Engineering Academic Talent Scholarship Program

工程学术人才奖学金计划

基本信息

批准号：
1833767
负责人：
Yoel Rodriguez
金额：
$ 99.94万
依托单位：
CUNY Hostos Community College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-03-15 至 2025-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833767&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Engineering Academic Talent Scholarship Program

项目摘要

This five-year project will contribute to the national need for well-educated STEM professionals by supporting the success of thirty Scholars who are pursuing associate's and bachelor's degrees in engineering. The project is led by Hostos Community College, an urban Hispanic-Serving Institution in Bronx, NY, and member of the City University of New York system. The project will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need in partnership with The City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering. Over five years, this project will fund up to 110 annual scholarships. Each scholarship will provide a full year of financial support for up to four years of study, including up to two years at Hostos Community College and up to two years at the Grove School of Engineering. The project will increase the impact of the scholarship support by providing Scholars with mentoring by faculty and near-peers and ensuring that the Scholars take full advantage of available resources and professional development opportunities that are associated with student success. These resources include: 1) writing across disciplines in the STEM curriculum; 2) mentored immersive undergraduate research experiences; 3) guidance and support for transfer to a four-year institution; 4) exposure to STEM-related working and professional facilities; 5) participation at professional STEM conferences; and 6) career orientation workshops and other professional development opportunities. This project builds on the previous NSF-funded "Bridges to Engineering Success for Transfers" Program that helped to establish a Joint Dual Engineering Degree Program between Hostos Community College and the Grove School of Engineering. The project includes a robust evaluation plan to determine the impact of combined faculty and near-peer mentoring on Scholars' academic success. The evaluation plan will use a mixed-method approach to assess the project's impact on Scholars' academic performance, retention (institutional and within STEM disciplines), and post-graduate outcomes relative to their non-participant peers, as well as project implementation, progress in relation to developmental objectives, institutional impact, and alignment with the NSF Scholarships in STEM program. The research results from this study will be used formatively to refine the intervention model as student experiences and outcomes are better understood. The results are expected to be generalizable to other populations both inside and outside of Hostos Community College, creating the potential to expand the project model to other STEM programs and institutions. This project is funded by the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income, academically high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future scientists, engineers, and technicians, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

这个为期五年的项目将通过支持攻读工程学士学位和学士学位的三十名学者的成功来促进国家对受过良好教育的STEM专业人员的需求。该项目由Hostos社区学院（Hostos Community College）领导，这是位于纽约州布朗克斯市的一家城市西班牙裔美国人服务机构，纽约城市大学系统的成员。该项目将支持与纽约城市学院工程学院合作的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。在五年的时间里，该项目将资助多达110个年度奖学金。每项奖学金将为长达四年的学习提供全年的财政支持，其中包括在Hostos社区学院任职两年，在Grove工程学院任职长达两年。该项目将通过为学者提供教师和近亲的指导，并确保学者充分利用与学生成功相关的可用资源和专业发展机会，从而增加奖学金支持的影响。这些资源包括：1）STEM课程中的跨学科写作； 2）指导沉浸式的本科研究经验； 3）转移到四年制机构的指导和支持； 4）接触与STEM有关的工作和专业设施； 5）参加专业的STEM会议； 6）职业定向研讨会和其他专业发展机会。该项目建立在以前由NSF资助的“转移工程成功桥梁”计划的基础上，该计划有助于在Hostos社区学院和Grove工程学院之间建立联合双重工程学位课程。该项目包括一项强大的评估计划，以确定联合教师和近点指导对学者的学业成功的影响。评估计划将使用一种混合方法来评估该项目对学者的学业表现，保留（机构和在STEM学科中）的影响，以及相对于其非参与者同行的研究生成果，以及项目实施，对发展目标，机构影响，机构影响以及与NSF奖学金的一致性的进展。这项研究的研究结果将被形成地用于完善干预模型，因为学生的经验和结果得到了更好的理解。预计该结果可以推广到Hostos社区学院内外的其他人群，从而有可能将项目模型扩展到其他STEM计划和机构。该项目由科学，技术，工程和数学计划的NSF奖学金资助，该计划旨在增加具有证明经济需求的低收入，学术上高成绩的学生的数量，他们在STEM领域获得学位。它还旨在改善未来科学家，工程师和技术人员的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过使用该基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估CRITERIA的评估。