CSEMS IV at CAL

这项工作建立在以前和当前的CSEMS奖项的基础上。CSEMS IV在四年的时间里跟踪一名一年级和二年级的学生，并向29名经济困难的学生颁发奖学金，特别强调来自工程和科学领域代表性不足群体的学生。CSEMS奖学金的招募对象为三组：1)2003年秋季或2004年春季入学的新生，2)参加2003年夏季多元文化工程项目预科项目的新生，以及3)参加由数学、科学和工程卓越与多样性联盟提供的暑期迎新活动的大一和大二学生。这一群体包括工程学院的学生、化学学院的化学工程专业的学生以及科学学院的学生，他们正在完成课程，以便(A)在文学与科学学院攻读计算机科学或数学专业，或(B)在工程学院攻读专业。来自联盟学术支持项目的教职员工委员会选择学生。智力优势：CSEMS学者参与各种与保留相关的活动，这些活动与代表不足的工程学学生中心、数学、科学和工程卓越与多样性联盟、EECS本科生中心和其他合作伙伴计划的现有学生支持基础设施有关。这包括教员建议、学术卓越研讨会、辅导、指导、建议、行业实习和/或研究经验，以及研究生院申请或就业安置方面的协助。CSEMS IV项目的一个统一主题是通过帮助每个学生发展成为工程学和学术界的坚定成员来增加学生的保留率。更广泛的影响：能够满足劳动力对计算机科学和工程专业人员需求的合格学生数量日益短缺。学生的经济问题越来越有可能中断和推迟他们的学位完成。经济需求可能是及时完成工程学学位的一个更严重的障碍--技术课程负担往往与长时间的外部工作不相容。事实上，CSEMS IV项目的奖学金支持也有助于学生通过与经济义务不一定相关的活动来丰富他们的教育经验，如本科生研究、辅导和教学。通过减少学生毕业后的贷款债务，这些奖学金还可能鼓励学生在进入技术劳动力大军之前攻读研究生学位。

This work builds on previous and current CSEMS awards. CSEMS IV follows a single cohort of freshman and sophomore students over a four-year period, and awards scholarships to twenty-nine economically disadvantaged students, with a special emphasis on students from underrepresented groups in engineering and science. Recruitment of the CSEMS Scholars targets three groups: 1) freshmen admitted for Fall 2003 or Spring 2004, 2) freshmen participating in the Multicultural Engineering Program Summer 2003 Pre-Engineering Program, and 3) freshmen and sophomores participating in academic workshops and mathematics placement testing during summer orientation offered by the Coalition for Excellence and Diversity in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. This group includes students from majors in the College of Engineering, chemical engineering majors in the College of Chemistry, and students in the College of Letters in Science who are completing coursework to pursue (a) the computer science or mathematics majors in the College of Letters and Science or (b) a major in the College of Engineering. A committee of faculty and staff from Coalition academic support programs, which employs a comprehensive approach in evaluating each student's academic merit and professionalism, chooses students.Intellectual Merit: CSEMS scholars participate in a variety of retention-related activities tied to the existing student support infrastructure of the Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students, the Coalition for Excellence and Diversity in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, the EECS Center for Undergraduate Matters and other partner programs. This includes faculty advising, academic excellence workshops, tutoring, mentoring, advising, internships in industry and/or research experience, and assistance with graduate school applications or job placement. A unifying theme of the CSEMS IV program is the increase student retention by helping each student develop into a committed member of the engineering and academic community. Broader Impacts: There is an increasing shortfall in the number of qualified students that are able to fill the need for computer science and engineering professionals in the workforce. Students' financial troubles are increasingly likely to interrupt and delay their degree completion. Financial need is perhaps a more serious impediment to timely completion of engineering degrees -- the technical course load is often not compatible with long hours of outside work. Indeed, the scholarship support from the CSEMS IV program also facilitates students' ability to enrich their educational experience with activities that are not necessarily tied to financial obligations, such as undergraduate research, tutoring, and teaching. By decreasing students' loan debt upon graduation, these scholarships may also encourage students to pursue graduate degrees before entering the technical workforce.