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Greater Equity, Access, and Readiness for Success in Engineering and Technology: Pathway to and Through Engineering

工程和技术领域更大的公平性、机会和成功准备：通向工程和通过工程的途径

基本信息

批准号：
1930478
负责人：
Lesley Berhan
金额：
$ 100万
依托单位：
University of Toledo
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=1930478&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Greater Equity Access Readiness Success

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, this project will fund seven-semester scholarships to 30 students in the University of Toledo's University College. The Scholars will pursue bachelor's degrees in engineering and engineering technology and related computer science majors. Applicants to the College of Engineering who do not gain direct admission to their desired majors are admitted to the Department of Exploratory Studies within University College, where they receive curricular and co-curricular support in preparation for transfer to the College of Engineering. This project addresses the need to provide Exploratory Studies students with greater access to and success in engineering. Diversification of the STEM workforce is essential for the nation to remain globally competitive. Consequently, increasing the diversity of the local and regional engineering workforce is a long-term goal of this project. Under-represented minority students comprise only about 9% of students who are admitted to the College of Engineering from high school, but comprise nearly 50% of students in the Department of Exploratory Studies. Thus, each cohort of Scholars is expected to be more diverse than the students admitted into the College directly from high school, supporting the effort to broaden participation in engineering at the University of Toledo.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Project activities are designed to create a supportive ecosystem that will promote student belonging, motivation, and success. Activities include community engagement, faculty and peer mentoring, and industry-focused professional development. The project is expected to improve the mathematics preparation and transfer rates of students from Exploratory Studies into engineering. The project will also contribute to the adoption of evidence-based inclusive mentoring and instructional strategies by faculty across the College of Engineering, which have the potential to positively impact all engineering students. The project's research plan focuses on analyzing the effects of proposed curricular and co-curricular supports on Scholars' motivation and sense of belonging, competence in and through pre-engineering, and success in completion of an engineering degree. Results from this research have the potential to increase the equitable recruitment, retention, student success, co-op placement, and graduation of students who aspire to careers in engineering. 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。该项目为期五年，将为托莱多大学学院的30名学生提供七个学期的奖学金。这些学者将攻读工程和工程技术以及相关计算机科学专业的学士学位。申请人到工程谁不获得直接录取到他们想要的专业的学院被录取到探索性研究在大学学院，在那里他们获得课程和课外支持，准备转移到工程学院的部门。该项目旨在为探索性研究学生提供更多的工程机会和成功。STEM劳动力的多样化对于国家保持全球竞争力至关重要。因此，增加当地和区域工程劳动力的多样性是该项目的长期目标。代表性不足的少数民族学生仅占从高中进入工程学院的学生的9%左右，但占探索性研究系学生的近50%。因此，每一批奖学金获得者都将比直接从高中进入学院的学生更加多样化，支持扩大托莱多大学工程学参与的努力。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的STEM学位完成率。项目活动旨在创造一个支持性的生态系统，促进学生的归属感，动机和成功。活动包括社区参与，教师和同行指导，以及以行业为重点的专业发展。该项目预计将提高学生的数学准备和从探索性研究到工程的转移率。该项目还将有助于工程学院教师采用循证包容性指导和教学战略，这有可能对所有工程专业学生产生积极影响。该项目的研究计划侧重于分析拟议的课程和课外支持对学者的动机和归属感，能力和通过工程预科，并成功完成工程学位的影响。这项研究的结果有可能增加公平的招聘，保留，学生的成功，合作社安置，和谁渴望在工程职业生涯的学生毕业。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。