EMSW21-MCTP: Colorado Advantage

MCTP：科罗拉多优势提案将建立在现有的计划和部门内的努力，以及在校园（如智能程序）。MCTP：科罗拉多优势将继续通过与科罗拉多多样性倡议积极合作，吸引数量不足的学生到数学科学。来自国家基金会资助的MCTP的支持：科罗拉多优势将使该部门制定和实施可持续发展战略，如重新分配现有部门资源的时间，与院长（工程和艺术&科学院长）和教务长合作，以获得额外的资源，以及与能够捐赠本科生奖学金的成功捐助者合作。该部门的17名教职员工强烈支持这一MCTP提案。 这一建议的智力价值是介绍了大量的本科生兴奋的研究，并激发他们的兴趣，进一步他们的数学教育。 该部实现这一目标的能力可以从其1999年开始的VIGRE赠款的记录中推断出来，该赠款培训了54名本科生。 在MCTP的更广泛的影响：科罗拉多优势计划是，它将显着增加谁采取更先进的数学课程的学生人数;谁拥有工作的重大长期项目和研究项目的变革机会的专业的数量;和谁从应用数学系毕业的学生人数，并为研究生院和科学劳动力做好准备。此外，它通过创造本科生研究活动的文化对大学其他本科生产生倍增效应，将对整个大学产生长期影响。一个额外的影响将是对研究生和教师谁成为参与这些关键的导师活动，因为他们追求自己的职业生涯。最后，MCTP：科罗拉多优势建议是一个模式，可以在任何研究型大学，有一个研究生课程，教师致力于本科教育和意志，以改变自己。

The MCTP: Colorado Advantage proposal will build on existing programs and efforts within the department as well as on campus (e.g. SMART program). MCTP: Colorado Advantage will continue to attract numbers of underrepresented students to the mathematical sciences by actively collaborating with the Colorado Diversity Initiative. Support from NSF-funded MCTP: Colorado Advantage will allow the department to develop and implement strategies for sustainability, such as time for re-tasking existing department resources, working with the Deans (Engineering and Arts & Sciences Deans) and Provost to gain additional resources as well as working with successful donors capable of endowing undergraduate scholarships. The 17 faculty members in the department strongly endorse this MCTP proposal. The intellectual merit of this proposal is to introduce a large number of undergraduates to the excitement of research and to stimulate their interest in furthering their mathematical education. The ability of the Department to meet this objective can be inferred from its record with its previous VIGRE grant, which began in 1999, and trained 54 undergraduates. Among the broader impacts of the MCTP: Colorado Advantage program are that it will significantly increase the number of students who take more advanced mathematics courses; the number of majors who have the transformative opportunity of working on serious longer term projects and research projects; and the number of students who graduate from the Department of Applied Mathematics and are well prepared for graduate school and the scientific workforce. Further its multiplier effect on other undergraduates at the University through the creation of a culture of undergraduate research activity will have longer-term implications for the University as a whole. An additional impact will be on graduate students and faculty who become involved in these critical mentorship activities as they pursue their own careers. Finally, the MCTP: Colorado Advantage proposal is a model that can be used at any research university that has a graduate program, faculty committed to undergraduate education and a will to transform itself.