A Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship Program: Building Upon an Industry-Academia Foundation

“汽车行业下一代制造工程师”项目为对汽车行业制造业各个方面感兴趣的学生提供奖学金。 所有工程学院的课程，以及计算机科学和数学受益于该项目。该项目加强了现有的联盟和资源，以及与整个中南地区的社区学院和行业赞助商的合作伙伴关系。该项目的智力价值是补充大学内的现有资源，以促进经济困难，具有学术潜力的高年级本科CSEM学生的生活改变，环境变化。 提供奖学金，并在大三和大四之间提供暑期工业或研究实习。CSEMS学生成为学术文化的一个组成部分，并采取更多的辅导，同伴指导，职业发展，研究，学生合作，以及通过充分参与大学社区获得的其他学术和个人优势的优势。该项目的更广泛的影响是通过以下目标实现的，每个目标都有具体的，可衡量的成果，分析这些成果以不断改进该计划：i）通过奖学金和咨询减少CSEM毕业生的财务债务，ii）通过增加学生参与教师资助研究的机会或通过与项目的行业合作伙伴批准的合作社或暑期实习，减少从事非智力工作的CSEM学生人数，iii）透过院校与业界伙伴的关系，改善就业安排，让学生能顺利过渡到热门职位，iv）提高CSEM学生的毕业率，特别是少数民族和女学生，五）减少平均时间，以学位完成CSEM学生，六）增加谁在研究生院注册的CSEM毕业生的数量。这些目标是通过学生环境的改造，一对一的咨询和辅导服务，奖学金，保留和干预，专业发展和研究活动，和工业合作，同时利用而不是取代现有资源。该项目努力保持我们的基线CSEMS奖项的代表性不足，其中包括52%的少数民族和40%的女性。一个由来自田纳西河流域管理局（TVA）、联邦快递公司（FedEx）、Solae公司、赖特医疗技术公司、陆军工程兵团将挑选并指导接受者。

The "Next Generation of Manufacturing Engineers for the Automotive Sector" project provides scholarships for students interested in all aspects of manufacturing for the automotive sector. All College of Engineering programs, as well as computer science and mathematics benefit from the project. The project strengthens existing alliances and resources, as well as partnerships with community colleges and industry sponsors throughout the Mid-South region.The intellectual merit of the project is to supplement existing resources within the University to facilitate a life-altering, environmental change for financially disadvantaged, upper-division undergraduate CSEM students with academic potential. Scholarships are provided supplemented with summer industry or research internships between the junior and senior years. CSEMS students become an integral part of the academic culture and take more advantage of tutoring, peer mentoring, career development, research, student collaboration, as well as other academic and personal advantages gained by being fully engaged in the University community.The broader impact of the project is achieved via the following objectives, each with specific, measurable outcomes, which are analyzed to continually improve the program: i) to decrease the financial debt of CSEM graduates via scholarships and counseling, ii) to decrease the number of CSEM students working in non-intellectually engaging jobs by increasing opportunities for students to work on a faculty member's funded research or through approved co-op or summer internships with industry partners of the project, iii) to improve employment placement in highly sought-after positions via the institution's relationship with industry partners who support seamless transition of internships into full-time positions, iv) to increase the graduation rate of CSEM students, particularly minority and female students, v) to decrease the average time to degree completion for CSEM students and, vi) to increase the number of CSEM graduates who enroll in graduate school.These objectives are achieved through a unique combination of student environment modifications, one-on-one counseling and tutoring services, scholarships, retention and intervention, professional development and research activities, and industrial collaborations while leveraging and not replacing existing resources. The project strives to maintain the underrepresented participation from our baseline CSEMS awards, which consisted of 52% minorities and 40% females. A committee of faculty, staff and industry partners from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Federal Express Corporation (FedEx), The Solae Company, Wright Medical Technology, Inc., and the Army Corps of Engineers will select and mentor the recipients.