Institutional Partnership to Create Successful Student Transition in Smart Energy & Materials

机构合作创造智能能源领域学生的成功转型

• 批准号: 1742056
• 负责人: James Pitarresi
• 金额: $ 415.39万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742056&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Institutional; Partnership; Create; Successful; Student

Community college students face more barriers on their path to a STEM bachelor's degree than those entering college through a four-year school. To create a viable pathway to STEM degrees, and to ensure opportunities to students with significant financial need, this project will establish a partnership funded by an NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Track 3 award centered at Binghamton University that provides a smooth and supported transition from community college through STEM baccalaureate degrees. The project will work with established, successful partnerships between Binghamton, CUNY Queensborough Community College, and the SUNY Broome Community College to increase retention, success, and graduation of students as they transition from Associate of Science (AS) to Bachelor of Science (BS) degree programs. The project emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach, using "Smart Energy" as an educational emphasis that is critical to the alternative energy future of the United States, and a disciplinary focus on degrees in chemistry, physics, and mechanical engineering. The project will offer 90 low-income, academically talented students four-year scholarships and aim for all students in the program to complete their BS degree. The project will recruit from proven networks for low-income, academically talented, and underrepresented students. Project features will include an early research experience, a 1-credit seminar, coordinated advising support between 2-year and 4-year schools, faculty mentorship development, industry internship and middle school outreach opportunities, articulation agreements to support seamless transfer, and other forms of support to foster learning communities. The fundamental objective of this proposed S-STEM program is to promote STEM BS degree completion and careers for low-income, academically talented students, including underrepresented minority and female students, through a well-supported, seamless transfer path from partner community colleges to Binghamton University. The proposed students will be trained in STEM fields related to Smart Energy, as a key societal challenge. The students will gain hands-on experience, addressing current global problems, and will contribute to knowledge gains in STEM fields, including new materials and technologies for energy generation and storage at leading-edge research programs at Binghamton. The American Chemical Society's ChemIDP will be employed to take students through a process of self-assessment, career planning, goal setting and skill strengthening. The project team will work with the American Chemical Society's Education Division to provide professional development workshops and resources to faculty involved in the project in support of upper level student advising. This project will study interventions to improve retention, completion and academic success for community college transfer students, extending support to transfer students as soon as they begin at community college, contributing to the body of knowledge about the factors that shape student success in STEM education. Those activities deemed to be effective in meeting the project goals will be brought to the SUNY Chancellor as a model for seamless transfer across the 64 SUNY campuses and disseminated nationally through regional meetings and educational symposia. By attracting scholars into STEM programs and guiding them through BS degrees and into science-related careers, this project will have impact beyond SUNY Binghamton to fill a national need for highly trained scientists and engineers, while providing opportunities for economically disadvantaged students.

社区大学的学生在获得STEM学士学位的道路上面临的障碍比那些通过四年制学校进入大学的学生更多。为了创造一个可行的途径STEM学位，并确保有重大经济需求的学生的机会，该项目将建立一个由NSF STEM奖学金资助的合作伙伴关系（S-STEM）轨道3奖集中在宾厄姆顿大学，提供从社区大学到STEM学士学位的平稳过渡和支持。该项目将与宾厄姆顿，纽约市立大学皇后区社区学院和纽约州立大学布鲁姆社区学院之间建立成功的合作伙伴关系，以提高学生的保留，成功和毕业，因为他们从科学（AS）的副学士学位课程过渡到科学（BS）学位课程。该项目强调跨学科的方法，使用“智能能源”作为对美国替代能源未来至关重要的教育重点，以及化学，物理和机械工程学位的学科重点。该项目将为90名低收入，学术天赋的学生提供四年奖学金，并旨在让该项目的所有学生完成他们的学士学位。该项目将从低收入，学术才华和代表性不足的学生的成熟网络中招募。项目特点将包括早期的研究经验，1学分的研讨会，2年制和4年制学校之间的协调咨询支持，教师指导发展，行业实习和中学外展机会，衔接协议，以支持无缝转移，以及其他形式的支持，以促进学习社区。这个拟议的S-STEM计划的基本目标是促进低收入，学术才华的学生，包括代表性不足的少数民族和女性学生的STEM BS学位完成和职业生涯，通过从合作伙伴社区学院到宾厄姆顿大学的良好支持，无缝转移路径。拟议的学生将在与智能能源相关的STEM领域接受培训，这是一个关键的社会挑战。学生将获得实践经验，解决当前的全球问题，并将有助于在干领域的知识增益，包括新材料和技术的能源生产和存储在宾厄姆顿领先的研究计划。美国化学学会的ChemIDP将被用来引导学生进行自我评估、职业规划、目标设定和技能强化。该项目团队将与美国化学学会的教育部合作，为参与该项目的教师提供专业发展研讨会和资源，以支持上层学生的建议。该项目将研究干预措施，以提高社区大学转学生的保留率，完成率和学业成功率，一旦他们开始在社区大学转学，就向转学生提供支持，为STEM教育中塑造学生成功的因素的知识体系做出贡献。那些被认为在实现项目目标方面有效的活动将被带到纽约州立大学校长那里，作为在纽约州立大学64个校区之间无缝转移的模式，并通过区域会议和教育研讨会在全国范围内传播。通过吸引学者进入STEM项目，并引导他们通过BS学位和科学相关的职业，该项目将产生超越SUNY Binghamton的影响，以满足全国对训练有素的科学家和工程师的需求，同时为经济困难的学生提供机会。