Student Pathways Opening World Energy Resources (S-POWER)

该计划解决了两个国家危机：（一）代表性不足的少数民族（URM）转学到STEM领域学士学位授予机构的持续率极低，以及（二）能源相关领域的基础研究和培训需求。通过向低收入，学术才华的学生提供奖学金支持，并通过设计，实施，评估和传播必要的新方法来转移学生教育，S-POWER将团结学生和教师在发送和接收机构合作解决大能源挑战，如开发节能系统和能源管理材料。为了实现上述愿景，研究人员将创建教师和学生的项目特定团队，以建立社会和指导关系，并实现重点教育支持结构，包括与行业的正式指导和在发送和接收机构实施共享教育体系。这与大多数传统的转学生教育过程不同，在传统的转学生教育过程中，只有发送者或接收机构负责教育就读于每个机构的学生。此外，S-POWER将研究和记录URM转学学生的其他障碍，同时调查开始四年制与社区学院的学术旅程的学生的相似性和差异。S-POWER教育教学法的成功将在每个学生的教育生涯中进行评估，积极影响转学生成功的因素将传播到更广泛的教育界。

The proposed program addresses two national crises: (i) the extremely low persistence rate of underrepresented minority (URM) transfer students to bachelor degree granting institutions in STEM fields, and (ii) the need for fundamental research and training in energy related fields. Through the awarding of scholarship support to low-income, academically talented students, and by designing, implementing, assessing, and disseminating essential new approaches to transfer student education, S-POWER will unite students and faculty at both sending and receiving institutions to collaboratively address Grand Energy challenges, such as developing materials for energy efficient systems and energy power management. To implement the above vision, the investigators will create project-specific teams of faculty and students to build social and mentoring ties and enable focused educational support structures, including formal mentoring with industry and implementation of shared educational pedagogies at both the sending and receiving institutions. This departs from most traditional transfer student educational processes in which it is only the sender or receiving institution's responsibility to educate the student attending each institution. In addition, S-POWER will study and document additional barriers for URM transfer students, while investigating the similarities and differences of experiences for students that begin their academic journey in four-year versus community colleges. The success of the S-POWER educational pedagogy will be assessed throughout each student's educational career, and factors that positively influence transfer student success will be disseminated to the broader educational community.