Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Scholars with Scholarships, Career Mentoring, Outreach and Advisement, Professional Societies and Engineering Learning Community (SCOPE)

该项目将为攻读工业或机械工程学士学位的学生提供奖学金资助。这项五年计划将服务于三个队列，共36名学者。被选中的学生将是有经济需要的有学术天赋的机械或工业工程专业的学生。奖学金将得到学术支持的补充，包括辅导、辅导和本科生研究机会。该计划将有助于招收和留住工业或机械工程专业的学生，并将减少这些学生的毕业时间。该项目将允许拉马尔大学提供奖学金，直接解决全国关注的一个领域：保持美国在工业上的竞争力。为学业优秀的工程学学生提供奖学金，否则他们可能负担不起大学学费，这会影响准备帮助国家、地区和当地公司的工程学毕业生的数量。拉马尔大学被认为是西方经济和种族最多元化的大学之一。超过40%的学生来自目前在工程学领域代表性不足的群体。在过去的十年里，非洲裔美国学生的数量增加了一倍多，西班牙裔学生的数量增加了两倍。拉马尔会议目前的多样性为扩大目前在工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与提供了机会。这项计划将面向大二到大四的学生，并提供必要的支持，以帮助确保完成学位。支持活动将包括增强的学术建议、职业建议、通过补充辅导、同行监督和本科生研究机会提供的学术支持。工程专业协会的资源将被用于帮助学者通过专业考试。通过建立工程学学习社区，学生的参与度将得到提高。该项目不仅将解决在面临金融不稳定时完成学位的内在困难，而且还将解决工程专业学生在决定从事工程学科的职业时所面临的困难。项目成果将提供有关持续干预措施在留住低收入工程学学生方面的有效性的信息，并将有助于制定留住低收入和有才华的工程学学生的最佳做法。

This project will provide scholarship funding for students pursuing bachelor degrees in industrial or mechanical engineering. Three cohorts, a total of 36 scholars, will be served in this five-year project. Students selected will be academically talented mechanical or industrial engineering students with financial need. The scholarships will be complemented by academic support including mentoring, tutoring, and undergraduate research opportunities. The program will help to recruit and retain industrial or mechanical engineering students, and will reduce the graduation time of these students. The program will allow Lamar University to offer scholarships to directly address an area of national concern: maintaining US competitiveness in industry. Scholarships for academically strong engineering students, who may not otherwise be able to afford college, have an impact on the number of engineering graduates prepared to help national, regional, and local companies.Lamar University is known as one of the most economically and racially diverse universities in the West. More than forty percent of the student population is from groups currently underrepresented in engineering. In the past decade, the number of African-American students has more than doubled and the number of Hispanic students has tripled. The diversity present at Lamar provides an opportunity to broaden the participation of groups currently underrepresented in engineering fields. This program will target students from sophomore to senior years and provide the support needed to help insure degree completion. Support activities will include enhanced academic advising, career advising, academic support through supplemental tutoring, peer monitoring and undergraduate research opportunities. Resources from engineering professional societies will be engaged to help scholars to pass professional exams. Student engagement will be enhanced by the formation of an engineering learning community. The project will address not only the intrinsic difficulties of degree completion when faced with financial instability, but also the difficulties that engineering students experience as they decide upon a career in an engineering discipline. Project results will provide information on the effectiveness of continuous intervention in retaining low-income engineering students and will contribute to the development of the best practices for retaining low income and talented students in engineering.