Diversifying the West Texas civil and mechanical engineering workforce

西德克萨斯州土木和机械工程劳动力多元化

• 批准号: 2221250
• 负责人: William Kitch
• 金额: $ 149.97万
• 依托单位: Angelo State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Diversifying; West; Texas; civil; mechanical

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students at Angelo State University (ASU), a Hispanic Serving Instruction (HSI) located in West Texas. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 36 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in civil and mechanical engineering. The program will support both first-year students admitted directly to ASU and students transferring from 2-year institutions. First year students will receive up to four-year scholarships and transfer students will receive up to two- and one-half-year scholarships. The project aims to increase student success in engineering by linking scholarships with student cohorts, mentoring "familias" of peer, faculty and industry mentors, and proven student success programs. The inclusion of industry members in the mentoring familias is designed to provide professional networking opportunities to students and ease their transition to professional practice. With the large population of first-generation, low-income students at ASU and regional 2-year institutions, the project has the potential not only to broaden the participation of this population in engineering but also to increase knowledge regarding the effectiveness of industry mentorship in transitioning students into well-paying engineering jobs after graduation.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields. The project aims to diversify the West Texas engineering workforce by increasing the enrollment, retention, and graduation of low-income underrepresented students at ASU as well as to provide a pathway for students transferring from 2-year institutions. The use of cohorts and mentoring has been demonstrated to improve persistence in engineering. However, limited data exists on how industry mentoring affects student success and even less information is available on the effects of a combined industry, peer, and faculty mentor program. The data collected under this project should significantly add to the body of knowledge in engineering education research and support further research. Program data will be published in engineering education conference and journal papers. 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.

该项目将有助于通过支持在安吉洛州立大学（ASU），西班牙裔服务指令（HSI）位于西德克萨斯州的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业的国家需要受过良好教育的工程师。在六年的时间里，该项目将为36名攻读土木和机械工程学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。该计划将支持直接进入ASU的一年级学生和从2年制院校转学的学生。一年级学生将获得长达四年的奖学金，转学生将获得长达两年和一年半的奖学金。该项目旨在通过将奖学金与学生群体联系起来，指导同行，教师和行业导师的“家庭”，以及经过验证的学生成功计划，来提高学生在工程方面的成功。将行业成员纳入指导家庭旨在为学生提供专业网络机会，并方便他们向专业实践的过渡。由于ASU和区域2年制院校的第一代低收入学生人数众多，该项目不仅有可能扩大这一人群对工程的参与，而且还可以增加有关行业导师制在学生毕业后过渡到高薪工程工作方面的有效性的知识。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入学生的学位完成率，在STEM领域取得优异成绩的本科生。该项目旨在通过增加亚利桑那州立大学低收入代表性不足的学生的入学率，保留率和毕业率来实现西德克萨斯州工程劳动力的多元化，并为从2年制院校转学的学生提供途径。使用队列和指导已被证明可以提高工程的持久性。然而，有限的数据存在于行业指导如何影响学生的成功，甚至更少的信息是一个综合的行业，同行和教师导师计划的影响。在这个项目下收集的数据将大大增加工程教育研究的知识体系，并支持进一步的研究。项目数据将在工程教育会议和期刊论文上发表。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，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。