Scholarship Program in Manufacturing Engineering Leadership Development

制造工程领导力发展奖学金计划将向25名有经济需要、在学业上有天赋的全日制工程专业新生提供学费奖学金，他们将在密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校完成制造工程本科学位。学者还将通过职业发展活动培养领导经验，目标是领导技能和实习生在行业中的机会。领导经验将在沟通、批判性思维、团队合作和专业精神方面培养技能。该项目允许密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校提供奖学金，直接解决全国关注的一个领域：保持美国制造业的竞争力。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上大学的费用，这会影响准备帮助国家、地区和地方制造公司的工程学毕业生的数量。密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校的制造工程领导力发展课程将分两组招生。每个小组将组成一个队列，在教室内外一起学习几门工程学课程，研究共同的项目，分享经验，相互学习。除了学费奖学金，该项目还将包括学术支持、指导和职业指导，以便学生群体在四年内成功完成学位。毕业生将在制造业领域找到工作或攻读研究生课程。在秋季和冬季学期，STEM学者还将有机会参加行业访问和项目，这将提供工程经验，并以实用知识丰富他们的教育。STEM学者在大学的四年学习期间，将得到来自教师、研究生、校友和执业工程师的指导和学术支持。STEM学者还将选择在三年级和四年级参加密歇根大学-迪尔伯恩结构工程合作项目，这将为他们提供以实践为导向的教育和体验式学习，这将有助于他们的职业生涯。评估和评估将深入了解学生奖学金、学习社区、职业发展活动和教师指导/建议的留任好处。从项目评估数据中学到的经验教训和有效的实践将广泛传播给工程教育界，并有助于扩大关于此类成功奖学金项目的属性和实践的知识库。

The Scholarship Program in Manufacturing Engineering Leadership Development will provide tuition scholarships to 25 academically talented full-time freshmen engineering students with financial need who will complete an undergraduate degree in manufacturing engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Scholars will also develop leadership experience through career development activities targeting leadership skills and opportunities for internships in industry. The leadership experience will build skills in communication, critical thinking, teamwork and professionalism. The program allows the University of Michigan-Dearborn to offer scholarships to directly address an area of national concern: maintaining US competitiveness in manufacturing. 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 manufacturing companies. The Manufacturing Engineering Leadership Development at the University of Michigan-Dearborn will recruit students in two groups. Each group will form a cohort that will take several engineering courses together, work on common projects, share experiences and learn from each other, both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to the tuition scholarship, the program will include academic support, mentoring and career guidance so that the student cohorts will successfully complete their degrees in four years. Graduates will find employment in the manufacturing field or enroll in graduate studies. The STEM scholars will also be given the opportunity to participate in industry visits and projects in Fall and Winter semesters, which will provide engineering experience and enrich their education with practical knowledge. The STEM scholars will receive mentoring and academic support from faculty, graduate students, alumni and practicing engineers throughout the four years of their studies in the University. The STEM scholars will also have the option of participating in the University of Michigan-Dearborn structured engineering co-op program in their junior and senior years, which will provide them with practice-oriented education and experiential learning that will help them in their career. Assessment and evaluation will provide insight into the retention benefits of student scholarships, learning communities, career development activities, and faculty mentoring/advising. Lessons learned and effective practices that emerge from the program evaluation data will be disseminated widely to the engineering education community and help enlarge the knowledge base regarding attributes and practices of successful scholarship programs of this type.