Enhancing Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduate Engineering Students

加强工程本科生的招收和保留

• 批准号: 0756921
• 负责人: Anant Kukreti
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0756921&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Recruitment; Retention; Undergraduate; Engineering

The University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering is increasing and retaining to completion the number of underrepresented students in engineering fields. The project is an outcome a NSF Bridges to Engineering Education (BEE) Planning Grant that held focus group meetings with teachers and administrators from 14 school districts and conducted secondary school and university student surveys. Based on the findings, an alliance was formed among UC engineering faculty and teachers and administrators from 18 school districts within a 100 km radius of Cincinnati to develop this project that targets the 159,623 students enrolled in these districts' public schools. The student population consists of about 41% minority and 49% female students, and about 29% of these students have indicated an interest in engineering.The project is focusing on recruitment and retention. Included among the strategies being used are precollege activities, a summer institute for high school students, both six week and one week summer bridge programs, peer, corporate and faculty mentoring, supplemental instruction, and both summer and academic year undergraduate research opportunities. The first two activities listed are supported by non-NSF funds.

辛辛那提大学工程学院正在增加并保留到工程领域中代表性不足的学生的数量。 该项目是工程教育（BEE）规划赠款的NSF桥梁的结果，该拨款与来自14个学区的教师和管理人员举行了焦点小组会议，并进行了中学和大学生调查。 根据这些发现，在UC工程学院以及来自辛辛那提一公里半径范围内的18个学区的教师和管理人员之间建立了联盟，以开发该项目，该项目针对的是在这些地区公立学校入学的159,623名学生。 学生群体由约41％的少数民族和49％的女学生组成，其中约29％的学生表明对工程有兴趣。该项目的重点是招聘和保留。 在所使用的策略中包括预科活动，一个高中生的暑期研究所，包括六周和一周的夏季桥梁计划，同伴，公司和教职员工指导，补充教学，以及夏季和学年的本科研究机会。 列出的前两个活动由非NSF资金支持。