Access for Engineering Excellence

获得卓越工程

• 批准号: 0422402
• 负责人: Bradley Clymer
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0422402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Access; Engineering; Excellence

This project assists students with good but not honors status in the College of Engineering through programs and financial aid to enable better performance in their coursework and improve their grade standing to honors status. Specific goals include: improve midrange (GPA 3.0-3.4) student study skills and sense of group identity for engineering majors; improve the amount of student time available for coursework and special projects that expand the student experience in engineering; and improve opportunities for off quarters work experiences. The advantages of students gaining honors status include priority scheduling of classes, eligibility for selection in discipline honoraries, and eligibility for in-depth honors experiences such as honors internships and senior honors thesis research projects. Furthermore, students graduating with GPA 3.4 are better positioned for job placement and entrance to graduate programs. To achieve the goals, the project is providing a combination of financial scholarship aid to reduce job related workload, academic support programs, and extended access to off quarter internships. Approximately 50 students are anticipated to participate annually, with continuation in the program through graduation. Eligible students include undergraduate students from all years and fields of engineering. In addition, this project is a pilot project generating preliminary data to present to industrial sponsors who will be solicited to provide ongoing operating support for a long term program with more participants. The intellectual merit of the Access for Engineering Excellence includes the generation of new tracking data on the assessment of financial aid and academic support mechanisms to improve grades of midrange GPA students and to enable these students with more opportunities for rich undergraduate experiences and better positioning for post-graduation job placement and graduate school. The broader impact of the proposed project is a higher number of better educated engineers entering the workplace or graduate school. Furthermore, the target grade range for students in the project is rich with women and minorities, producing better prepared engineers in these groups.

该项目通过课程和经济援助在工程学院具有良好但不荣誉地位的学生，以提高课程的表现，并提高成绩的地位，达到荣誉地位。具体目标包括：改善中端（GPA 3.0-3.4）学生学习技能和工程专业的小组认同感；提高课程和特殊项目的学生时间，以扩大学生在工程方面的体验；并改善宿舍工作经验的机会。获得荣誉状态的学生的优势包括优先安排班级，有资格在纪律荣誉中挑选的资格以及有资格获得深入的荣誉经验，例如荣誉实习和高级荣誉论文研究项目。 此外，毕业于GPA 3.4的学生可以更好地适应工作和研究生课程的入学。为了实现目标，该项目正在提供财务奖学金援助的组合，以减少与工作相关的工作量，学术支持计划和扩展访问季度实习的机会。预计每年将有大约50名学生参加，并通过毕业来延续该计划。 合格的学生包括来自所有年份的本科生和工程领域。 此外，该项目是一个试点项目，生成了初步数据，要向工业赞助商提供，他们将被征求来为与更多参与者提供长期计划的持续运营支持。卓越工程学访问的智力优点包括生成有关评估经济援助和学术支持机制的新跟踪数据，以提高中等距离GPA学生的成绩，并使这些学生提供更多的机会，以获得丰富的本科生经验，并获得更好的定位，以提供后毕业后的工作和研究生院。拟议项目的更广泛影响是进入工作场所或研究生院的受过良好教育的工程师数量更高。此外，该项目中学生的目标成绩范围富裕，妇女和少数民族在这些小组中培养了准备更好的工程师。