UC Irvine Pathways to Engineering Collaborative

加州大学欧文分校工程协作途径

• 批准号: 1742627
• 负责人: Lorenzo Valdevit
• 金额: $ 499.95万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742627&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UC; Irvine; Pathways; Engineering; Collaborative

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the "UC Irvine Pathways to Engineering Collaborative" project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Irvine Valley College (IVC). Throughout its five years, this project will fund 360 scholarships for community college students who are pursuing engineering degrees with a specialization in advanced manufacturing. Recognizing the crucial need for partnerships between two-year institutions and universities in the advancement of students who pursue baccalaureate degrees in engineering, this S-STEM Track 3 project establishes an academic and counseling collaboration that includes co-advising, mentoring, and tutoring and establishes pathways to baccalaureate degrees in engineering. Drawing on Tinto's theory of student retention and Eccles Expectancy-Value theory to examine choice and success in engineering, the partner institutions will organize their project around five principle objectives. First, they seek to create an ecosystem of curricular and co-curricular supports to improve the transfer student experience. Second, they will increase the number of community college students who transfer and matriculate in engineering. Third, they plan to mentor these transfer students toward graduating with baccalaureate degrees in engineering with a special emphasis in advanced manufacturing. Fourth, the project team will aim to increase the number of these baccalaureate degree recipients who enter into the workforce or graduate school. Finally, the investigators will carry out their work with an eye toward contributing new knowledge on success in engineering through a multi-year mixed method longitudinal study. This multi-year mixed-methods study investigates the priorities, values, and experiences that shape academically talented low-income students' education choices and their will to succeed. The investigation is guided by the following overarching research question: "What drives academically talented, low-income engineering students, who begin their academic careers at community colleges, to succeed in engineering?"This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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，“加州大学欧文分校工程合作之路”项目将支持加州大学欧文分校（UCI）和欧文谷学院（IVC）有经济需求的高成就低收入学生。在五年的时间里，该项目将为攻读先进制造专业工程学位的社区大学生提供360个奖学金。认识到两年制院校和大学之间的合作伙伴关系对于提高攻读工程学士学位的学生的重要性，S-STEM Track 3项目建立了学术和咨询合作，包括共同建议、指导和辅导，并建立了获得工程学士学位的途径。利用Tinto的学生保留理论和Eccles期望价值理论来检验工程学的选择和成功，合作院校将围绕五个主要目标组织他们的项目。首先，他们寻求创建一个课程和课外支持的生态系统，以改善转学生的体验。第二，他们将增加转到工程专业的社区大学学生的数量。第三，他们计划指导这些转学生获得工程学士学位，特别强调先进制造业。第四，项目团队将致力于增加这些学士学位获得者进入劳动力市场或研究生院的人数。最后，研究人员将开展他们的工作，着眼于通过多年的混合方法纵向研究，为工程成功贡献新的知识。这项为期多年的混合方法研究调查了影响学业天赋的低收入家庭学生的教育选择和他们成功意愿的优先事项、价值观和经历。这项调查以以下首要研究问题为指导：“是什么驱使有学术天赋的低收入工程专业学生，在社区大学开始他们的学术生涯，在工程领域取得成功？”该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

The Motivation of Low-Income Engineering Transfer Students that Influences Choosing and Pursuing a Baccalaureate Degree Attainment in Engineering

低收入工程转学生的动机影响选择和攻读工程学士学位

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of American Society of Engineering Education
• 作者: Salgado, Leo