Access for Engineering Excellence

该项目通过项目和经济资助，帮助工程学院成绩好但成绩不好的学生，使他们在课程中有更好的表现，并将他们的成绩提高到荣誉地位。具体目标包括：提高中档(GPA 3.0-3.4)学生的学习技能和工科专业学生的群体认同感；增加学生可用于课程作业和特殊项目的时间，以扩大学生在工程方面的经验；以及增加获得课外工作经验的机会。学生获得荣誉地位的优势包括优先安排课程，有资格入选学科荣誉称号，以及有资格获得深入的荣誉体验，如荣誉实习和高级荣誉论文研究项目。此外，毕业于GPA 3.4的学生在就业和进入研究生课程方面处于更有利的地位。为了实现这些目标，该项目提供了一系列经济奖学金援助，以减少与工作相关的工作量，学术支持计划，以及延长获得非季度实习的机会。预计每年将有大约50名学生参加，该计划将持续到毕业。符合条件的学生包括所有年龄段和工程领域的本科生。此外，该项目是一个试点项目，生成的初步数据将提交给行业赞助商，这些赞助商将被要求为有更多参与者的长期计划提供持续的运营支持。卓越工程学的学术价值包括生成关于经济援助和学术支持机制评估的新跟踪数据，以提高GPA中档学生的成绩，并使这些学生有更多机会获得丰富的本科生经验，并为毕业后的就业和研究生就业奠定更好的地位。拟议项目的更广泛影响是，更多受过更好教育的工程师进入工作场所或研究生院。此外，该项目学生的目标年级范围内有大量女性和少数族裔，在这些群体中培养出准备更好的工程师。

This project assists students with good but not honors status in the College of Engineering through programs and financial aid to enable better performance in their coursework and improve their grade standing to honors status. Specific goals include: improve midrange (GPA 3.0-3.4) student study skills and sense of group identity for engineering majors; improve the amount of student time available for coursework and special projects that expand the student experience in engineering; and improve opportunities for off quarters work experiences. The advantages of students gaining honors status include priority scheduling of classes, eligibility for selection in discipline honoraries, and eligibility for in-depth honors experiences such as honors internships and senior honors thesis research projects. Furthermore, students graduating with GPA 3.4 are better positioned for job placement and entrance to graduate programs. To achieve the goals, the project is providing a combination of financial scholarship aid to reduce job related workload, academic support programs, and extended access to off quarter internships. Approximately 50 students are anticipated to participate annually, with continuation in the program through graduation. Eligible students include undergraduate students from all years and fields of engineering. In addition, this project is a pilot project generating preliminary data to present to industrial sponsors who will be solicited to provide ongoing operating support for a long term program with more participants. The intellectual merit of the Access for Engineering Excellence includes the generation of new tracking data on the assessment of financial aid and academic support mechanisms to improve grades of midrange GPA students and to enable these students with more opportunities for rich undergraduate experiences and better positioning for post-graduation job placement and graduate school. The broader impact of the proposed project is a higher number of better educated engineers entering the workplace or graduate school. Furthermore, the target grade range for students in the project is rich with women and minorities, producing better prepared engineers in these groups.