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Building Capacity: Building Bridges into Engineering and Computer Science

能力建设：架起通往工程和计算机科学的桥梁

基本信息

批准号：
1832553
负责人：
Doris Espiritu
金额：
$ 142.36万
依托单位：
City Colleges of Chicago Wilbur Wright College
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：
2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832553&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Building Capacity Bridges into Engineering

项目摘要

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI program will also generate new knowledge about how to achieve these aims. This project at Wilbur Wright College will advance the aims of the HSI Program by enabling talented, underprepared, low-income students to pursue and complete a bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science. Public schools in urban areas struggle to prepare their large populations of low-income students in math and science. Thus, many high school graduates are not well prepared to pursue further education requiring quantitative or analytical thinking, or to join the US workforce in jobs demanding these skills. This project aims to develop and implement pathways, practices, and interventions to support student success in engineering or computer science at two critical transitions: from high school to community college, and from community college to four-year universities. The project plans to achieve this goal partly through streamlined connections between Wilbur Wright College, the Chicago Public schools, and public four-year colleges and universities in Illinois. The strategies developed and the knowledge produced in this project are expected to be significant to a broad segment of public education.The project will be centered at Wilbur Wright College, an urban community college in the City Colleges of Chicago system. Wilbur Wright College is the largest federally recognized Hispanic-serving community college in Illinois. The project aims to build bridges across critical transitions by creating a Summer Bridge Camp to improve math skills and prepare incoming students for an engineering or computer science curriculum. It will also create a one-year engineering Gateway course to further strengthen students' math skills and self-efficacy. The project also aims to enhance practices that support the development of students' professional identity (i.e. the ability to see themselves as engineers or computer scientists), through faculty and near-peer mentoring, tutoring, intentional advising, engineering and computer science social events, and participation in professional meetings. The project will track students' semester-to-semester GPA, retention, transfer, graduation rates, and length of time to complete the associate's and bachelor's degrees. Self-efficacy and identity will be measured by an educational research professional. This project is expected to contribute to the national need for a diverse engineering and computer science workforce.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.

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。威尔伯·赖特学院的这个项目将推动HSI计划的目标，使有才华的、准备不足的、低收入的学生能够攻读并完成工程或计算机科学的学士学位。城市地区的公立学校很难让大量低收入家庭的学生在数学和科学方面做好准备。因此，许多高中毕业生并没有准备好继续接受需要定量思维或分析思维的教育，也没有准备好加入需要这些技能的美国劳动力队伍。该项目旨在开发和实施途径、实践和干预措施，以支持学生在两个关键阶段在工程或计算机科学方面取得成功：从高中到社区大学，从社区大学到四年制大学。该项目计划通过简化威尔伯·赖特学院、芝加哥公立学校和伊利诺伊州公立四年制学院和大学之间的联系来实现这一目标。在这个项目中制定的战略和产生的知识预计将对公共教育的广泛领域具有重要意义。该项目将以芝加哥城市学院系统中的城市社区学院威尔伯·赖特学院为中心。威尔伯·赖特学院是伊利诺斯州最大的联邦认可的西班牙裔社区学院。该项目旨在通过创建夏季桥营来提高数学技能，并为即将入学的学生准备工程或计算机科学课程，从而在关键的过渡阶段架起桥梁。它还将开设为期一年的工程门户课程，以进一步加强学生的数学技能和自我效能感。该项目还旨在通过教师和同行指导、辅导、有意建议、工程和计算机科学社交活动以及参加专业会议，加强支持学生职业身份发展的实践（即将自己视为工程师或计算机科学家的能力）。该项目将跟踪学生每学期的GPA、留校率、转学率、毕业率以及完成副学士学位和学士学位所需的时间。自我效能感和身份将由教育研究专业人员测量。该项目预计将有助于满足国家对多样化工程和计算机科学劳动力的需求。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。