Engineering Technology Scholars - IMProving REtention and Student Success (ETS-IMPRESS)

认识到国家和地区对具有学士学位的训练有素的工程技术STEM劳动力的需求，工程技术学者-提高留校率和学生成功(ETS-IMPRESS)项目提供资金支持和一个高影响力的课程和联合课程活动生态系统，以提高学业天赋的学生的成功。在国家科学基金科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)项目的资助下，ETS-IMPRESS将支持12名初学者四年，并将支持36名从社区大学转学的学生两年。该项目的目标是(1)增加攻读工程技术学位的学生(第一代、代表性不足的学生、妇女和退伍军人)的数量和多样性；(2)增加关于工程技术最佳做法的知识体系，促进就业；以及(3)促进关于自我效能的文献。位于密歇根理工大学的ETS-IMPRESS将通过理工学院提供的工程技术课程和帕夫利斯荣誉学院的课程结合在一起，帕夫利斯荣誉学院是一所围绕高影响力的教育实践而设计的包容和独特的学院。ETS-IMPRESS项目提供了一个独特的机会，让有学术天赋的工程技术学生参与旨在培养领导力、技术诀窍和就业技能的活动，这些活动旨在为积极招聘和雇用来自不同背景和社区的毕业生的技术领域培养领导力、技术诀窍和就业技能。通过关注范围广泛的学生，该项目将通过(1)混合方法的事前/事后研究设计，检验动机、自我效能和专业技能的差异，以及(2)对转学学生进行匹配的队列比较研究，考察参与/不参与工程技术项目的学习与荣誉大学选修计划，从而调查学生特征和学生成功之间的关系。

Recognizing a national and regional need for a highly trained engineering technology STEM workforce with baccalaureate degrees, the Engineering Technology Scholars - IMProving Retention and Student Success (ETS-IMPRESS) project provides financial support and an ecosystem of high-impact curricular and co-curricular activities to increase the success of academically talented students. With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, ETS-IMPRESS will support a total of 12 first-time students for four years and 36 students transferring from community colleges will be supported for two years. The goals of the project are to (1) increase the number and diversity of students pursuing degrees in engineering technology (first-generation, underrepresented students, women, and veterans); (2) add to the body of knowledge regarding best practices in Engineering Technology and promote employment; and (3) contribute to the literature on self-efficacy. Located at Michigan Technological University, ETS-IMPRESS brings together programs in engineering technology that are offered through the School of Technology and programs in the Pavlis Honors College, an inclusive and unique college designed around high-impact educational practices. The ETS-IMPRESS project provides a unique opportunity to engage academically talented engineering technology students in activities designed to foster leadership, technical know-how, and employability skills for technology fields that actively recruit and employ graduates from diverse backgrounds and communities. By focusing on a broad range of students, the project will investigate the relationship between student characteristics and student success through (1) a mixed-methods pre/post research design that examines differences in motivation, self-efficacy and professional skills and (2) a matched cohort comparison study of transfer students that examines participation/non-participation in engineering technology programs of study with honors' college elective programming.