Broadening Ecosystem Attributes for Talented Scholars (BEATS)

加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的卓越工程与多样性中心（CEED）将开发“拓宽天才学者的工程属性”（BEATS）项目，为38名攻读工程和计算机科学学士学位的学术天才学生提供年度奖学金。除了奖学金援助外，该计划还将为学生提供学术课程和非学术课外课程，旨在积极加强每个学生对其专业和亨利塞缪尔利工程与应用科学学院的归属感。CEED的工作人员将组织和主持夏季关键过渡数学/科学训练营，为即将入学的新生和转学生为加州大学洛杉矶分校快节奏的季度制做好准备。整个学年，行业将主办和组织多个企业主导的专业发展机会。学者们将参加个人和同伴指导会议，以增加他们在工程和计算机科学方面的社会和学术参与，这将导致更高的学位完成率，并最终增加有才华的学者进入美国工程和计算机科学劳动力的数量。BEATS项目的目标是增加具有工程和计算机科学学位的学术天才学生的数量，并直接或在攻读工程或计算机科学研究生学位后进入STEM劳动力市场。课程和课外主动学习社区将促进同伴动机和个人动机，这将与社会和学术整合和参与呈正相关。获得奖学金的新生和他们的非学者同伴将参加“工程学科导论”课程，在这门课程中，他们将被分配到一个研究项目的小组，该项目将在秋季学期结束时通过一次高潮演讲完成。分析关键过渡项目、积极学习社区和归属感之间的关系，将有助于我们深入了解哪些活动对社会和学术整合、参与、自我效能、以及随后在工程和计算机科学领域坚持到学位的完成和更高的gpa影响最大。

The Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED) at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will develop the "Broadening Engineering Attributes of Talented Scholars" (BEATS) project to provide annual scholarships for thirty-eight academically talented students pursuing bachelor degrees in engineering and computer science. In addition to scholarship assistance, this program will provide students with academic curricular and non-academic co-curricular programs aimed at positively reinforcing each student's sense of belonging in their major and in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. CEED staff will organize and host summer critical transition math/science boot camps that will prepare incoming freshmen and transfer students for the fast-paced quarter system of UCLA. Industry will host and organize multiple corporate-led professional development opportunities throughout the academic year. Scholars will participate in individual and peer mentoring sessions to increase their social and academic engagement in engineering and computer science, which will lead to higher rates of degree completion and ultimately increase the number of talented scholars entering the engineering and computer science US workforce.The goal of the BEATS project is to increase the number of academically talented students who graduate with engineering and computer science degrees, and enter the STEM workforce either directly or after pursuing a graduate degree in engineering or computer science. The curricular and co-curricular active learning community will foster both peer motivation and individual motivation, which will positively correlate with social and academic integration and engagement. Freshmen scholarship recipients and their non-scholar peers will enroll in an "Introduction to Engineering Disciplines" course in which they will be assigned to groups for a research project that will be finalized by a capstone presentation at the end of the Fall quarter. Analysis of the relationships between critical transition programs, the active learning community, and a sense of belonging will provide insight into which activities have the most influence on social and academic integration and engagement, self-efficacy, and subsequently persistence-to-degree completion and higher GPAs in engineering and computer science.