Preparing Engineering Graduate Students for the 21st Century

为 21 世纪培养工程研究生

• 批准号: 1565033
• 负责人: Colleen Bronner
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Engineering; Graduate; Students; 21st

Through its project entitled "Preparing Engineering Graduates Students for the 21st Century (PEGS 21)," the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) will provide a coordinated program of recruitment, retention and workforce development strategies to increase the number and diversity of engineers entering the workforce with the highest level of expertise. The program will provide fifteen scholarships for four years to attract low-income academically-talented applicants to engineering graduate programs at UC Davis. Efforts to recruit students from underrepresented groups, namely first-generation college students and underrepresented minorities, lend to the potential broader impacts of this project. PEGS 21 will have five components that include curricular and co-curricular elements: targeted recruitment of students from California institutions, many of which have large Hispanic student populations, through career fairs; multi-level mentoring at the pre- and post-enrollment stages; cohort development and academic skills training; workforce readiness guidance; and reduced time commitment for Teaching Assistant or Graduate Student Research appointments made possible by the S-STEM scholarship funds. PEGS 21 is expected to increase the number of low-income, academically talented, first generation engineering graduate students enrolling, graduating, and ultimately entering the workforce by at least sixty students over four years. Their enrollment will provide the opportunity to systematically determine if extant curricular and co-curricular strategies are effective in overcoming noted barriers to flow-income, first-generation students' graduate degree completion.The objectives are to: (1) increase the number of students applying to engineering graduate programs with an emphasis on low income academically talented first generation (LIATFG) students, (2) increase the admission rate of LIATFG students by improving the quality of submitted graduate applications, (3) increase the number of LIATFG students completing engineering graduate programs, (4) strengthen workforce skills of LIATFG engineering graduates, and (5) contribute to the body of knowledge about successful strategies to recruit, graduate and prepare LIATFG students for the 21st century workforce. Building on the literature regarding graduate degree attainment for first generation college students, PEGS 21 will implement and investigate the impact of a set of strategies for overcoming barriers to the pursuit and/or completion of graduate degrees in engineering, thereby contributing to the knowledge base of efforts to broaden the participation of LIATFG students in advanced engineering degree programs.

加州大学戴维斯分校 (UC Davis) 将通过其名为“为 21 世纪培养工程毕业生 (PEGS 21)”的项目提供协调一致的招聘、保留和劳动力发展战略计划，以增加工程师的数量和多样性以最高水平的专业知识进入劳动力队伍。 该计划将在四年内提供 15 个奖学金，以吸引低收入、有学术才华的申请者进入加州大学戴维斯分校的工程研究生课程。 从代表性不足的群体（即第一代大学生和代表性不足的少数族裔）招收学生的努力有助于该项目产生更广泛的潜在影响。 PEGS 21 将由五个组成部分组成，其中包括课程和课外元素：通过招聘会有针对性地从加州院校招收学生，其中许多院校拥有大量西班牙裔学生；注册前和注册后阶段的多层次指导；群体发展和学术技能培训；劳动力准备指导； S-STEM 奖学金基金减少了助教或研究生研究任命的时间投入。 PEGS 21 预计将在四年内增加至少 60 名低收入、有学术才华的第一代工程研究生入学、毕业并最终进入劳动力市场的人数。 他们的入学将提供机会系统地确定现有的课程和课外策略是否能有效克服流动收入、第一代学生完成研究生学位的明显障碍。目标是：(1) 增加学生数量申请工程研究生课程，重点关注低收入学术天才第一代 (LIATFG) 学生，(2) 通过提高提交的研究生申请的质量来提高 LIATFG 学生的录取率，(3) 增加完成工程的 LIATFG 学生数量研究生课程，(4) 加强 LIATFG 工程毕业生的劳动力技能，(5) 为有关招募、毕业和为 21 世纪劳动力做好准备的 LIATFG 学生的成功策略的知识体系做出贡献。 基于有关第一代大学生研究生学位获得的文献，PEGS 21 将实施并研究一系列策略的影响，以克服追求和/或完成工程学研究生学位的障碍，从而为第一代大学生的知识库做出贡献努力扩大 LIATFG 学生对高级工程学位课程的参与。