Supporting Undergraduates for Careers in Computing and Engineering with Scholarships and Supervision II

该项目将通过支持德州农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校(TAMUCC)留住和毕业有经济需求的高成就低收入学生，为国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求做出贡献。TAMUCC是一家为拉美裔和少数族裔服务的机构，位于德克萨斯州南部，为大部分符合佩尔条件的学生和转校生提供服务。在为期6年的时间里，该项目将为24名正在攻读工程和计算机科学学士学位的一年级和转学本科生提供奖学金，并将获得长达四年的奖学金支持。在之前S-STEM奖项的基础上，该项目旨在通过有效的课外和课外活动，如辅导、学术咨询、第一年学习社区、本科生研究、实习、专业发展研讨会、研究生院准备和科学会议，增加学生留校率和学者毕业率。该项目将通过一个以队列为基础的学习社区留住学者，并为新生和转学学生量身定做支持服务。在教师、行业和同行导师团队的支持下，学生们将朝着毕业的方向前进，并为进入研究生院或进入劳动力市场做准备。由于TAMUCC有大量代表不足的西班牙裔学生，该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与，并了解指导、第一年学习社区和研究如何支持这一学生群体的留住和毕业。该项目的总体目标是增加STEM领域低收入、高成就的本科生的学位完成情况。有三个具体目标。首先是招收24名低收入、有才华的本科生，包括即将入学的新生和社区大学转校生，他们主修国家关键的工程和计算机科学领域。二是留住学者在指定领域取得的学位成就。第三个目标是提高学者的毕业率。该项目将研究参加联合课程活动，如第一年的学习社区、指导、实习、研究经验和专业发展活动对保留率和毕业率的影响。项目结果将与之前的S-STEM队列以及与相同专业的非学者进行比较。特别是，该项目有可能促进对工程和计算机科学的一年级学习社区如何提高一年级学生保留率的理解。项目的评价战略包括确定项目战略方案调整的内部和外部进程，以及确定项目影响的总结性信息。这些成果将通过研讨会与校园社区分享，并在国家工程学会议和教育期刊上更广泛地传播。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学业成功、留住、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). TAMUCC is a Hispanic-Serving and a minority-serving institution in South Texas that serves a large proportion of Pell eligible and transfer students. Over its 6-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 24 first-year and transfer undergraduate students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Computer Science and will receive up to four-years of scholarship support. Building on a prior S-STEM award, the project aims to increase student retention and graduation of scholars through effective co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, such as mentoring, academic counselling, first-year learning communities, undergraduate research, internships, professional development seminars, graduate school preparation and scientific conferences. The project will retain scholars through a cohort-based learning community augmented by support services tailored for freshmen and transfer students. With the support of a team of faculty, industry, and peer mentors, students will progress towards graduation and prepare to enter graduate school or the workforce. Because TAMUCC has a high population of underrepresented Hispanic students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and to learn how mentoring, first-year learning communities, and research, support retention and graduation of this student population.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields. There are three specific aims. First is to recruit 24 low-income, talented undergraduates, including incoming freshmen and community college transfer students majoring in the nation’s critical fields of engineering and computer science. Second is to retain scholars to degree achievement in designated fields. The third objective is to increase the graduation rates of the scholars. The project will examine impacts of participating in co-curricular activities such as, the first-year learning community, mentoring, internships, research experiences and professional development activities on retention and graduation rates. Project results will be compared to the prior S-STEM cohorts as well as to non-scholars in the same majors. In particular, the project has the potential to advance understanding of how a first-year learning community in engineering and computer science increases retention of first-year students. The project’s evaluation strategies include both internal and external processes to determine programmatic adjustments to project strategies and summative information to determine the project's impact. The results will be shared with the campus community through seminars and disseminated more broadly at national engineering conferences and publications in education journals. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.