HBCU-DCL EAGER: Unraveling Academic Success: Identifying High Impact Practices to Support Academic Persistence and Degree Completion for Underrepresented Populations in Engineering

培养有才能的STEM劳动力对确保美国未来的发展至关重要。创造这种理想的STEM劳动力对于加速经济繁荣，保持全球竞争力，确保国防，创造清洁和可再生能源，保护空气，水，土壤和环境的质量，以及为所有公民推进国家健康解决方案等几乎所有国家目标都至关重要。该项目通过研究确定影响工程企业中不同学生的学术坚持到学位完成的具体教育政策、实践和计划，来应对培养多样化的工程人才队伍的挑战。概述的研究活动将产生确定高影响力实践的结果，这些实践对学生的学习成果、学术持久性和工程专业代表性不足的学生的毕业率产生积极影响。本研究采用混合方法进行案例研究，研究对象是位于美国东南部的一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的工程学院的在校生或校友中代表性不足的学生。具体来说，利用开放式问题对工程学院现任和前任工程研究生、校友和教职员工进行访谈，以实现以下目标：(a)揭示影响学生的政策、项目和实践？愿意坚持到完成学位；(b)确定学生认为对他们的成功至关重要的政策、计划和实践的组成部分。此外，该项目将包括调查数据收集，这将有助于三角测量访谈结果。因此，设计和实施制度实践、程序和政策的蓝图将被创建，以确保不同的学生在工程学位课程中取得成功。

Growing a talented STEM workforce is critical to ensuring America's future advancement. The creation of this desired STEM workforce is vital to virtually all of our national goals' accelerating economic prosperity, maintaining global competitiveness, securing national defense, creating clean and renewable energy sources, protecting the quality of our air, water, soil and environment, and advancing national health solutions for all citizens. This project responds to the challenge of growing a diverse talented engineering workforce by conducting research to identify the specific educational policies, practices, and programs that impact diverse students' academic persistence to degree completion within the engineering enterprise. The outlined research activities will yield results that identify high impact practices that positively influence student learning outcomes, academic persistence, and graduation rates of under-represented students in engineering majors.This research utilizes a mixed-method case study of underrepresented students currently enrolled in or alumni of the College of Engineering at a historically black college and university, located in the southeastern part of the country. Specifically, interviews utilizing open-ended questions with current and former engineering graduate students, alumni, and faculty in the College of Engineering will be implemented to accomplish the following: (a) reveal the policies, programs and practices that impact students? willingness to persist to degree completion; and, (b) identify the components of the policies, programs and practices perceived by students to be concentric to their success. Additionally, the project will include survey data collections that will help triangulate interview findings. Thus, a blueprint for designing and implementing institutional practices, procedures, and policies proven to ensure the success of diverse students in Engineering degree programs will be created.