Engineering Technology Scholars - IMProving REtention and Student Success (ETS-IMPRESS)

认识到国家和地区对具有学士学位的训练有素的工程技术STEM劳动力的需求，工程技术学者-提高保留率和学生成功（ETS-IMPRESS）项目提供财政支持和高影响力课程和课外活动的生态系统，以提高学术天才学生的成功。在美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）项目的资助下，ETS-IMPRESS将支持12名首次入学的学生，为期4年，并支持36名从社区大学转学的学生，为期2年。该项目的目标是：(1)增加攻读工程技术学位的学生的数量和多样性（第一代，代表性不足的学生，女性和退伍军人）；(2)增加有关工程技术最佳实践的知识体系，促进就业；(3)对自我效能感的文献做出贡献。ETS-IMPRESS位于密歇根理工大学，汇集了技术学院提供的工程技术课程和帕夫利斯荣誉学院的课程，帕夫利斯荣誉学院是一所围绕高影响力教育实践而设计的包容性和独特的学院。ETS-IMPRESS项目提供了一个独特的机会，让有学术天赋的工程技术学生参与旨在培养领导能力、技术知识和就业技能的活动，这些活动旨在积极招募和雇用来自不同背景和社区的毕业生。通过关注广泛的学生，该项目将通过(1)混合方法前/后研究设计来研究动机、自我效能和专业技能的差异；(2)对转校生进行匹配队列比较研究，研究是否参与工程技术项目与荣誉大学选修项目的学习。

Recognizing a national and regional need for a highly trained engineering technology STEM workforce with baccalaureate degrees, the Engineering Technology Scholars - IMProving Retention and Student Success (ETS-IMPRESS) project provides financial support and an ecosystem of high-impact curricular and co-curricular activities to increase the success of academically talented students. With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, ETS-IMPRESS will support a total of 12 first-time students for four years and 36 students transferring from community colleges will be supported for two years. The goals of the project are to (1) increase the number and diversity of students pursuing degrees in engineering technology (first-generation, underrepresented students, women, and veterans); (2) add to the body of knowledge regarding best practices in Engineering Technology and promote employment; and (3) contribute to the literature on self-efficacy. Located at Michigan Technological University, ETS-IMPRESS brings together programs in engineering technology that are offered through the School of Technology and programs in the Pavlis Honors College, an inclusive and unique college designed around high-impact educational practices. The ETS-IMPRESS project provides a unique opportunity to engage academically talented engineering technology students in activities designed to foster leadership, technical know-how, and employability skills for technology fields that actively recruit and employ graduates from diverse backgrounds and communities. By focusing on a broad range of students, the project will investigate the relationship between student characteristics and student success through (1) a mixed-methods pre/post research design that examines differences in motivation, self-efficacy and professional skills and (2) a matched cohort comparison study of transfer students that examines participation/non-participation in engineering technology programs of study with honors' college elective programming.