Motivating Engineers to Achieve (META)

圣安东尼奥学院(SAC)激励工程师获得科学、技术、工程和数学(元)奖学金(S-STEM)计划为有经济需求的有才华的工程学学生提供奖学金和支持服务。该计划正在提高这些SAC工程专业学生的保留率，及时完成副学士学位并转学到四年制院校。因此，该项目正在增加劳动力中受过良好教育和熟练的工程师数量，以满足该地区对石油、材料、海洋和采矿工程专业人员的日益增长的需求，以支持德克萨斯州的石油和天然气行业。由于SAC是一个为拉美裔服务的机构，META项目也增加了授予这一历史上代表性不足的学生的工程学学位的数量。META的首要目标是提高获得学位的SAC工程学专业的数量和质量，使这些学生能够进入工程学大军，或继续他们在工程学或相关领域的正规教育。除了每年向有经济需要的有学术天赋的工程学学生颁发20个奖学金外，META还通过提供模范学术支持服务和队列建设活动来实现其目标，这些活动旨在让工程学专业的学生相互之间及其学科之间的联系。主要支持活动包括通过面向高中生的暑期早期开发通用工程(EDGE)暑期计划进行招聘和过渡活动；为学生提供从事学生主导、教师指导的本科研究的机会；为学习、支持服务和学生互动提供专用空间；以及为学生提供通过实地考察、嘉宾演讲和实习了解工程职业的机会。项目评估，包括记录学者的参与、看法和结果，旨在增进对经济、学术和社会支持对低收入工科学生成功影响的了解和理解。

The San Antonio College (SAC) Motivating Engineers to Achieve (META) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program is providing scholarships and support services to talented engineering students who demonstrate financial need. The program is enhancing retention rates, timely associate's degree completion and transfer to four-year institutions for these SAC engineering students. Thus, the project is increasing the numbers of well-educated and skilled engineers in the workforce, addressing the growing regional need for petroleum, materials, marine and mining engineering professionals to support the Texas oil and gas industry. Because SAC is an Hispanic-Serving Institution, the META program is also increasing the number of engineering degrees awarded to students from this historically-underrepresented group.META's overarching goal is to enhance the quantity and quality of SAC engineering majors who earn degrees, enabling these students to enter the engineering workforce, or continue their formal education in engineering or related fields. In addition to awarding 20 scholarships per year to academically-talented engineering students with financial need, META is accomplishing its goals by providing model academic support services and cohort-building activities that are designed to engage engineering majors with each other and their discipline. Key support activities include recruitment and transition initiatives through the summer Early Development of General Engineering (EDGE) summer program for high school students; opportunities to work on student-led, faculty-guided undergraduate research; dedicated spaces for study, support services and student interaction; and opportunities for students to learn about engineering careers through site visits, guest speakers and internships. Program evaluation, which includes documentation of scholar participation, perceptions, and outcomes, is advancing knowledge and understanding regarding the effects of financial, academic, and social supports on low-income engineering student success.