Enhanced Engineering Education for Underserved Communities of the San Joaquin Valley

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需要，通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校，一个西班牙裔服务机构和亚裔美国人太平洋岛民服务机构证明经济需要的保留和毕业。在6年的时间里，该项目将为31名正在攻读电气，计算机，土木，地理信息学或机械工程学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。第一年的学生将根据他们完成学位的需要获得4年和5年的奖学金。该项目将整合多种基于证据的高影响力实践（HIP），以支持学生的学业成功。该补助金的主要方面是：a）重点支持和记录有才华的，低收入的，主要是第一代和少数民族大学生的进展，B）工程的莱尔斯学院三个部门之间的合作，以及c）注重基于项目的学习，其中涉及学生在现实世界的工程问题上工作，该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生完成STEM学位的机会。该项目的目的是提高低收入家庭学生的成绩和成果，缩小这些学生与高收入家庭学生之间的差距。该计划旨在支持学生批判性思维和解决问题的能力的发展，并促进创造力，创新和服务社会。该项目的研究计划将监测几个因素，包括学生对自己作为工程师的看法，他们的STEM自我效能，他们的工程身份，他们感知的障碍和担忧，以及指导的有效性，以支持他们的学习，参与和成功。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。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术成功，保留，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价值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 California State University-Fresno, a Hispanic-Serving Institution and Asian-American Pacific Islander Serving Institution. Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 31 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in electrical, computer, civil, geomatics, or mechanical engineering. First year students will receive 4-year and 5-year scholarships depending on their needs for degree completion. This project will integrate multiple evidence-based high-impact practices (HIPs) to support student academic success. The main aspects of this grant are: a) a focus on supporting and documenting the progress of talented, low-income, primarily first-generation and minority college students, b) collaboration among three departments in the Lyles College of Engineering, and c) a focus on project-based learning, which involves students working on real-world engineering problems, linked to community service.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion for low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The aim of this project is to boost the performance and outcomes of talented low-income students to close the gap between those students and their higher-income peers. The program is designed to support student development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and promote creativity, innovation, and service to society. The project’s research plan will monitor several factors, including students’ perception of themselves as engineers, their STEM self-efficacy, their engineering identity, their perceived barriers and concerns, and the effectiveness of mentoring to support their learning, engagement, and success. 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.