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Retaining Undergraduate Engineering Students Through Experiences in Industry, Entrepreneurship, Community Engagement, and Research

通过工业、创业、社区参与和研究经验留住本科工程生

基本信息

批准号：
1930354
负责人：
Charmane Caldwell
金额：
$ 100万
依托单位：
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical 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：
2019-12-01 至 2024-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930354&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Retaining Undergraduate Engineering Students Through

项目摘要

This project will contribute to the national need for engineers by supporting high-achieving, low-income undergraduate engineering students at Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University. Over its five-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 40 students. Sophomores will receive three-year scholarships and Juniors will receive two-year scholarships. The Scholars will pursue bachelor's degrees in biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, or mechanical engineering. The project plans to help the Scholars persist in their engineering program of study, all the way to graduation. It plans to do so by providing students with scholarships and academic support, as well as professional development activities. These activities include experiences in industry, entrepreneurship, community engagement, and multi-year research projects. Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University is a large, public Historically Black University. It has a high percentage of students from populations that are underrepresented in engineering. As a result, this project has the potential to broaden participation in engineering fields and to help to prepare a globally competitive, diverse engineering workforce.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in engineering fields. The specific objectives of this project are to: (1) have at least 80% of the Scholars successfully complete the pre-engineering program; (2) achieve an engineering graduation rate of at least 80% for the Scholars who successfully complete the pre-engineering program; (3) achieve a mean GPA for Scholars that is at least 0.3 points higher than their engineering peers; and (4) equip students with professional and technical skills that will enable them to be successful in STEM careers and/or STEM graduate programs. The project includes a research study to investigate whether implementing flexible options for continued student engagement through the summer after their first year of study helps students persist through their second year of study. Building on the Theory of Planned Behavior, this project will investigate the questions: How do Scholar’s post-graduation plans evolve from entry through graduation? Is there a notable change at the point of completing the pre-engineering program? How well do intentions predict post-graduation pursuits? Further, the project will investigate which program elements correlate best with successful student outcomes and differences that might exist depending on student demographics and/or first-year experience. Formative and summative process and outcome evaluations will be conducted using primary data collected from interactions with the project team, student surveys, and data from institutional records. Results of this project will be made available in scholarly publications, presentations, social media, and university communication channels. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, 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.

该项目将通过支持佛罗里达农业和机械大学的高成就、低收入本科工程专业学生，为国家对工程师的需求做出贡献。该项目为期五年，将向40名学生提供奖学金。大二学生将获得三年奖学金，大三学生将获得两年奖学金。这些学者将攻读生物医学、化学、民用、计算机、电气、工业或机械工程的学士学位。该项目计划帮助学者坚持他们的工程学习计划，一直到毕业。它计划通过为学生提供奖学金和学术支持以及专业发展活动来实现这一目标。这些活动包括在工业，创业，社区参与和多年的研究项目的经验。佛罗里达农业和机械大学是一所大型的公立历史黑人大学。它有很高比例的学生来自工程学代表性不足的人群。因此，该项目有可能扩大对工程领域的参与，并帮助培养具有全球竞争力的多样化工程人才队伍。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就本科生在工程领域的学位完成率。该项目的具体目标是：（1）至少有80%的学者成功完成工程预科课程;（2）成功完成工程预科课程的学者的工程毕业率至少为80%;（3）学者的平均GPA至少比工程同行高0.3分;以及（4）为学生提供专业和技术技能，使他们能够在STEM职业和/或STEM研究生课程中取得成功。该项目包括一项研究，以调查在第一年学习后的整个夏天实施灵活的选择是否有助于学生坚持到第二年学习。本研究以计划行为理论为基础，探讨学者从入学到毕业的毕业计划如何演变？在完成预工程计划时是否有明显的变化？意向如何预测毕业后的追求？此外，该项目将调查哪些项目元素与成功的学生成果最相关，以及可能存在的差异取决于学生的人口统计数据和/或第一年的经验。形成性和总结性的过程和结果评估将使用从与项目团队的互动，学生调查和机构记录中收集的数据进行。该项目的成果将在学术出版物，演示文稿，社交媒体和大学沟通渠道中提供。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，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价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。