Rewarding Achievement and Promoting Success: Strategic Support to Foster Tomorrow's Diverse Engineers

南方卫理公会大学(SMU)的奖励成就和促进成功(RAP)计划支持整个工程学院(SOE)的28名一年级和二年级学生。该项目的目标是：1)增加新生班级的多样性(种族、性别、背景)，2)提高一年级和二年级学生的保留率，3)让学生掌握软技能，4)增加就业机会，5)加强大学与社区的关系。RAP计划包括一个影响社区机构和高中教育的外展部分。RAP计划将记录与该计划目标相关的量化数据，并对学生支持活动进行评估。该计划的结果将在整个大学内部传播，并有可能成为所有学生第一年体验的示范计划。此外，RAP计划将影响SOE预计的学生增长和性别平等倡议。工程教育研究所和德克萨斯州工程教育管道将在外部传播方面发挥重要作用。

The Rewarding Achievement and Promoting Success (RAPS) program at Southern Methodist University (SMU) supports 28 freshmen and sophomore students across the School of Engineering (SoE). The project aims to:1) increase the diversity (ethnicity, gender, background) of the freshman class,2) increase retention rates of first- and second-year students,3) equip students with soft skills,4) increase employment opportunities, and5) strengthen the university-community relations.The RAPS Program includes an outreach components that impact community agencies and high school education.The RAPS Program will record quantitative data that is tied to the objectives of the program and conduct evaluations of student support activities. The results of the program will be disseminated internally throughout the university and has the potential to serve as a model program for the first-year experience of all students. Additionally, the RAPS Program will impact the SoE projected student growth and the Gender Parity Initiative.The Institute for Engineering Education and the Texas Engineering Education Pipeline will be instrumental in external dissemination.