Empowering Students to Succeed in Engineering and Computer Science

该项目将通过支持圣何塞州立大学（SJSU）软件工程、计算机工程和计算机科学专业的低收入、学术人才的吸引、保留和毕业，为国家对熟练工程师和科学家的需求做出贡献。由工程，科学和社会学教师的协作团队领导，该项目将提供两个连续的夏季丰富课程，从学生高中毕业生开始，并继续提供学术支持，参与活动，付费研究机会和奖学金。该项目的要素旨在提高学生的归属感，通过教师，员工，同行和硅谷技术专业人士的强大网络促进社区参与，并通过采用主动学习，文化相关和包容性的教学方法来加强学生的数学，物理和编程技能。该项目旨在通过关于成长心态和其他元认知工具的对话来增加学生对技术的归属感。这种方法将通过关注社区参与，技术技能和学术环境的支持，通过脚手架和信息会议有关高等教育过程的支持，旨在建立熟悉和舒适的大学环境。研究将为低收入、学术天赋好的学生提供有关学术成功和职业道路的知识，并作为加州州立大学系统和全国高等教育机构的模板。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，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for skilled engineers and scientists by supporting the attraction, retention, and graduation of low-income, academically talented, undergraduate students in software engineering, computer engineering, and computer science at San José State University (SJSU). Led by a collaborative team of faculty in engineering, the sciences, and sociology, the project will provide two consecutive summer enrichment programs starting when students are high school seniors, and continues with academic support, engagement activities, paid research opportunities, and scholarships throughout the students’ undergraduate careers. The elements of the project are designed to increase students’ sense of belonging, facilitate community engagement via a robust network of faculty, staff, peers, and Silicon Valley technology professionals, and strengthen students’ mathematics, physics, and programming skill sets by employing active learning, culturally relevant, and inclusive pedagogical approaches. The project will be designed to increase student belonging in technology via conversations about growth mindset and other metacognitive tools. This approach will be underpinned by a focus on community engagement, technical skills, and academic environment support via scaffolding and informational sessions about higher education processes aimed at building familiarity and comfort in the college environment. Research will generate knowledge about academic success and career pathways for low-income, academically talented, students and serve as a template for the California State University System, and for postsecondary institutions nationwide. 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.