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Chandler-Gilbert社区学院表现出的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，以支持受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求。 Chandler-Gilbert社区学院是一家西班牙裔服务机构，位于亚利桑那州凤凰城的东南谷地，那里的高科技高科技产业居住。在其6年的持续时间内，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独特学生提供奖学金。该项目有可能通过增加高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，以满足受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求。该项目团队计划在收集学生成功数据的同时，教育新一代的工程师和艺术情报专家。该项目有可能通过在社区中发展高素质的人员来使社会受益，从而为不断增长的高科技劳动力提供，同时为工程和人工智能行业推广更多的种族，种族和性别多样性。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明财务需求，使低收入，高成就的大学生的本科生完成。该项目旨在在马里科帕县（Maricopa County）提供可访问的专业教育机会。该项目有三个组成部分：1）为至少48名学生提供192个奖学金； 2）通过提供学术支持来维持接收者的资格； 3）组织和支持课外活动，行业伙伴关系和专业发展。该项目将通过三个指标进行衡量：1）参与者将以比非参与者更高的速度完成学位； 2）参与者将对科学界有更高的归属感； 3）学者及其导师完成的每月个人发展计划将通过多达四个学期完成课程完成和奖学金资格。项目团队计划使用数据收集，调查和统计分析评估项目。该项目的结果将通过年度报告，区域和民族会议以及出版物与STEM教育社区共享。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加具有在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的低收入才华横溢的学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支​​持。