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Urban Sustainability Engineering Fellows: Catalyzing Cultural Transformation in Matriculation Pathways from Community College to Bachelor's Degree Completion

城市可持续发展工程研究员：促进从社区学院到完成学士学位的预科路径中的文化转型

基本信息

批准号：
1930402
负责人：
John Kevern
金额：
$ 99.69万
依托单位：
University of Missouri-Kansas City
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930402&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Urban Sustainability Engineering Fellows Catalyzing

项目摘要

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund four-year scholarships to 56 students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Metropolitan Community College. The scholarships will support the Scholars' pursuit of bachelor's degrees in mechanical or civil engineering. The project will seek to offer a well-rounded scholarship program that supports successful transition of students from Metropolitan Community College into the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The program will be designed to develop a culture of inclusive participation within the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and enhance the success of urban students in obtaining bachelor's degrees in engineering.The overall goal of the project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This program will include three integrated components focused on issues related to the urban core of Kansas City, which includes Metropolitan Community College, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Kansas City Public School District. The curricular component will include Mindset Calculus Labs I and II, Introduction to Engineering Research, Cornerstone Design to Renew the Urban Core, and Capstone Design to Renew the Urban Core. The co-curricular support component will include research and leadership experiences. The cultural support component will include student-led governance, close collaboration with industry and urban community stakeholders, inter- and intra-cohort shared experiences, and faculty reflection on student-centered pedagogies. The individual program components will be organized around a unifying them of supporting the urban core of Kansas City. Data will be collected to conduct a longitudinal, mixed-method analysis of change in departmental culture from the student, faculty, staff, and administrative perspective. The change in persistence, engineering identity, engineering career aspiration, and academic motivation of urban community college engineering transfer students will also be analyzed. Matriculation of engineering students from community colleges to four-year institutions is a pathway with great potential to increase equity in STEM higher education. The comprehensive strategy developed in this project may provide a model for sustaining successful matriculation and graduation of transfer students that could be adopted by other urban institutions of higher learning. 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.

该项目将通过支持有经济需要的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求。在五年的时间里，该项目将为密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校和大都会社区学院的56名学生提供四年奖学金。奖学金将支持学者攻读机械或土木工程学士学位。该项目将寻求提供一个全面的奖学金计划，支持学生从大都会社区学院成功过渡到密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校的土木和机械工程系。该项目旨在培养土木与机械工程系内的包容性参与文化，提高城市学生获得工程学士学位的成功率。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生完成STEM学位的机会。该计划将包括三个综合组成部分，重点关注与堪萨斯城城市核心有关的问题，其中包括大都会社区学院、密苏里大学-堪萨斯城和堪萨斯城公立学区。课程组成部分将包括Minnesota微积分实验室I和II，工程研究介绍，更新城市核心的基石设计和更新城市核心的顶点设计。共同课程的支持部分将包括研究和领导经验。文化支持部分将包括学生主导的治理，与行业和城市社区利益相关者的密切合作，跨和队列内的共享经验，以及教师对以学生为中心的课程的反思。各个项目组成部分将围绕一个统一的支持堪萨斯城城市核心组织起来。将收集数据，从学生、教职员工和行政角度对部门文化的变化进行纵向、混合方法分析。本研究亦将分析都市社区学院工程系转学生在坚持性、工程认同、工程职业期望、及学术动机等方面的变化。从社区学院到四年制大学的工程专业学生入学考试是一条具有巨大潜力的途径，可以提高STEM高等教育的公平性。该项目制定的综合战略可以为其他城市高等院校提供一个可供借鉴的模式，以维持转学生成功入学和毕业。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，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。