NSF Scholars Program

该项目为工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学专业的高年级学生提供奖学金。虽然申请将向所有寻求支持的人开放，但将向指定专业的所有高年级拉丁裔、非裔美国人和美洲原住民学生发出特别邮件和联系，鼓励他们申请。这所大学是一所大型的，城市，西班牙裔服务，理工大学，主要是第一代大学生的多元化人口。工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学领域经济弱势、代表性不足的学生数量庞大。为拉丁美洲人，非洲裔美国人和美洲原住民制定的完善，全面的保留计划旨在提供咨询，指导，跟踪和专业发展支持，以缩短奖学金获得者的毕业时间。两所学院的项目工作人员和教师之间的积极合作为学者提供了全面的支持系统。通过这个奖学金计划，获奖者有动力在他们的课程安排变得更有效率，他们得到及时的建议，在构建他们的剩余课程工作做出明智的选择。行业合作伙伴积极参与简历评论，模拟面试，“与行业的夜晚”和学者招待会都有助于提高他们的工作准备。NSF学者从校园的行业合作伙伴那里获得暑期工作的第一考虑。因此，NSF学者计划增加了经济困难的学生减少在校工作时间的可能性，他们与学术顾问有更密切的联系，并且他们增加了与高科技雇主的互动。因此，该计划应大大增加高素质的CSEM学生及时毕业并准备好在行业中承担责任的可能性。

This project awards scholarships to upper- division students in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics. While the applications are to be open to all who seek the support, special mailings and contact is to be made to all upper-division Latino, African American, and Native American students in the designated majors, encouraging them to apply. The university is a large, urban, Hispanic-serving, polytechnic university with a diverse population of largely first-generation college students. The pool of economically disadvantaged under-represented students in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics is large. The well-established, comprehensive retention programs for Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans serve to provide the advising, mentoring, tracking, and professional development support so necessary to shorten the time to graduation for the scholarship recipients. The active collaboration among program staff and faculty in the two colleges provides a comprehensive support system for the scholars. Through this scholarship program, the recipients have an incentive to become more efficient in their course scheduling and they are given timely advising to make wise choices in structuring their remaining course work. The active involvement of industry partners in resume critiques, mock interviews, an "evening with industry," and a scholars reception all serve to increase their job readiness. The NSF Scholars receive first consideration for summer job placement from the campus' industry partners. Thus the NSF Scholars Program increases the likelihood that financially needy students decrease their hours worked while in school, that they have closer contact with their academic advisors, and that they have increased interaction with high tech employers. Therefore, the program should greatly increase the likelihood that highly qualified CSEM students graduate in a timely fashion and exit college ready to assume positions of responsibility in industry.