Engineering Practices with Impact Cohort (EPIC) Scholarship for High Achieving Women in Engineering

该项目提供奖学金，使伊丽莎白敦学院16名学术上有才华和经济上有困难的工程专业学生获得学士学位，并进入STEM工作队伍。它建立在与Project Forward Leap（一个支持内城或表现不佳学区学生教育成就的非营利组织），STEM-UP PA（一个由NSF资助的促进STEM学科女性进步的计划）以及与当地行业的合作伙伴关系的基础上，以创建一个全面的计划，用于招聘和提高学者的学术水平，沿着指导支持过渡到劳动力市场。学者们通过这样的高影响力的做法作为一个生活学习社区，重点辅导，并参与本科研究的支持。该项目通过学者的直接支持和创建一个可以持续到未来的路径模式，在国家需求领域产生了积极影响。

This project provides scholarships to enable 16 academically talented and financially needy engineering students at Elizabethtown College to obtain baccalaureate degrees and enter the STEM workforce. It builds on partnerships with Project Forward Leap, a non-profit organization that supports educational achievement for students in inner city or underperforming school districts, with STEM-UP PA, an NSF-funded program that promotes advancement of women in STEM disciplines, and with local industries to create a comprehensive program for recruitment and academic enhancement of scholars, along with mentoring support for transition to the workforce. Scholars are supported through such high-impact practices as a living-learning community, focused mentoring, and participation in undergraduate research. The project is having a positive impact in an area of national need, both through direct support of scholars and by creating a pathway model that can be sustained into the future.