Collaborative Research: Student Pathways in Engineering and Computing for Transfer Success

合作研究：工程和计算领域学生成功转学的途径

• 批准号: 1834081
• 负责人: Mary Kurz
• 金额: $ 427.71万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 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: 2019-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Student; Pathways; Engineering

A national challenge in STEM education is the low graduation rate of engineering students who transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. One driver of this low success rate is the insufficient preparation of community college students for the differences they will face at the four-year institution. In addition, the four-year institution often lacks social and academic support to help bridge this gap. This project aims to increase the success of engineering and computer science students who transfer to Clemson University from Spartanburg Community College or Trident Community College, or from any of the 16 technical colleges in South Carolina. Over a five-year period, 316 students will receive scholarships of up to four years, to support their successful transfer and attainment of a bachelor's degrees in engineering or computing from Clemson University. In addition to the scholarship support, the project includes evidence-based mentorship and cohort building activities that support transfer student success. The project features an innovative Ph.D. student traineeship that links Clemson graduate students with community college faculty and students. The graduate students will receive training in teaching, mentoring, and education research, and work closely with the scholarship students both at the community colleges, and after the students transfer to Clemson. It is expected that the project will contribute to the quality and diversity of the national STEM workforce and increase understanding of what works to support success of transfer students.In addition to providing scholarships to low-income, academically high-achieving transfer students, this project addresses well-known hurdles for transfer students by implementing and assessing a cohort mentoring model based on evidence-based strategies including communities of practice and cognitive mentorship. The program elements are designed to support transfer student enculturation in the university, as well as degree completion and placement in the industrial workforce. The program will recruit and train ten Clemson STEM PhD students for careers in academia by engaging them in immersive experiences in teaching, mentoring, and applied educational research. This training will include a residency at the community college sites where they will: 1) co-teach engineering courses with community college faculty; 2) develop and lead a cohort of low-income community college students in a project-based Creative Inquiry course that will be a focus of applied educational research; and 3) return to Clemson with the developed cohort, thus helping to bridge the institutional gap. The program will conduct rigorous internal and external educational assessment and program evaluation to identify key indicators of student success and to provide information that can be used to improve STEM education at other institutions. Results from this work will be broadly disseminated through digital outlets (e.g., e-newsletters; listservs), presentations at national conferences, and publications in peer-reviewed and trade journals to reach audiences ranging from higher education to low-income students with aspirations of excellence. 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.

STEM教育面临的一个全国性挑战是，工程专业学生从社区大学转到四年制大学的毕业率很低。这种低成功率的一个驱动因素是社区大学的学生对他们在四年制大学将面临的差异准备不足。此外，四年制大学往往缺乏社会和学术支持来帮助弥合这一差距。该项目旨在提高从斯帕坦堡社区学院或三叉戟社区学院或南卡罗来纳州16所技术学院转学到克莱姆森大学的工程和计算机科学专业学生的成功率。在五年的时间里，316名学生将获得最长四年的奖学金，以支持他们成功转学并获得克莱姆森大学工程或计算机学士学位。除了奖学金支持外，该项目还包括支持转学生成功的循证指导和队列建设活动。该项目以创新的博士生实习为特色，将克莱姆森大学的研究生与社区学院的教师和学生联系起来。研究生将接受教学、指导和教育研究方面的培训，并在社区学院和学生转到克莱姆森大学后与奖学金学生密切合作。预计该项目将有助于提高国家STEM劳动力的质量和多样性，并加深对如何支持转学生成功的理解。除了为低收入、学业优异的转校生提供奖学金外，该项目还通过实施和评估基于实践社区和认知指导等循证策略的队列指导模型，解决了转校生面临的众所周知的障碍。该项目旨在支持转学生在大学的文化适应，以及学位的完成和在工业劳动力中的安置。该项目将招募和培训10名克莱姆森STEM博士研究生，让他们在教学、指导和应用教育研究方面进行沉浸式体验，以从事学术界的职业。该培训将包括在社区学院实习，在那里他们将：1)与社区学院的教员共同教授工程课程；2)培养并带领一群低收入社区大学生进行基于项目的创造性探究课程，该课程将成为应用教育研究的重点；3)带着发达的学员回到克莱姆森大学，从而帮助弥合制度差距。该项目将进行严格的内部和外部教育评估和项目评估，以确定学生成功的关键指标，并提供可用于改善其他机构STEM教育的信息。这项工作的成果将通过数字渠道（如电子通讯、listservs）、在全国会议上的演讲以及在同行评审期刊和行业期刊上的出版物广泛传播，以达到从高等教育到渴望卓越的低收入学生的广泛受众。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加低收入、学业成绩优异、有经济需求的学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。它还旨在改善未来科学家、工程师和技术人员的教育，并为低收入学生提供有关学业成功、留校、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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

Using Design-based Research Methods to Scale in an Expanding Intervention

使用基于设计的研究方法来扩大干预范围

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Boyer, D. M.;& Duncan, L. A.
• 通讯作者: & Duncan, L. A.

Facilitating a year-long research course sequence for undergraduate transfer students within a NSF S-STEM scholarship program

在 NSF S-STEM 奖学金计划中为本科转学生提供为期一年的研究课程序列

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Shen, J.;McDonald, L.;Kennedy, M.
• 通讯作者: Kennedy, M.

The Anisotropic Yield Surface of Cellular Materials

多孔材料的各向异性屈服面

• DOI: 10.1007/s11837-021-05033-x
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: JOM
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Conway, Kaitlynn M.;Romanick, Zachary;Cook, Lea M.;Morales, Luis A.;Despeaux, Jonathan D.;Ridlehuber, Marcus L.;Fingar, Christian;Doctor, Daquan;Nikhare, Chetan P.;Pataky, Garrett J.
• 通讯作者: Pataky, Garrett J.

Addressing Recruitment Issues with Potential Transfer Students from State Technical Colleges

解决州立技术学院潜在转学生的招聘问题

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Conner, S.;Duncan, L.;Averitt, L.;Boyer, D..M.;Kennedy, M
• 通讯作者: Kennedy, M

Initiating a graduate teaching fellow program to support undergraduates transferring into engineering and computing programs

启动研究生教学研究员计划，以支持本科生转入工程和计算机课程

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Kennedy, M.;Kitchens, C.;Santaniello, J.;Davenport, S.;Conway, K.;Ferriell, W.
• 通讯作者: Ferriell, W.