Spokane Falls Community College Engineering Scholarship Project

斯波坎福尔斯社区学院（SFCC）将推行“工程奖学金项目”，为36名本科工程专业学生提供奖学金和促进学术成功的支持活动。该项目包括与东华盛顿大学的合作，该大学将招募高年级的工程专业学生，在为期一年的机器人设计活动中担任社区大学一年级学生的同伴导师。有针对性的奖学金与结构化的指导和学生支持活动计划相结合，旨在增加坚持并完成SFCC工程转移学位的学生人数，并成功转移到四年制院校。该项目有可能增加合格工程师的多样性和可用性，以满足区域劳动力需求。该项目将产生有关循证方法的新知识，以提高社区学院工程学生的持久性，完成和转移到学士学位授予机构的成果。工程奖学金项目将开发和应用系统推广到高中的方法，以招募有学术动机的学生，并鼓励他们进入SFCC的本科工程课程。学生群体将获得四年的支持：他们将在SFCC完成两年制工程学位，并转入四年制院校，在那里他们将完成获得学士学位工程学位所需的额外要求。 学生的成功将通过课程途径，教师咨询，同学导师和支持性的课外活动得到支持。评估结果将用于推动实践和机构文化的变革，以提高SFCC未来在STEM领域招收学生的成功率，并支持成功完成两年制学位和转学。

Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) will pursue the "Engineering Scholarship Project" to provide 36 undergraduate engineering students with scholarships and supporting activities that promote academic success. The project includes a collaboration with Eastern Washington University, which will recruit upper-class engineering students to serve as peer mentors for first-year community college students within the context of a year-long robotics design activity. Targeted scholarships integrated with a program of structured mentoring and student support activities aim to increase the number of students who persist and complete an engineering transfer degree at SFCC, and successfully transfer to a four-year institution. The project has the potential increase the diversity and availability of qualified engineers to meet regional workforce needs. The project will generate new knowledge regarding evidence-based approaches to improving outcomes in community college engineering student persistence, completion, and transfer to baccalaureate-granting institutions. The Engineering Scholarship Project will develop and apply methods of systematic outreach to high schools to recruit academically motivated students and encourage them to enter undergraduate engineering programs at SFCC. Student cohorts will be supported for four years: they will complete their two-year engineering degree at SFCC and transfer to a four-year institution, where they will complete the additional requirements needed to earn a baccalaureate engineering degree. Student success will be supported through curriculum pathways, faculty advising, peer student mentors, and supportive co-curricular activities. Evaluation results will be used to drive changes in practice and institutional culture that improve SFCC's future success in recruiting student in STEM, as well as support successful two-year degree completion and transfer.