Broadening Ecosystem Attributes for Talented Scholars (BEATS)

加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的工程与多样性卓越中心（CEED）将开发“拓宽有才华学者的工程属性”（BEATS）项目，为38名攻读工程和计算机科学学士学位的学术天才学生提供年度奖学金。除了奖学金援助，该计划将为学生提供学术课程和非学术课外活动，旨在积极加强每个学生在他们的专业和工程与应用科学的亨利萨穆埃利学院的归属感。CEED的工作人员将组织和主办夏季关键过渡数学/科学靴子营地，将准备新生和转学生的快节奏的季度系统加州大学洛杉矶分校。行业将在整个学年中主办和组织多个企业主导的专业发展机会。学者将参加个人和同行指导会议，以增加他们在工程和计算机科学方面的社会和学术参与，这将导致更高的学位完成率，并最终增加进入工程和计算机科学美国劳动力的有才华的学者数量。BEATS项目的目标是增加获得工程和计算机科学学位的学术人才的数量，并直接或在攻读工程或计算机科学研究生学位后进入STEM劳动力市场。课程和课外主动学习社区将促进同伴动机和个人动机，这将与社会和学术融合和参与呈正相关。新生奖学金获得者和他们的非学者同行将报名参加“工程学导论”课程，在该课程中，他们将被分配到一个研究项目的小组，该项目将在秋季季度末通过一个顶点演示文稿完成。关键的过渡计划，积极的学习社区和归属感之间的关系的分析将提供洞察哪些活动对社会和学术的整合和参与，自我效能感，以及随后的坚持程度的影响最大完成和更高的GPA在工程和计算机科学。

The Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED) at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will develop the "Broadening Engineering Attributes of Talented Scholars" (BEATS) project to provide annual scholarships for thirty-eight academically talented students pursuing bachelor degrees in engineering and computer science. In addition to scholarship assistance, this program will provide students with academic curricular and non-academic co-curricular programs aimed at positively reinforcing each student's sense of belonging in their major and in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. CEED staff will organize and host summer critical transition math/science boot camps that will prepare incoming freshmen and transfer students for the fast-paced quarter system of UCLA. Industry will host and organize multiple corporate-led professional development opportunities throughout the academic year. Scholars will participate in individual and peer mentoring sessions to increase their social and academic engagement in engineering and computer science, which will lead to higher rates of degree completion and ultimately increase the number of talented scholars entering the engineering and computer science US workforce.The goal of the BEATS project is to increase the number of academically talented students who graduate with engineering and computer science degrees, and enter the STEM workforce either directly or after pursuing a graduate degree in engineering or computer science. The curricular and co-curricular active learning community will foster both peer motivation and individual motivation, which will positively correlate with social and academic integration and engagement. Freshmen scholarship recipients and their non-scholar peers will enroll in an "Introduction to Engineering Disciplines" course in which they will be assigned to groups for a research project that will be finalized by a capstone presentation at the end of the Fall quarter. Analysis of the relationships between critical transition programs, the active learning community, and a sense of belonging will provide insight into which activities have the most influence on social and academic integration and engagement, self-efficacy, and subsequently persistence-to-degree completion and higher GPAs in engineering and computer science.