Statler Increasing Access and Diversity in Engineering Program (ADE)

该项目的重点是增加在西弗吉尼亚大学斯塔勒工程和矿产资源学院攻读工程学本科学位的学生数量，这些学生来自传统上代表性较低的群体。该计划将为有学术天赋的低收入学生提供优秀奖学金，重点是第一代大学生、女性、非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人。奖学金获得者将参加秋季前的桥梁项目、专业的第一年课程，以及旨在提供支持和增加工程学学位留存率的各种联合课程活动。该项目的主要目标是增加工程学项目中代表人数不足的学生的年度入学人数，加强对这些学生的课程和联合课程支持服务，发展和利用与当地和地区工程公司的合作伙伴关系，并评估这些活动对学生动机和成功的影响。项目实施计划包括促进学生参与旨在提高留存能力的活动，包括注册公共课程、参加现场学习社区、学术咨询和辅导，以及来自学术界和行业的多层次指导，并提供实习和本科生研究的机会。将对项目活动进行评估，以确定项目参与和学术成功之间的关系，项目的哪些要素对成功有最重要的影响，如何克服实际和后勤挑战，以及项目对动机、认知、包容感觉和总体结果的纵向影响。该项目的数据将被用来确定成功的项目元素，这些元素可以传播给其他机构，以培养在工程项目中代表性不足和社会经济地位较低的学生的毅力和毅力。

The focus of this program is to increase the number of students from traditionally underrepresented groups who pursue undergraduate degrees in engineering in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. The program will provide merit scholarships to academically talented, low-income students with a focus on first-generation college students, females, African-Americans and Hispanics. Recipients of the scholarships will participate in a pre-fall bridge program, specialized first-year courses, and a variety of co-curricular activities designed to provide support and increase retention in engineering degrees. The major goals of the program are to increase the annual enrollment of underrepresented students in the engineering programs, to enhance curricular and co-curricular support services for these students, to develop and utilize partnerships with local and regional engineering companies and to assess the impact of these activities on student motivation and success.Plans for project implementation include facilitating student participation in activities designed to increase retention including enrollment in common courses, participation in live-learn communities, academic advising and tutoring, and multi-tier mentoring from academia and industry with opportunities for internships and undergraduate research. Program activities will be assessed to determine the relationship between program participation and academic success, what elements of the program most significantly impact success, how practical and logistical challenges are overcome, and what the longitudinal impact of the program is on motivation, perceptions, feelings of inclusion, and overall outcome. Data from the project will be used to identify successful program elements that can be disseminated to other institutions to foster persistence and perseverance of under-represented and low socioeconomic status students in engineering programs.