PPD: Model Program for Hearing Impaired and Deaf Students in Engineering

9353824 Wankat该项目将为普渡大学的聋人和重听学生开发一个工程示范项目并使之制度化。 该计划将侧重于为希望在主流环境中学习工程的聋人和重听学生提供学术支持和社会融合。 重点将放在促进这些学生的保留上，因为数据表明，聋人和重听学生的流失率比听力正常的学生高三分之一。 项目工作人员还将与大学的工程合作办公室和公司合作，为重听或失聪的学生提供工作机会。 该计划还将包含一个招聘组成部分，针对大学预科学生谁是聋人或听力困难。 招聘活动将集中在鼓励合格的高中毕业生参加普渡大学，并鼓励学生在小学到高中留在数学和科学课程，使他们有资格在大学工程，数学和科学。 将努力说服辅导员，家长和教师，工程是一个很好的职业机会，重听和聋人学生。 此外，还将设计和开发一个全国性的计算机电子网络，供有兴趣学习工程学的聋人和重听学生使用。 该网络将作为高中生，他们的父母和教师之间的联系;目前在工程或有兴趣转入工程的大学生;工程教授;和执业工程师。 该网络应有助于留住人才，并为招收更多聋人和重听学生进入工程专业提供基础。 有关该方案的方法和结果以及电子网络的信息将在美国各地传播给工程学院和致力于聋人和重听学生教育的组织，以促进类似方案的制定。

9353824 Wankat This project will develop and institutionalize a model program for deaf and hard of hearing students in engineering at Purdue University. The program will focus on providing academic support and social integration for deaf and hard of hearing students who want to study engineering in a mainstreamed environment. Emphasis will be placed on promoting retention of these students because data indicate that attrition rates for deaf and hard of hearing students are one-third higher than for hearing students. Program staff will also work with the University's Engineering Co-op Office and with companies to make jobs available to the students who are hard of hearing or deaf. The program will also contain a recruitment component aimed at pre- college students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The recruitment activities will concentrate on both encouraging qualified high school seniors to attend Purdue and on encouraging students in grade school through high school to stay in mathematics and science courses so that they will be eligible for engineering, mathematics, and science in college. Efforts will be made to convince counselors, parents and teachers that engineering is an excellent career opportunity for hard of hearing and deaf students. In addition, a national computer electronic network for deaf and hard of hearing students interested in studying engineering will be designed and developed. This network will serve as a linkage between high school students, their parents and teachers; current college students in engineering or interested in transferring into engineering; engineering professors; and practicing engineers. The network should help in the retention efforts and should provide a basis for recruiting more deaf and hard of hearing students into engineering. Information on the program's methodology and results and the electronic network will be disseminated throughout the United States to engineering colleges and to organizations inte rested in the education of deaf and hard of hearing students to promote development of similar programs.