CUES: Cornell University Engineering Success Program

该项目得到了STEP的特别资助重点“毕业生10K+”的支持，这是国家科学基金会的一项活动，部分由英特尔基金会和通用电气基金会捐赠，以刺激大学和学院的综合行动，帮助在未来十年中将工程和计算机科学专业的新学士学位毕业生的数量增加10,000。基于康奈尔大学工程学院在招收少数族裔学生（URM）方面的良好记录，康奈尔大学工程成功计划（CUES）的目标是通过将URM和第一代学院（FGC）学生的保留率和毕业率提高到与整体工程学生群体相当的水平，实现招聘成功所隐含的承诺。cue正在利用已经在招聘方面进行的投资，在新生入学前的夏季和第一年的经验中增加康奈尔大学毕业的工程师人数。cue项目团队正在实施三项研究证明的干预措施，以解决高素质和有才华的工程专业学生成功的已知障碍：空间推理课程；一个工程数学研究所，结合暑期课程、协作学习和研究的学费支持；加强辅导。这三种建议的干预措施，加上现有的支持项目，如辅导、早期干预和一、二年级课程的辅导，在康奈尔大学的文献和经验表明，这是最需要的。空间推理课程是发展一个持久的，基本的技能，需要成功的入门数学和科学课程。工程数学学院让学生有机会回到核心数学课程的轨道上，并在研究背景下通过发现获得学习机会。加强辅导有助于学生在专业上取得成功，而数据显示，在这些专业上出现了额外的人员流失。该项目的一个直接结果是预计将增加170名康奈尔大学工程专业的毕业生，其中大多数是康奈尔大学工程学院的学生。除了这些额外的工程师带来的直接影响外，CUES项目正在开发一种模式，即如何将行之有效的干预措施与URM和FGC学生的综合支持网络相结合，从而对增加美国工程和计算机科学毕业生数量这一最困难的挑战产生重大影响。

This project is being supported under a special funding focus for STEP, "Graduate 10K+," an activity of the National Science Foundation, supported in part by donations from the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation, to stimulate comprehensive action at universities and colleges to help increase the annual number of new B.S. graduates in engineering and computer science by 10,000 over the next decade. Building on Cornell Engineering's strong record of recruitment of underrepresented minority (URM) students, the goal of the Cornell University Engineering Success Program (CUES) is to realize the promise implicit in the recruiting success by increasing the retention and graduation rate of URM and first generation college (FGC) students to a level equal to the overall engineering student body. CUES is leveraging investments already made in recruiting, in the pre-freshman summer and in the first year experience to increase the number of Cornell-educated engineers. The CUES project team is implementing three research-proven interventions that address known barriers to the success of highly qualified and talented engineering students: a spatial reasoning course; an engineering math institute combining tuition support for summer courses, collaborative learning and research; and enhanced tutoring.The three proposed interventions, coupled to existing support programs such as mentoring, early intervention and tutoring for first and second year courses support students at points where both the literature and experience at Cornell show it is most needed. The spatial reasoning course is developing a lasting, foundational skill needed for success in gateway mathematics and science classes. The Engineering Math Institute is giving students a chance to get back on track with the core mathematics curriculum and to gain exposure to learning through discovery in a research context. Enhanced tutoring is supporting the success of students in the majors where retention data show that additional attrition occurs. A direct result of the CUES program is the expectation of an additional 170 Cornell Engineering graduates, most of them URM students. Beyond the immediate impact of these additional engineers, the CUES Program is developing a model of how the integration of proven interventions with a comprehensive support network for URM and FGC students can make a significant impact on one of the most difficult challenges to overcome in increasing the number of U.S. engineering and computer science graduates.