Building Exceptional Talent in Engineering and Computing in the Utah Valley

在犹他谷培养工程和计算领域的杰出人才

• 批准号: 2130342
• 负责人: Afsaneh Minaie
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Utah Valley 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: 2021-10-15 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130342&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Exceptional; Talent; Engineering; Computing

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 Utah Valley University (UVU). Over its 6-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 36 students who are pursuing degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Software Engineering. The Building Exceptional Talent in Engineering & Computing (BE-TEC) program will advance Utah’s Engineering and Computer Science Initiative, contribute to a high-quality STEM workforce, and strengthen STEM programs at a large, open-admissions university. The project will promote student success and degree completion by providing scholarships to low-income, academically talented students with demonstrated financial need for up to four years, beginning in their freshman year. Scholarship recipients will be supported by evidence-based high impact activities, including intentional faculty mentoring, professional internships, collaborative design projects, leadership opportunities, and senior capstone projects. BE-TEC is enhancing the capability of an open-enrollment university with a markedly different student population from those at research-focused institutions to attract, retain, and graduate students in engineering and computing and prepare them to contribute to their STEM professions. The project aims to ameliorate several institutionally identified attrition points in the STEM educational pipeline, including excessive time to completion, excessive part-time work, a high dropout rate, and low participation and completion rates of women, minorities, and first-generation students. The project will recruit broadly through UVU’s extensive, state-supported, dual-enrollment programs and its low-income serving summer-bridge programs. Enrolled undergraduates in the "I Am First" and TRIO Student Support Services (SSS – for low-income and first-generation students) programs will also be targets for recruitment. The synergy of planned BE-TEC activities has the potential of facilitating transformative experiences for individual students and of helping prepare a talented workforce with the technical and soft skills to meet regional and national needs. 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.

该项目将通过支持犹他谷大学（UVU）表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，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。该计划为期6年，将为36名攻读电气工程、计算机工程、计算机科学和软件工程学位的学生提供奖学金。建设工程与计算杰出人才（BE-TEC）计划将推进犹他州的工程和计算机科学计划，为高质量的STEM劳动力做出贡献，并加强大型开放招生大学的STEM项目。该项目将通过向低收入、有学术天赋、有经济需要的学生提供奖学金，促进学生的成功和学位的完成，从大一开始，为期四年。奖学金获得者将获得基于证据的高影响力活动的支持，包括有意的教师指导、专业实习、协作设计项目、领导机会和高级顶点项目。BE-TEC正在提高开放招生大学的能力，这些大学的学生人数与研究型机构的学生人数明显不同，以吸引、留住工程和计算机专业的学生和研究生，并为他们为STEM专业做出贡献做好准备。该项目旨在改善STEM教育管道中制度确定的几个摩擦点，包括完成时间过长、兼职工作过多、辍学率高、女性、少数民族和第一代学生的参与率和完成率低。该项目将通过弗吉尼亚大学广泛的，国家支持的，双招生项目和低收入服务的夏季桥梁项目广泛招募。“我是第一”和TRIO学生支持服务（SSS -针对低收入和第一代学生）项目的在册本科生也将成为招聘目标。BE-TEC计划活动的协同作用有可能促进个别学生的变革经验，并帮助培养具有技术和软技能的有才能的劳动力，以满足区域和国家的需要。该项目由美国国家科学基金会的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，旨在增加有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，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。