Supporting Undergraduates for Careers in Computing and Engineering with Scholarships and Supervision II

通过奖学金和监督支持本科生在计算机和工程领域的职业生涯 II

• 批准号: 2221581
• 负责人: Dulal Kar
• 金额: $ 105.22万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
• 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=2221581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Undergraduates; Careers; Computing; Engineering

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 Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). TAMUCC is a Hispanic-Serving and a minority-serving institution in South Texas that serves a large proportion of Pell eligible and transfer students. Over its 6-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 24 first-year and transfer undergraduate students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Computer Science and will receive up to four-years of scholarship support. Building on a prior S-STEM award, the project aims to increase student retention and graduation of scholars through effective co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, such as mentoring, academic counselling, first-year learning communities, undergraduate research, internships, professional development seminars, graduate school preparation and scientific conferences. The project will retain scholars through a cohort-based learning community augmented by support services tailored for freshmen and transfer students. With the support of a team of faculty, industry, and peer mentors, students will progress towards graduation and prepare to enter graduate school or the workforce. Because TAMUCC has a high population of underrepresented Hispanic students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and to learn how mentoring, first-year learning communities, and research, support retention and graduation of this student population.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields. There are three specific aims. First is to recruit 24 low-income, talented undergraduates, including incoming freshmen and community college transfer students majoring in the nation’s critical fields of engineering and computer science. Second is to retain scholars to degree achievement in designated fields. The third objective is to increase the graduation rates of the scholars. The project will examine impacts of participating in co-curricular activities such as, the first-year learning community, mentoring, internships, research experiences and professional development activities on retention and graduation rates. Project results will be compared to the prior S-STEM cohorts as well as to non-scholars in the same majors. In particular, the project has the potential to advance understanding of how a first-year learning community in engineering and computer science increases retention of first-year students. The project’s evaluation strategies include both internal and external processes to determine programmatic adjustments to project strategies and summative information to determine the project's impact. The results will be shared with the campus community through seminars and disseminated more broadly at national engineering conferences and publications in education journals. 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，通过支持高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，在德克萨斯州A＆M University-University-Corrpus Christi（TAMUCC）中表现出财务需求。 TAMUCC是南德克萨斯州的西班牙裔服务和少数族裔服务机构，为佩尔的合格和转学学生提供了很大一部分。在其6年的持续时间内，该项目将为攻读工程和计算机科学学士学位的24年第一年和转学本科生提供奖学金，并将获得多达四年的奖学金支持。该项目以先前的S型奖为基础，旨在通过有效的课外活动和课外活动来提高学生的保留和学者毕业，例如心理，学术咨询，第一年学习社区，本科研究，实习生，专业发展节目，研究生学校，研究生学校的准备和科学会议。该项目将通过一个基于队列的学习社区来保留学者，该社区由针对新生和转学学生量身定制的支持服务增强。在一个教职员工，行业和同伴导师团队的支持下，学生将晋升为研究生院，并准备进入研究生院或劳动力。由于TAMUCC人数不足的西班牙裔学生人数众多，因此该项目有可能扩大参与STEM领域的参与，并了解如何进行心理，第一年学习社区以及研究，支持该学生人数的保留和毕业。有三个特定的目标。首先是招募24名低收入，才华横溢的本科生，包括新生和社区大学的转学学生，在该国工程和计算机科学关键领域主修。其次是将学者保留在指定领域的学位成就。第三个目标是提高学者的毕业率。该项目将研究参加参加课外活动的影响，例如第一年学习社区，心理，创立者，研究经验和专业发展活动对保留和研究生率。将将项目结果与以前的S-STEM同伙以及同一专业的非督军进行比较。特别是，该项目有可能提高对工程和计算机科学第一年学习社区的了解如何增加一年级学生的保留。该项目的评估策略包括内部和外部流程，以确定对项目策略和总结信息的程序调整，以确定项目的影响。结果将与校园社区通过半岛共享，并在教育期刊的国家工程会议和出版物中更广泛地传播。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。