Engineering Scholars Program (ESP)

在美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)计划的资助下，工程学者计划(ESP)正在为低收入学生提供支持，这些学生证明有经济需求，并在科罗拉多州西南部的刘易斯堡学院(FLC)取得成功的STEM学科。S-STEM Track 2项目为正在攻读物理和工程学士学位的外国语学院学生提供60个年度奖学金，每年最高可达10,000美元。ESP学者将受益于FLC丰富的支持服务生态系统。此外，这些有才华的低收入学生将获得直接的经济支持，让他们停止工作，专注于学习。这一奖项的意义在于，FLC在全国非部落文科院校招收的美国原住民学生比例最高，它授予美国原住民学生的STEM学位比美国任何其他文凭院校都多。这些学者很可能代表着国家美洲原住民工程和物理毕业生库中的一个重要成员，这个非常小的库。这个S-STEM Track 2项目有几个鲜明的特点，反映了它的智力优势和潜在的更广泛的影响。每名ESP学者将与一名教师导师合作，设定目标，确定必要的支持措施，并监测进展情况。奖学金的遴选是基于一种创新的两级制度，该制度在过去的奖学金项目中已经成功地进行了审查。ESP允许GPA低于3.0的学生，但根据替代标准展示学术天赋的学生，有机会证明自己。学生的表现受到严密监控。除了传统的学术支持活动(如近距离辅导、辅导等)，该项目还专注于高影响力的课外体验，如与教师的暑期研究、实习、专业发展和实地考察。研究人员将研究该项目的高影响力体验和两级选择过程，为STEM教育知识库提供宝贵的贡献，了解这些干预措施对FLC低收入、有学术天赋的学生获得学位的各种影响。研究结果不仅将由主要研究人员及其合作者向地方和国家STEM教育界传播，而且还将通过学者在家乡的演讲向当地社区传播。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Engineering Scholars Program (ESP) is providing support to low-income students with demonstrated financial need and academic promise to succeed in STEM disciplines at Fort Lewis College (FLC) in Southwest Colorado. This S-STEM Track 2 project is funding 60 annual scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for FLC students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Physics and Engineering. The ESP scholars will benefit from a rich ecosystem of support services at FLC. In addition, these talented low-income students will receive direct financial support to allow them to stop working and focus on their studies. The significance of this award resides in the fact that FLC has the highest percentage of Native American students enrolled in a non-tribal liberal arts institution in the nation and it awards more STEM degrees to Native American students than any other baccalaureate institution in the United States. These scholars will likely represent a significant addition to the national pool of Native American Engineering and Physics graduates, which is extremely small.This S-STEM Track 2 project has several distinctive features which reflect its intellectual merit and potential for broader impacts. Each ESP scholar will work with a faculty mentor to set goals, identify required support measures and monitor progress. Scholar selection is based on an innovative two-tiered system that has been successfully vetted during past scholarship programs. The ESP allows students with GPAs less than 3.0, but who demonstrate academic talent based on alternate criteria, a chance to prove themselves. Student performance is closely monitored. In addition to traditional academic support activities (such as near-peer tutoring, tutoring, et cetera) the program focuses on extracurricular high-impact experiences like summer research with faculty, internships, professional development and field trips. Researchers will study the program's high impact experiences and the two-tiered selection process, providing a valuable contribution to the STEM education knowledge base about the various impacts of these interventions on degree attainment by low-income, academically talented students at FLC. Results will be disseminated not only by the principal investigators and their collaborators to local and national STEM education communities but also to local communities through presentations by scholars to their home towns.