Motivated Engineering Transfer Students (METS)

这个探索性项目将与亚利桑那州立大学？年代(ASU吗?5) Ira A. Fulton工程学院和亚利桑那州的三所社区学院（cc）。该项目旨在显著增加社区学院转学生的数量，特别是女性和少数族裔学生，他们毕业时获得工程和计算机科学学士学位。目标学生群体是在亚利桑那州CCs和当地高中参加微积分预科/微积分，工程，生物，化学，物理和地质学课程的高中和社区大学学生。合作伙伴亚利桑那西部、亚利桑那中部和科奇斯学院之所以被选中，是因为它们拥有大量未开发的工程人才，女性和代表性不足的少数族裔比例很高，而且它们热情地接受了与学生接触的愿景，努力吸引他们从事令人兴奋的工程职业。帮助阻止美国和永久居民学生获得工程学位的减少对我们未来的竞争力很重要。这个项目将在全国范围内影响大学与cc的互动。它还将大大提高我们对哪些干预措施最有效地鼓励CC学生，包括女性和少数民族学生，进入工程领域并将他们过渡到四年的工程项目的理解。另一个结果将是探索大学- cc -高中-家长合作如何以及在多大程度上影响这些干预措施。这些拓展工作将告知并鼓励更多犹豫不决的学生考虑工程学。此外，以研究为重点的METS项目将培养出更多对工程机会（包括读研）有更广阔视野的工程师。

This exploratory project will form a partnership between Arizona State University?s (ASU?s) Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and three community colleges (CCs) across the state of Arizona. The program is designed to significantly increase the number of community college transfer students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, who graduate with B.S. degrees in engineering and computer science. Student populations to be targeted are high school and community college students enrolled in pre-calculus/calculus, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, and geology courses at Arizona CCs and their local high schools. The partners, Arizona Western, Central Arizona, and Cochise CCs have been selected because they possess a significant pool of untapped engineering talent, a high percentage of women and underrepresented minorities, and they have enthusiastically embraced the vision to reach out to students in an effort to attract them to exciting engineering careers. It is important to our future competitiveness to help stem the decrease of U.S. and permanent resident students earning engineering degrees. This project will impact university-CC interactions across the nation. It will also significantly improve our understanding of which interventions are most effective in encouraging CC students, including women and minority students, into engineering and transitioning them to a four-year engineering programs. Another result will be an exploration of how and to what extent university-CC-high school-parents collaborations impact these interventions. The outreach efforts will inform and encourage more undecided students to consider engineering. Moreover, the METS program, with its emphasis on research, will produce more engineers with a broadened view of engineering opportunities, including graduate school.