Engineering Academic Talent Scholarship Program

这个为期五年的项目将通过支持30名正在攻读工程学副学士学位的学者的成功，来促进国家对受过良好教育的STEM专业人员的需求。该项目由纽约布朗克斯的城市西班牙裔服务机构Hostos社区学院领导，也是纽约城市大学系统的成员。该项目将与纽约城市学院格罗夫工程学院合作，支持高成就、低收入、有经济需求的学生留校和毕业。在五年的时间里，该项目将资助多达110个年度奖学金。每个奖学金将为最多四年的学习提供整整一年的财政支持，包括在Hostos社区学院学习最多两年，在格罗夫工程学院学习最多两年。该项目将通过向奖学金获得者提供教师和近邻的指导，并确保奖学金获得者充分利用与学生成功相关的现有资源和专业发展机会，来增加奖学金支持的影响。这些资源包括：1)STEM课程中跨学科的写作；2)身临其境的本科生指导研究经历；3)转到四年制院校的指导和支持；4)接触与STEM相关的工作和专业设施；5)参加STEM专业会议；以及6)职业指导讲习班和其他职业发展机会。该项目建立在之前由美国国家科学基金会资助的“成功转学的桥梁工程”项目的基础上，该项目帮助建立了Hostos社区学院和格罗夫工程学院之间的联合双工程学位项目。该项目包括一个强有力的评估计划，以确定教师和近乎同行的指导对学者的学术成功的影响。评估计划将使用混合方法来评估项目相对于非参与者同行对学者的学术表现、留存(机构和STEM学科范围内的)和研究生成果的影响，以及项目实施、与发展目标相关的进展、机构影响以及与NSF奖学金在STEM项目中的一致性。这项研究的研究结果将被用于更好地理解学生的经历和结果，从而完善干预模式。这一结果有望推广到Hostos社区学院内外的其他人群，为将该项目模式扩展到其他STEM项目和机构创造了潜力。该项目由NSF科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加获得STEM领域学位的低收入、学业成就高、有经济需求的学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来科学家、工程师和技术人员的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功、留住、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.