Engineering Scholars Program (ESP)

在美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资助下，工程学者计划（ESP）正在为科罗拉多州西南部路易斯堡学院（FLC）有经济需求和学术前景的低收入学生提供支持，帮助他们在STEM学科取得成功。S-STEM第二轨道项目为攻读物理和工程学士学位的FLC学生提供60个年度奖学金，每年最高10,000美元。ESP学者将受益于FLC丰富的支持服务生态系统。此外，这些有才华的低收入学生将获得直接的经济支持，使他们能够停止工作，专注于学业。该奖项的意义在于，FLC在美国非部落文科机构中招收的美国原住民学生比例最高，并且它向美国原住民学生颁发的STEM学位比美国任何其他学士学位机构都要多。这些学者很可能会成为美国本土工程和物理毕业生的重要补充，而美国本土工程和物理毕业生的数量非常少。S-STEM第二轨道项目有几个独特的特点，反映了它的智力价值和潜在的更广泛的影响。每个ESP学者将与教师导师一起设定目标，确定所需的支持措施并监控进展。学者的选拔是基于一个创新的双层系统，在过去的奖学金项目中已经成功审查。ESP允许gpa低于3.0，但根据其他标准表现出学术天赋的学生有机会证明自己。学生的表现受到密切监控。除了传统的学术支持活动（如近同伴辅导、辅导等）外，该项目还侧重于课外高影响力的体验，如与教师一起进行暑期研究、实习、专业发展和实地考察。研究人员将研究该计划的高影响力经验和两级选择过程，为STEM教育知识库提供有价值的贡献，了解这些干预措施对FLC低收入、有学术天赋的学生获得学位的各种影响。结果不仅将由主要研究人员及其合作者传播到当地和全国STEM教育社区，还将通过学者在其家乡的演讲向当地社区传播。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Engineering Scholars Program (ESP) is providing support to low-income students with demonstrated financial need and academic promise to succeed in STEM disciplines at Fort Lewis College (FLC) in Southwest Colorado. This S-STEM Track 2 project is funding 60 annual scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for FLC students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Physics and Engineering. The ESP scholars will benefit from a rich ecosystem of support services at FLC. In addition, these talented low-income students will receive direct financial support to allow them to stop working and focus on their studies. The significance of this award resides in the fact that FLC has the highest percentage of Native American students enrolled in a non-tribal liberal arts institution in the nation and it awards more STEM degrees to Native American students than any other baccalaureate institution in the United States. These scholars will likely represent a significant addition to the national pool of Native American Engineering and Physics graduates, which is extremely small.This S-STEM Track 2 project has several distinctive features which reflect its intellectual merit and potential for broader impacts. Each ESP scholar will work with a faculty mentor to set goals, identify required support measures and monitor progress. Scholar selection is based on an innovative two-tiered system that has been successfully vetted during past scholarship programs. The ESP allows students with GPAs less than 3.0, but who demonstrate academic talent based on alternate criteria, a chance to prove themselves. Student performance is closely monitored. In addition to traditional academic support activities (such as near-peer tutoring, tutoring, et cetera) the program focuses on extracurricular high-impact experiences like summer research with faculty, internships, professional development and field trips. Researchers will study the program's high impact experiences and the two-tiered selection process, providing a valuable contribution to the STEM education knowledge base about the various impacts of these interventions on degree attainment by low-income, academically talented students at FLC. Results will be disseminated not only by the principal investigators and their collaborators to local and national STEM education communities but also to local communities through presentations by scholars to their home towns.