，工程教育和跨学科社会科学的教师。 为了提高UIC COE其他学生的教育成果，并为全国其他工程项目提供服务，项目成果将通过通讯，期刊出版物，专业会议和专用网站在当地和全国范围内传播。

This Scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) seeks to address the high discrepancy in graduation rates of low-income talented students and high-income talented students in Engineering. By recruiting low-income academically talented students to participate in various support structures and opportunities, including a guaranteed internship, the project endeavors to improve student success among this population with scholarships that will support 30 students. An important outcome is for each scholar to find an engineering job or a STEM graduate program within 6 months of graduation. The approach includes a Summer Bridge Program before the first Fall semester, which pairs each scholar with a faculty mentor and a student ambassador, and a guaranteed paid internship in a College of Engineering (COE) research lab or one of more than 100 companies. Qualitative and quantitative studies support the goal of determining how the program affects the students' engineering identities and their retention and graduation. The project team includes faculty in the various engineering disciplines, engineering education, and interdisciplinary social sciences. To improve the educational outcomes of other students in the UIC COE and to serve other engineering programs in the nation, the project results will be disseminated locally and nationally via newsletters, journal publications, professional conferences, and a dedicated website.