Transfer Initiative for Engineering Scholars (TIES) - Phase II

工程学者转学计划（TIES）项目将增加有学术天赋、有经济需要的二年级和四年级学生转学到佐治亚理工学院电气或计算机工程专业的机会。PI小组将保留首次实施TIES时使用的许多战略；然而，这些已经进一步完善，并将使TIES成为招聘和留住这些转学生的最佳实践蓝图。这个项目将解决有学术天赋的学生面临的两个主要挑战：经济需求和学术支持。这项工作的目标人群将包括社区大学的学生，以及为代表性不足的群体提供服务的2年制和4年制院校的学生。在五年的资助期内，将向33名学生颁发大约115个奖学金。TIES的支持结构将使这些学生的表现达到或超过传统学生的水平。由于TIES的许多学者将与他们的家乡院校保持密切的联系，他们可以作为榜样，帮助那些想要进入佐治亚理工学院或其他顶级工程项目的社区大学毕业生建立一个渠道。TIES项目将基于对非传统学生所采取的成功途径的分析，并将其推广到更广泛的院校。采用在提高工程专业招生和多样性方面取得成功的方法和管理团队，pi将在现有努力的基础上建立和扩展，为这些学生提供几种支持项目选择，并将包括专门为非传统初级转学设计的项目组合。对这些学生和项目组合的考察将促进对如何帮助非传统学生的理解。一些项目细节，如积极参与有凝聚力的学生群体，以及以研究和职业发展为重点的指导活动，将使学生保持成功的动力。TIES将通过为经济拮据的两年制和四年制大学学生提供从一流工程学院毕业的机会，解决国家和机构的重要问题。该项目将为其他希望招收和毕业有才华的非传统学生的院系和工程学院提供最佳实践模板。

The Transfer Initiative for Engineering Scholars (TIES) project will increase opportunities for academically talented, 2- and 4- year students with financial need to transfer to programs in electrical or computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The PI team will retain many of the strategies that were used in a first implementation of TIES; however, these have been further refined and will move TIES to a best practices blueprint for recruiting and retaining these transfer students. This project will address two of the major challenges faced by academically gifted students who are strong candidates for admission: financial need and academic support. The target population for this effort will include students at community colleges, and 2- and 4- year institutions that serve underrepresented groups. Approximately 115 scholarships will be award to 33 students over the five-year grant period. The TIES support structure will enable these students to perform at or above the level of traditional students. Since many of the TIES scholars will maintain strong ties to their home institutions, they can serve as role models and help create a pipeline for community college graduates who want to attend Georgia Tech or other top engineering programs.The TIES program will be based on an analysis of successful paths taken by non-traditional students and generalizing them for a broader group of institutions. Using an approach and management team that have had success in a variety of outreach efforts for improving engineering enrollment and diversity, the PIs will build and expand upon those existing efforts to offer several support program options for such students and will include a mix of programs designed specifically for non-traditional junior-level transfers. Examination of these combinations of students and programs will advance the understanding of how to help non-traditional students. Several program details, such as active involvement with a cohesive student cohort and mentoring activities focused on research and career development, will keep students motivated to succeed. TIES will address important national and institutional concerns by providing financially limited students from 2- and 4- year colleges opportunities to graduate from a top-tier engineering school. This program will provide a best practices template for other departments and engineering schools that wish to recruit and graduate talented non-traditional students.