UC Irvine Pathways to Engineering Collaborative

在NSF科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）项目的资助下，“加州大学欧文分校工程合作途径”项目将支持加州大学欧文分校（UCI）和欧文谷学院（IVC）的高成就、低收入学生，他们需要证明自己的经济能力。在五年的时间里，该项目将为攻读先进制造专业工程学位的社区大学生提供360个奖学金。认识到两年制机构和大学之间的合作伙伴关系在谁追求工程学士学位的学生进步的关键需要，这个S-STEM轨道3项目建立了学术和咨询合作，包括共同建议，指导和辅导，并建立途径工程学士学位。利用Tinto的学生保留理论和Eccles期望价值理论来研究工程学的选择和成功，合作机构将围绕五个主要目标组织他们的项目。首先，他们寻求创建一个课程和课外支持的生态系统，以改善转学生的体验。第二，他们将增加社区大学学生的数量谁转移和录取工程。第三，他们计划指导这些转学生获得工程学士学位，特别强调先进制造业。第四，项目小组将致力于增加这些学士学位获得者进入劳动力市场或研究生院的人数。最后，研究人员将开展他们的工作，着眼于通过多年的混合方法纵向研究，为工程成功贡献新的知识。这项为期多年的混合方法研究调查了优先事项，价值观和经验，这些因素塑造了学术天赋低收入学生的教育选择和他们成功的意愿。 这项调查是由以下首要的研究问题：“是什么驱动学术才华，低收入的工程专业学生，谁开始他们的学术生涯在社区大学，在工程成功？“这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the "UC Irvine Pathways to Engineering Collaborative" project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Irvine Valley College (IVC). Throughout its five years, this project will fund 360 scholarships for community college students who are pursuing engineering degrees with a specialization in advanced manufacturing. Recognizing the crucial need for partnerships between two-year institutions and universities in the advancement of students who pursue baccalaureate degrees in engineering, this S-STEM Track 3 project establishes an academic and counseling collaboration that includes co-advising, mentoring, and tutoring and establishes pathways to baccalaureate degrees in engineering. Drawing on Tinto's theory of student retention and Eccles Expectancy-Value theory to examine choice and success in engineering, the partner institutions will organize their project around five principle objectives. First, they seek to create an ecosystem of curricular and co-curricular supports to improve the transfer student experience. Second, they will increase the number of community college students who transfer and matriculate in engineering. Third, they plan to mentor these transfer students toward graduating with baccalaureate degrees in engineering with a special emphasis in advanced manufacturing. Fourth, the project team will aim to increase the number of these baccalaureate degree recipients who enter into the workforce or graduate school. Finally, the investigators will carry out their work with an eye toward contributing new knowledge on success in engineering through a multi-year mixed method longitudinal study. This multi-year mixed-methods study investigates the priorities, values, and experiences that shape academically talented low-income students' education choices and their will to succeed. The investigation is guided by the following overarching research question: "What drives academically talented, low-income engineering students, who begin their academic careers at community colleges, to succeed in engineering?"This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.