Student Teams Engaging Peers for Undergraduate Progress (STEP-UP)

该项目得到STEP特别资助重点的支持，“毕业生10K+”是美国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的捐款支持，以刺激大学和学院的综合行动，帮助增加每年新的学士学位数量。在未来十年内，工程和计算机科学的毕业生将增加1万人。特别是，该项目团队专注于提高工程学院学生的保留率和毕业率，特别强调为被确定为流失点的三门数学课程（微积分预科和微积分I和II）提供同伴主导的丰富课程和辅导支持。其他举措包括通过同行，教师和执业工程师，学生跟踪计划的实施，让挣扎的学生早期干预，并涉及设计团队和专业活动的一年级学生加强他们的连接到工程计划的指导。该项目的智力价值在于其多管齐下的方法，利用了STEM教育文献中的最佳实践，以及数学干预措施的成功试点研究。更广泛的影响包括提高工程专业学生的成就，保留和毕业，以进入当地和区域劳动力市场，以及评估和传播方法，以作为类似规模和情况的其他机构采用的模式。

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. In particular, this project team is focusing on improving retention and graduation of students in its School of Engineering, with a particular emphasis on providing peer-led enrichment sessions and tutoring support for three mathematics courses (Pre-Calculus and Calculus I and II) identified as attrition points. Additional initiatives include enhanced mentoring by peers, faculty and practicing engineers, implementation of a student tracking program to allow early intervention for struggling students, and involving first-year students in design-team and professional activities to strengthen their connections to the engineering program. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its multi-pronged approach that leverages best practices from the STEM educational literature, as well as successful pilot studies of the mathematics interventions. The broader impacts comprise enhanced achievement, retention, and graduation of engineering students to enter the local and regional workforce, as well as assessment and dissemination of the approaches to serve as a model for other institutions of similar size and circumstances to adopt.