The AMC-NSF Career Scholarships in Engineering and Computer Science

计算机科学(31)、工程-工程技术(58)、工程-其他(59)克利夫兰州立大学(CSU)先进制造中心(AMC)正在为来自CSU和三所地区社区学院的40名工程、工程技术和计算机科学专业的学生提供奖学金支持。AMC-NSF工程和计算机科学职业奖学金预计将从15名拥有大专学位的社区大学学生和25名拥有工程、工程技术或计算机科学学士学位的CSU学生毕业。招聘工作特别寻求增加妇女、少数群体和残疾人在上述目标专业的人数。所有奖学金获得者都会参加CSU先进制造中心(AMC)以应用为导向的工作体验，学年期间每周工作20小时，夏季每周工作40小时。AMC体验的一个独特特点是其赞助的工业项目具有跨学科、全周期的性质。工业公司带着真正的问题来到AMC，教职员工和学生共同努力，为这些问题创造解决方案。学生学习制造和技术工程，从构思一个想法到完成一个产品或过程。AMC学生的工作质量使100%的AMC学生获得了工作机会。这个奖学金项目有几个突出的特点。首先，通过将地区社区学院作为合作伙伴，鼓励可能在副学士学位水平停学的学生在四年制院校完成学业。其次，CSU招收的非全日制学生获得了招收全日制学生的动机，从而提高了留校率和毕业时间。第三，NSF 2500美元的拨款为转学学生和有经济需要的兼职学生带来了高达15,400美元的一揽子经济援助；这是联邦投资的非常高的回报率。最后，参加实习作为接受奖学金的一项要求在CSU是一种新的做法，并有可能涵盖CSU的其他奖学金项目。克利夫兰地区的制造商也获得了通过先进制造中心实习学习到的具有技术和管理技能的高素质毕业生的机会。

Computer Science (31), Engineering - Engineering Technology (58), Engineering - Other (59) The Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) at Cleveland State University (CSU) is administering scholarship support to 40 engineering, engineering technology, and computer science students from CSU and three area community colleges. The AMC-NSF Career Scholarships in Engineering and Computer Science expects to graduate 15 community college students with an associate's degree and 25 CSU students with a bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, or computer science. Recruitment efforts are particularly seeking to increase the numbers of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in the targeted majors above. All scholarship recipients participate in an application-oriented work experience at CSU's Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) for 20 hours a week during the academic year and 40 hours during the summer. One of the unique features of the AMC experience is the cross-disciplinary, full-cycle nature of the industrial projects it sponsors. Industrial companies come to the AMC with real problems and faculty, staff, and students work together to create solutions for those problems. Students learn manufacturing and technological engineering from conception of an idea to completion of a product or process. The quality of work produced by the AMC students leads to 100% of AMC students receiving job offers. Several features of this scholarship program stand out. First, by including area community colleges as partners, students who may stop at the associate degree level are encouraged to finish their studies at a four-year institution. Second, the part-time CSU students recruited gain the incentive to enroll full-time, thus improving retention and time-to-graduation rates. Third, the NSF grant of $2,500 results in a financial package of up to $15,400 for transfer students and part-time students with financial need; this is a very high rate of return on the federal investment. Finally, participation in an internship as a requirement of scholarship acceptance is a new practice at CSU, and has the potential to encompass other CSU scholarship programs. Cleveland-area manufacturers are also gaining access to highly qualified graduates with technical and managerial skills learned through the Advanced Manufacturing Center internship.