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）正在为低收入家庭的学生提供支持，这些学生具有经济需求和学术承诺，可以在科罗拉多西南部的刘易斯堡学院（FLC）的STEM学科中取得成功。这个S-STEM轨道2项目每年为攻读物理和工程学士学位的FLC学生提供60个年度奖学金，每年高达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财政支持，使他们能够停止工作，专注于学业。 该奖项的意义在于，FLC拥有美国本土学生在全国非部落文科机构就读的比例最高，并且它授予美国本土学生的STEM学位比美国任何其他学士学位机构都多。这些学者可能会代表一个显着除了美国原住民工程和物理毕业生的国家池，这是非常小的。这个S-STEM轨道2项目有几个显着的特点，反映了其智力价值和更广泛的影响潜力。每个ESP学者将与教师导师一起设定目标，确定所需的支持措施并监控进度。奖学金的选择是基于一个创新的双层系统，在过去的奖学金计划中已经成功地通过了审查。ESP允许GPA低于3.0，但根据其他标准展示学术才能的学生有机会证明自己。学生的表现受到密切关注。除了传统的学术支持活动（如近同行辅导，辅导等），该计划侧重于课外高影响力的经验，如暑期研究与教师，实习，专业发展和实地考察。研究人员将研究该计划的高影响力的经验和两级选择过程，提供了一个宝贵的贡献，以干教育知识库有关这些干预措施的各种影响程度的获得低收入，学术人才的学生在FLC。研究结果不仅将由主要研究者及其合作者传播给当地和国家STEM教育社区，还将通过学者在家乡的演讲传播给当地社区。

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.