Bridging Institutions to Decrease Gaps in Engineering Education

搭建机构桥梁，缩小工程教育差距

• 批准号: 2225128
• 负责人: Jeyoung Woo
• 金额: $ 99.85万
• 依托单位: Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc.
• 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 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225128&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridging; Institutions; Decrease; Gaps; Engineering

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Implementation and Evaluation (Track 2) project will decrease the gaps in engineering education for transfer students and increase their success by focusing on a “transfer-ready” curriculum with support from a faculty learning community. The State of California, which has the largest four-year public university system in the United States, does not have an Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT) in Engineering. Therefore, the majority of engineering students who transfer from community colleges do not take lower-division engineering courses. This prolongs the time needed to complete an engineering degree to an average of five-to-six years. At the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (CPP), the two-year graduation rate for engineering transfer students in the Fall 2021 semester was 6.0%, which is much lower than the university average (33.1%). The additional years needed to graduate add to the financial burden for transfer students, as they must pay additional tuition and expenses. The "Bridging Institutions to Decrease Gaps in Engineering Education" team (or BRIDGE Education team) includes faculty at CPP and three partnering institutions, Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC), Citrus College, and Victor Valley College who will collaborate on transfer student success in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CPP. Because transfer students constitute a large percentage of students entering engineering programs, it is important to foster their success in obtaining baccalaureate degrees in a timely manner, which will prove a significant step in mitigating equity gaps among engineering students.Three specific aims guide the execution of the project. First is to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) that impact transfer students’ success. Second is to create a framework to yield “transfer ready” students by implementing the Transfer Pathway program. Third and finally, is to offer more diverse lower-division engineering courses through course development and a faculty learning community (FLC). The BRIDGE project will minimize transfer students’ struggles and maximize their performance after transferring. In addition, the BRIDGE project can be developed and incorporated into other engineering disciplines and strengthen state-wide efforts to support transfer students’ success by offering an Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT) in Engineering. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该实施和评估（轨道2）项目将减少转学生工程教育的差距，并通过专注于“准备好转移”的课程来增加他们的成功，并得到教师学习社区的支持。加州拥有美国最大的四年制公立大学系统，但没有工程学副学士学位。因此，大多数从社区学院转来的工程专业学生不修低年级的工程课程。这将完成工程学位所需的时间缩短到平均五到六年。在加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校（CPP），2021年秋季学期工科转学生两年毕业率为6.0%，远低于大学平均水平（33.1%）。毕业所需的额外时间增加了转学生的经济负担，因为他们必须支付额外的学费和费用。“桥梁机构，以减少工程教育的差距”团队（或桥梁教育团队）包括教师在CPP和三个合作机构，山。圣安东尼奥学院（Mt. SAC），柑橘学院和维克托山谷学院谁将合作在土木工程系和机械工程系在CPP转学生的成功。由于转学生在进入工程专业的学生中占很大比例，因此及时培养他们成功获得学士学位非常重要，这将证明是缩小工程专业学生之间公平差距的重要一步。首先是确定影响转学生成功的关键成功因素（CSF）。第二是建立一个框架，通过实施转学途径计划来培养"准备好转学"的学生。第三，也是最后一点，是通过课程开发和教师学习社区（FLC）提供更多样化的低年级工程课程。BRIDGE项目将最大限度地减少转学生的挣扎，并最大限度地提高他们在转学后的表现。此外，桥梁项目可以开发并纳入其他工程学科，并加强全州范围内的努力，以支持转学生的成功，提供工程副学士学位（ADT）。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于HSIs的多样性和背景，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（i）参与学生学习，（ii）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（iii）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。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来提供支持。