Scholarships, Mentoring, and Professional Support to Improve Engineering & Artificial Intelligence Student Success at Community Colleges

旨在改进工程的奖学金、指导和专业支持

• 批准号: 2220959
• 负责人: Fanny Silvestri
• 金额: $ 149.96万
• 依托单位: Maricopa County Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220959&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Mentoring; Professional; Support; Improve

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 Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Chandler-Gilbert Community College, a Hispanic Serving Institution is in the Southeast valley of Phoenix, Arizona where fast-growing high-tech manufacturing industries reside. Over its 6 year duration, this project will fund scholarships to at least 48 unique students who are pursuing Engineering, Engineering Technician, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning degrees. The project has the potential to contribute to the national needs for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by increasing the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students. The project team plans to educate a new generation of engineers and artificial intelligence specialists while collecting student success data. The project has the potential to benefit society by developing highly qualified personnel in the community to a growing high-tech workforce while promoting more racial, ethnic, and gender diversity to the engineering and artificial intelligence industries. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project is to make accessible specialized educational opportunities in Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Maricopa County. The project has three components: 1) providing 192 scholarships to at least 48 students; 2) maintaining the eligibility of the recipients by providing academic support; 3) organizing and facilitating extracurricular events, industry partnerships, and professional development. The project will be measured through three indicators: 1) participants will complete their degrees at a higher rate than non-participants; 2) participants will have a higher sense of belonging to the scientific community than their peers; 3) the monthly individual development plan completed by the scholars and their mentors will lead to course completion and scholarship eligibility through up to four semesters. The project team plans to evaluate the project using data collection, surveys, and statistical analysis. The results of the project will be shared with the STEM education community through annual reports, presentations at regional and national conferences, as well as 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.

该项目将通过支持钱德勒-吉尔伯特社区学院（Chandler-Gilbert Community College）表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，为满足全国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。钱德勒-吉尔伯特社区学院是一所西班牙裔服务机构，位于亚利桑那州凤凰城的东南山谷，那里有快速发展的高科技制造业。在为期6年的时间里，该项目将为至少48名攻读工程、工程技术员、人工智能和机器学习学位的学生提供奖学金。该项目有可能通过提高低收入家庭的优秀学生的留校率和毕业率，为满足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作出贡献。该项目团队计划在收集学生成功数据的同时，培养新一代工程师和人工智能专家。该项目有可能造福社会，将社区中的高素质人才培养成不断增长的高科技劳动力，同时促进工程和人工智能行业的种族、民族和性别多样性。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率。该项目旨在为马里科帕县提供工程、人工智能和机器学习方面的专业教育机会。该项目由三个部分组成：1)向至少48名学生提供192份奖学金；2)通过提供学术支持来维持受助人的资格；3)组织和促进课外活动、行业合作和专业发展。该项目将通过三个指标来衡量：1)参与者将以高于非参与者的速度完成学位；2)参与者对科学共同体的归属感高于同龄人；3)学者及其导师每月完成的个人发展计划将导致学生完成课程并获得最多四个学期的奖学金资格。项目团队计划使用数据收集、调查和统计分析来评估项目。该项目的成果将通过年度报告、在区域和国家会议上的演讲以及出版物与STEM教育界分享。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。