NSF Future Scholars Program

NSF未来学者计划将颁发36个学年2500美元的奖学金，为期四年，从2006-2009年。这是在最大化工程潜力(MEP)的赞助下成功的NSF未来学者计划的继续，该计划将于2005年12月结束。新的NSF CSEMS项目允许该计划再持续四年。该方案的主要目标是：增加在工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学领域毕业的经济困难学生的数量，包括代表性不足的少数族裔和妇女；并提高参与学生的教育成就和职业发展。奖学金颁发给两组学生-1)10个奖项给一年级和二年级的学生，2)26个奖项给工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学专业的高年级学生。对大一和大二学生的奖励帮助学生在大学教育关键的头两年处于过渡期，而对高年级学生的奖励则提供经济援助，帮助他们在最后几年获得学位。更广泛的影响：这所大学是一所规模庞大的城市大学，服务于拉美裔美国人，是一所理工大学，人口多样化，主要是第一代大学生。在工程、工程技术、计算机科学和数学方面，经济上处于不利地位、代表性不足的学生人数很多。Cal Poly Pomona在工程学院和科学学院为历史上代表性不足的学生提供了强有力的、完善的保留计划，这些计划与NSF CSEMS学生一起工作。这些计划为奖学金获得者提供必要的建议、指导、跟踪和职业发展支持，以留住、提高成就和缩短毕业时间。两所学院的项目工作人员和教职员工的积极合作为学者提供了一个全面的支持系统。智力优势：通过这一奖学金计划，获奖者有动力提高他们的课程安排效率，得到及时的建议，在组织他们的课程工作时做出明智的选择，并可以减少他们在学校的工作时间。行业积极参与学生职业发展活动，增加了他们的就业准备，并使他们优先考虑与行业合作伙伴的暑期工作安排。

The NSF Future Scholars Program is awarding thirty-six $2,500 academic year scholarships for a four-year period from 2006-2009. This continues a successful NSF Future Scholars program under the auspices of Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP), which ends Dec. 2005. The new NSF CSEMS project allows the program to continue for another four-year period. The principal goals of the program are: to increase the number of financially disadvantaged students, including under represented minorities and women, who graduate in the fields of Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science and Mathematics; and to enhance the educational achievement and professional development of participating students. The scholarships are awarded to two cohorts of students- 1) ten awards to freshman and sophomores, and 2) twenty-six awards to upper-division students, majoring in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics. Awards for freshman and sophomore students help students in their transitional period during the crucial first two years of their college education, while awards to upper division students provide financial assistance to facilitate the final years toward a degree. Broader Impact: The university is a large, urban, Hispanic-serving, polytechnic university with a diverse population of largely first-generation college students. The pool of economically disadvantaged, under-represented students in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and mathematics is large. Cal Poly Pomona has strong, well-established retention programs in the Colleges of Engineering and Science for historically under-represented students which work with the NSF CSEMS students. These programs provide the advising, mentoring, tracking, and professional development support necessary to retain, enhance achievement, and shorten the time to graduation for the scholarship recipients. The active collaboration among program staff and faculty in the two colleges provides a comprehensive support system for the scholars. Intellectual Merit: Through this scholarship program, the recipients have an incentive to become more efficient in their course scheduling, are given timely advising to make wise choices in structuring their course work, and can reduce the hours they work while in school. The active involvement of industry in student professional development activities increases their job readiness, and gives them priority consideration for summer job placement with industry partners.