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低收入、有学术天赋的本科生的吸引、留住和毕业，来促进国家对熟练工程师和科学家的需求。该项目由工程、科学和社会学的教师组成的协作团队领导，将提供两个连续的暑期充实项目，从学生高三开始，并在学生的本科生涯中继续提供学术支持、参与活动、有偿研究机会和奖学金。该项目的内容旨在增加学生的归属感，通过强大的教职员工、同行和硅谷技术专业人员网络促进社区参与，并通过采用主动学习、与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，增加学生对技术的归属感。这种方法将通过脚手架和旨在在大学环境中建立熟悉和舒适的高等教育过程的信息会议，重点放在社区参与、技术技能和学术环境支持上。研究将为低收入、有学术天赋的学生创造关于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、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。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业成功、留住、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优势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.