A Community of Young Scholars: Achieving Student Diversification and Retention in Mechanical Engineering

该项目向学业上有天赋但经济上有困难的学生颁发奖学金，并支持这些学者确保他们的成功和最终毕业。招聘工作针对的是即将转学到大学并寻求机械工程学士学位的社区学院学生。对参与者的支持结构包括研究人员对学者的指导、跨学科工程研究研讨会和暑期研究机会。该计划的目标是招收、指导和毕业更多的机械工程专业学生，特别是未被充分代表的少数族裔学生；将研究纳入本科教育经验；为学生提供寻找就业和研究生的机会；并正式确立马里兰大学巴尔的摩县大学(UMBC)和马里兰州蒙哥马利社区学院之间的关系，以增加社区学院转到UMBC机械工程课程的人数。

This project is awarding scholarships to academically talented but financially needy students and is supporting the scholars to ensure their success and eventual graduation. Recruitment efforts are targeting community college students who are transferring to the university and seeking baccalaureate degrees in mechanical engineering. Support structures for participants include mentoring of scholars by research faculty, interdisciplinary engineering research seminars, and summer research opportunities. The goals of the program are to recruit, mentor and graduate increased numbers of students in mechanical engineering, with special emphasis on underrepresented minority students; to incorporate research in the undergraduate education experience; to provide students with opportunities to identify paths to employment and to graduate school; and to formalize a relationship between University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Montgomery Community College of Maryland to increase the number of community college students transferring to the mechanical engineering program at UMBC.