CUES: Cornell University Engineering Success Program

CUES：康奈尔大学工程成功计划

• 批准号: 1317501
• 负责人: Mark Lewis
• 金额: $ 90.81万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1317501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CUES; Cornell; University; Engineering; Success

This project is being supported under a special funding focus for STEP, "Graduate 10K+," an activity of the National Science Foundation, supported in part by donations from the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation, to stimulate comprehensive action at universities and colleges to help increase the annual number of new B.S. graduates in engineering and computer science by 10,000 over the next decade. Building on Cornell Engineering's strong record of recruitment of underrepresented minority (URM) students, the goal of the Cornell University Engineering Success Program (CUES) is to realize the promise implicit in the recruiting success by increasing the retention and graduation rate of URM and first generation college (FGC) students to a level equal to the overall engineering student body. CUES is leveraging investments already made in recruiting, in the pre-freshman summer and in the first year experience to increase the number of Cornell-educated engineers. The CUES project team is implementing three research-proven interventions that address known barriers to the success of highly qualified and talented engineering students: a spatial reasoning course; an engineering math institute combining tuition support for summer courses, collaborative learning and research; and enhanced tutoring.The three proposed interventions, coupled to existing support programs such as mentoring, early intervention and tutoring for first and second year courses support students at points where both the literature and experience at Cornell show it is most needed. The spatial reasoning course is developing a lasting, foundational skill needed for success in gateway mathematics and science classes. The Engineering Math Institute is giving students a chance to get back on track with the core mathematics curriculum and to gain exposure to learning through discovery in a research context. Enhanced tutoring is supporting the success of students in the majors where retention data show that additional attrition occurs. A direct result of the CUES program is the expectation of an additional 170 Cornell Engineering graduates, most of them URM students. Beyond the immediate impact of these additional engineers, the CUES Program is developing a model of how the integration of proven interventions with a comprehensive support network for URM and FGC students can make a significant impact on one of the most difficult challenges to overcome in increasing the number of U.S. engineering and computer science graduates.

该项目的支持是在特殊的资助重点“研究生10K+”的特殊资金重点下，这是国家科学基金会的一项活动，部分由英特尔基金会和GE基金会的捐款提供支持，以刺激大学和大学的全面行动，以帮助增加新的B.S.的年度数量。在接下来的十年中，工程和计算机科学领域的毕业生将增加10,000。康奈尔大学（Cornell）工程少数民族（URM）的学生招募了良好的记录，康奈尔大学工程成功计划（CUES）的目标是实现招募成功的诺言，通过提高URM和第一代大学（FGC）学生的保留率和毕业率与整个工程学学生的水平相等。提示正在利用已经在招聘，在新的夏季以及在第一年的经验中进行的投资来增加受过康奈尔大学教育的工程师的数量。提示项目团队正在实施三项研究证实的干预措施，这些干预措施涉及已知的障碍，以实现高素质和才华横溢的工程专业学生的成功：空间推理课程；一家工程数学学院，结合了夏季课程，协作学习和研究的学费支持；并增强了辅导。拟议的三种干预措施与现有的支持计划相结合，例如指导，早期干预和辅导第一年和第二年课程为学生提供了在康奈尔大学的文献和经验表明最需要的文献和经验。 空间推理课程正在发展网关数学和科学课上成功所需的持久基础技能。 该工程数学研究所为学生提供了一个机会，可以通过核心数学课程重回正轨，并通过在研究环境中的发现来接触学习。 增强的辅导是支持学生在保留数据表明发生其他损耗的学生中的成功。提示计划的直接结果是期望另外170名康奈尔大学工程毕业生，其中大多数是URM学生。除了这些额外工程师的直接影响之外，提示计划还开发了一个模型，该模型如何将验证的干预措施与URM和FGC学生的全面支持网络整合在一起，可以对增加美国工程学和计算机科学毕业生的数量来克服最困难的挑战之一。