Academic Intervention, Social Supports, and Scholarships for Engineering Transfer Students

工程转学生的学术干预、社会支持和奖学金

• 批准号: 1741695
• 负责人: Ignatius Fomunung
• 金额: $ 99.3万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Chattanooga
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1741695&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Academic; Intervention; Social; Supports; Scholarships

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Academic Intervention, Social Supports, and Scholarships for Engineering Transfer Students project will support high-achieving, low-income students with proved financial need at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC). Over the course of this five-year project, twenty-eight students will receive two-year scholarships and eight students will receive three-year scholarships. This project aims to discuss the growing need for chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers. In Tennessee and elsewhere, engineering transfer students often arrive at four-year institutions with many community college credits, but without the prerequisites needed to take junior-level or major-specific courses. As a result, transfer students may need four more years in college to complete the classes needed for graduation, decreasing the likelihood that they will complete an engineering degree. The aim of this project is to ensure that transfer students complete their UTC studies within two years after transferring from a community college. The plan incorporates mentorship, summer coursework, and summer boot camps to ensure a successful transition. A Transfer Learning Community will provide students with a peer support system and help them adjust to university life and overcome academic challenges. A local advisory board for regional schools will help to coordinate curricula among the schools. The project's emphasis on faculty mentoring will help the project have a lasting impact on UTC practices. The project also has the potential for positive impact on the local community through strengthened industry ties and employment opportunities. This project is significant in its potential to find and give best practices to guide four-year institutions across the nation to support the success of transfer students. The project will use a mixed methods study to compare quantitative and qualitative data gathered for scholars versus non-scholar transfer students, non-transfer students, and matched non-scholar transfer students. The study will investigate five research questions: (1) Does taking part in the Summer Boot Camp improve transfer students' academic performance and likelihood of matriculation? (2) Does regular participation in peer tutoring increase transfer students' academic performance and likelihood of matriculation? (3) Which activities most reduce "transfer shock" among scholars? (4) Which activities most improve career placement following graduation? (5) How does the academic preparation affect a student's likelihood of retention and on-time graduation? Information from this research study may increase understanding of interventions, such as learning communities, in improving the academic performance, retention rates and time to graduation for scholars compared to non-scholars. Through the Community College Advisory Board and the research study, this project aims to lay a foundation for a regional alliance that can promote curricular alignment between UTC and area community colleges, supporting a seamless engineering transfer pathway that may be replicable across the state and nation.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.

借助NSF科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划的NSF奖学金，学术干预，社会支持和工程学转学学生奖学金项目将支持田纳西大学Chattanooga大学（UTC）的高分，低收入的学生。在这个为期五年的项目中，二十八名学生将获得两年奖学金，八名学生将获得三年奖学金。该项目旨在讨论对化学，民用，电气和机械工程师的日益增长的需求。在田纳西州和其他地方，工程转学学生经常到达拥有许多社区大学学分的四年制机构，但是没有必要的先决条件就可以参加初级或专业的课程。结果，转学学生可能需要在大学学习四年才能完成毕业所需的课程，从而降低了他们完成工程学位的可能性。该项目的目的是确保转学学生在从社区大学转学后的两年内完成UTC学习。该计划结合了指导，夏季课程和夏季新兵训练营，以确保成功过渡。转学学习社区将为学生提供同伴支持系统，并帮助他们适应大学生活并克服学术挑战。区域学校的地方顾问委员会将有助于协调学校之间的课程。该项目对教师指导的重视将有助于该项目对UTC实践产生持久影响。该项目还通过加强行业联系和就业机会对当地社区产生积极影响。该项目在寻找和提供最佳实践的潜力方面具有重要意义，以指导全国四年制机构以支持转学学生的成功。该项目将使用一项混合方法研究来比较为学者收集的定量和定性数据与非熟练转移学生，非转移学生以及匹配的非challor complast学生。该研究将调查五个研究问题：（1）参加夏季新兵训练营可以改善转学生的学业表现和入学可能性吗？ （2）定期参加同伴补习会增加转学学生的学业表现和入学可能性吗？ （3）哪些活动最少减少学者中的“转移冲击”？ （4）哪些活动最能改善毕业后的职业安置？ （5）学术准备如何影响学生保留和准时毕业的可能性？这项研究的信息可能会增加对干预措施（例如学习社区）的理解，以提高学者的学习成绩，保留率和与非督学相比的毕业时间。通过社区大学咨询委员会和研究研究，该项目旨在为一个区域联盟奠定基础，该联盟可以促进UTC和地区社区大学之间的课程对齐，并支持一项无缝的工程转移途径，该途径可能在州和国家可以复制。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估了基金会的范围，并通过基金会的范围进行了评估，并构成了支持者的支持。

项目成果

ASSETS: Building a Model to Support Transfer Students in Engineering –Work in Progress

资产：建立支持工程转学生的模型 – 正在进行中

• DOI: 10.1109/fie44824.2020.9274046
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE
• 作者: Fomunung, Ignatius;Porter, Marclyn;Rorrer, Audrey;Silver, Christoper;Harris, Bradley;McDonald, Gary;Wu, Weidong;Potter, Lyn
• 通讯作者: Potter, Lyn

UTC ASSETS: Supporting Underprivileged and Underrepresented Engineering Students

UTC ASSETS：支持贫困和代表性不足的工程学生

• DOI: 10.33548/scientia555
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Scientia
• 作者: Fomunung, Ignatius

Increasing the Success Rates of Engineering Students After Transferring into Four Year Colleges from Community Colleges: It’s Much More Than Dollars

提高工程专业学生从社区学院转入四年制大学后的成功率：这不仅仅是金钱的问题

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: MN.
• 作者: Fomunung, I.

IMPACTS OF FACULTY MINDSET AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY ON THE SUCCESS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AT A 4-YEAR INSTITUTION

教师心态和文化能力对社区学院转学生在四年制院校工程专业取得成功的影响

• DOI: 10.21125/inted.2023.0448
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: INTED Proceedings
• 作者: Fomunung, Ignatius

ASSETS: Fostering a community of engineering transfer students - best practices and beyond

资产：培养工程转学生社区 - 最佳实践及其他

• DOI: 10.1109/fie49875.2021.9637412
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE
• 作者: Harris, Bradley J.;Porter, Marclyn D.;McDonald, Gary H.;Wu, Weidong;Silver, Christopher F.;Fomunung, Ignatius
• 通讯作者: Fomunung, Ignatius