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Scholarships for Student Success in a Combined Bachelor/Master Degree Program in Engineering

为学生在工程学士/硕士学位联合课程中取得成功提供奖学金

基本信息

批准号：
2030615
负责人：
Sanjivan Manoharan
金额：
$ 96.7万
依托单位：
Grand Valley State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-04-01 至 2026-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030615&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Scholarships Student Success Combined Bachelor

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 at Grand Valley State University. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 30 full-time undergraduate engineering students who will pursue a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in engineering via the University’s Combined Degree Program. The selected Scholars will receive two years of scholarship support spanning the final year of their undergraduate program and the first year of their graduate program. The support is intended to encourage academically talented, low-income students to pursue a higher degree in engineering. In addition to providing scholarships, the project will also provide the Scholars with effective curricular and other support structures. For example, the project will provide faculty mentoring, cohort immersion, peer mentoring, experiential learning, research activities, targeted workshops, seminars, and leadership shadowing of industry senior managers. By providing financial resources, reducing the time required to obtain a Master’s degree, and providing mentoring and nurturing, the project intends to enable the Scholars to complete their degree on time and enter the STEM workforce. It is anticipated that these scholars will be able to assume leadership positions and positively impact society by creating new internships, scholarships, and other opportunities for future generations. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The specific aims of the project are to: 1) award scholarships to 30 high-achieving, low-income undergraduate STEM students to pursue both a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Master of Science in Engineering degree in a compressed timeline; 2) connect diverse graduate STEM students to industry and create a pipeline to full-time employment upon graduation; and 3) advance the understanding of how evidence-based activities aid in retention and graduation. Though the effects of high-impact activities are widely studied for undergraduate student populations, limited literature exists for graduate student populations. This project will explore the effect of high-impact activities on psychological variables, including imposter syndrome and self-efficacy, which determine a student’s sense of self-worth. The scope of the project will allow for assessment to occur at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The working hypothesis is that the proposed structures and activities will result in high academic achievement, successful employment outcomes, and improved self-worth. A multi-method quasi-experimental design will be used to evaluate the effect of the entire project’s structure and individual components on the students’ social, academic, and professional growth. The generated knowledge will help institutions of higher education develop evidence-based strategies for supporting low income groups to pursue graduate education. Knowledge generated from the project will be shared with the broader academic community via regional and national conferences and STEM publications. 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.

该项目将为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做出贡献，方法是支持高成就、低收入、有经济需求的学生留在大谷州立大学并毕业。在为期五年的时间里，该项目将为30名全日制工程学本科生提供奖学金，他们将通过该大学的联合学位计划攻读工程学学士和硕士学位。入选的奖学金获得者将获得为期两年的奖学金支持，包括本科课程的最后一年和研究生课程的第一年。这项支持旨在鼓励有学术天赋的低收入学生攻读更高的工程学学位。除了提供奖学金外，该项目还将为奖学金获得者提供有效的课程和其他支持结构。例如，该项目将提供教师指导、队列浸入式、同行指导、体验式学习、研究活动、有针对性的研讨会、研讨会以及行业高级管理人员的领导跟踪。通过提供财政资源，减少获得硕士学位所需的时间，以及提供指导和培养，该项目旨在使学者们能够按时完成他们的学位并进入STEM劳动力大军。预计这些学者将能够担任领导职务，并通过为子孙后代创造新的实习机会、奖学金和其他机会来积极影响社会。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位毕业率。该项目的具体目标是：1)向30名成绩优异、低收入的STEM本科生颁发奖学金，让他们在压缩的时间内攻读工程学学士和工程学硕士学位；2)将不同的STEM毕业生与行业联系起来，并在毕业后创造一条通往全职工作的渠道；以及3)增进对以证据为基础的活动如何有助于留住和毕业的理解。尽管高影响力活动对本科生群体的影响被广泛研究，但针对研究生群体的文献有限。这个项目将探索高影响力的活动对心理变量的影响，包括冒名顶替者综合症和自我效能感，这些变量决定了学生的自我价值感。该项目的范围将允许在本科生和研究生两级进行评估。工作假设是，所建议的结构和活动将导致高学业成就、成功的就业结果和提高自我价值。将使用多方法准实验设计来评估整个项目的结构和个体组成部分对学生的社会、学业和职业成长的影响。产生的知识将帮助高等教育机构制定以证据为基础的战略，以支持低收入群体继续接受研究生教育。该项目产生的知识将通过区域和国家会议以及STEM出版物与更广泛的学术界分享。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。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业成功、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。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（3）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ON THE PREVALENCE OF IMPOSTOR PHENOMENON IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS

工科学生冒名顶替现象的横断面研究

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Education and Development
影响因子：
0
作者：
Manoharan, Sanjivan;Choudhuri, Shabbir;Oye-Bamgbose, Olawale;Plotkowski, Paul.
通讯作者：
Plotkowski, Paul.

IMPROVING SELF-EFFICACY OF FINANCIALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS VIA AUTONOMOUS DESIGN AND BUILD PROJECT

通过自主设计和建造项目提高经济困难学生的自我效能