Building Exceptional Talent in Engineering and Computing in the Utah Valley

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在犹他州谷大学（UVU）证明经济需要的保留和毕业。在为期6年的时间里，该项目将为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。在工程计算（BE-TEC）计划建设卓越人才将推进犹他州的工程和计算机科学计划，有助于高质量的干劳动力，并加强在一个大型的，开放招生大学干程序。该项目将促进学生的成功和完成学位，为低收入，学术才华的学生提供奖学金，证明经济需要长达四年，从他们的大一开始。奖学金获得者将得到以证据为基础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正在提高一所开放招生大学的能力，该大学的学生群体与以研究为重点的机构的学生群体明显不同，以吸引、留住工程和计算专业的研究生，并为他们为STEM专业做出贡献做好准备。该项目旨在改善STEM教育管道中几个机构确定的流失点，包括完成时间过长，兼职过多，辍学率高，以及妇女，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UVU广泛的，国家支持的，双招生计划和低收入服务夏季桥梁计划广泛招募。在“我是第一”和TRIO学生支持服务（SSS -低收入和第一代学生）方案中注册的本科生也将是招聘的目标。计划中的BE-TEC活动的协同作用有可能促进个别学生的变革经验，并帮助培养一支具有技术和软技能的人才队伍，以满足区域和国家的需求。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。

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.