Strategic Plan to Enhance STEM Education and Research at AAMU

“加强AAMU STEM教育和研究的战略计划”是一项创新、全面、重点突出的方法，旨在加强阿拉巴马农业与机械大学（AAMU）的STEM教育。我们将通过提高教育质量、指导学生提高STEM本科生的毕业率、提高工科毕业生的基础工程考试合格率、增加STEM学生的招聘和保留、扩大教师和学生的研究机会、改进现有的STEM本科学生的STEM课程，以及为STEM教师提供专业发展，来实施STEM教育和研究计划。为了实现我们的目标，我们建议为工科学生制定一个辅导计划，以加强学生在STEM领域的基本技能，并为他们准备专业工程执照考试，制定一个STEM- si同伴辅导（补充指导）计划，制定一个暑期桥梁计划，为即将到来的STEM学生做准备，制定一个暑期大二数学计划，为STEM看门人课程，通过创建一系列先进的跨学科课程来加强STEM课程。扩大所有STEM相关学科的本科生研究，组织一系列关于整合网络基础设施资源（如视频播客和facebook群组）的教师发展研讨会，并与高等教育机构和工业界的知名学者举办STEM相关研讨会。我们的目标是减少低水平本科守门课程的人员流失，增加未被充分代表的少数民族学生进入STEM领域并从STEM领域毕业的人数，增加学生参与基于互动发现的本科研究，提高专业工程执照考试的通过率。

The "Strategic Plan to Enhance STEM Education and Research at AAMU" is an innovative, comprehensive, and focused approach to strengthening STEM education at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU). We will implement the STEM Education and Research program by enhancing the quality of education, mentoring students to improve graduation rates of STEM undergraduates, improving the Fundamental Engineering Exam passing rates for engineering graduates, increasing the recruitment and retention of STEM students, expanding research opportunities for faculty and students, enhancing existing STEM curricula for undergraduate STEM students, and providing professional development for STEM faculty.To achieve our goals, we propose to develop a tutoring program for engineering students to strengthen students' basic skills in STEM areas and prepare them for the Professional Engineering License exam, develop a STEM-SI Peer Tutoring (Supplemental Instruction) program, develop a Summer Bridge Program to prepare incoming STEM students, develop a Summer Sophomore Mathematics Program for STEM Gatekeeper courses, enhance STEM curricula by creating a series of advanced interdisciplinary courses, expand undergraduate research in all STEM related disciplines, organize a set of faculty development workshops on the integration of cyberinfrastucture resources such as video podcasts and facebook groups, and provide STEM related seminars with prominent scholars from institutions of higher education and industry.We are aiming for a reduction of attrition in lower level undergraduate gate-keeping courses, an increase in the number of under-represented minority students matriculating in and graduating from STEM fields, an increase in student participation in interactive discovery based undergraduate research, and an increase in the passing rate of the Professional Engineering License exam.