Leveraging a STEM-focused Urban Industry Immersion Program to Expand Pathways for Undergraduates into STEM Fields

利用以 STEM 为重点的城市工业沉浸计划，拓展本科生进入 STEM 领域的途径

• 批准号: 1833769
• 负责人: George Quainoo
• 金额: $ 64.99万
• 依托单位: North Park University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Leveraging; STEM; focused; Urban; Industry

This project aims to contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, engineers, and technicians. Over five years, this project will fund 20 scholarships to two groups of 10 students who are pursuing baccalaureate degrees in physics/engineering or biology. The project will support science and engineering students as they participate in a new urban-industry experiential immersion program. This program includes undergraduate research, internships, class projects, job skills development, and opportunities for students to learn about careers in industry. Student cohorts will be guided by faculty to foster strong connections with industry, and to help students develop job skills and knowledge about science and engineering-oriented careers. Dissemination of the project will be facilitated by the Chicago Mayor's Office. Recruitment will focus on students who are members of underserved populations and who are place-bound. Consequently, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM careers.The objectives of the project are to: (1) recruit and enroll academically talented students with demonstrated financial need; (2) create a STEM-focused urban industry experiential learning cohort program; and (3) expand career pathways into the Chicago STEM-oriented (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) job market. In addition to providing scholarships and establishing a system of support for industry immersion experiences, the project will include an outcome-based evaluation study with a formative component to improve project implementation. In addition, the project will conduct a research study that will conduct matched mixed methods comparative studies of the outcomes for Scholars relative to other students. The research study will investigate the socioeconomic factors associated with student preparation, success, retention, and graduation. The findings from the evaluation and research studies will form the basis of a model for city-based learning in science and engineering for place-bound, underserved students in metropolitan areas. This project is funded by the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future scientists, engineers, and technicians, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目旨在满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。 该项目将在五年内为两组攻读物理/工程或生物学学士学位的学生提供 20 项奖学金，每组 10 名学生。该项目将支持科学和工程专业的学生参与新的城市工业体验式沉浸项目。 该项目包括本科研究、实习、课堂项目、工作技能发展以及为学生提供了解行业职业的机会。 学生群体将在教师的指导下，培养与行业的牢固联系，并帮助学生培养有关科学和工程职业的工作技能和知识。 芝加哥市长办公室将促进该项目的传播。 招生将集中于服务水平低下且受地域限制的学生。因此，该项目有可能扩大对 STEM 职业的参与。该项目的目标是：(1) 招收和招收有经济需要的学术天才学生； (2) 创建以STEM为重点的城市工业体验式学习队列计划； (3) 拓展进入芝加哥 STEM（科学、技术、工程、数学）就业市场的职业道路。除了提供奖学金和建立行业沉浸体验支持系统外，该项目还将包括一项基于结果的评估研究，其中包括改进项目实施的形成性部分。 此外，该项目还将进行一项研究，对学者相对于其他学生的结果进行匹配的混合方法比较研究。 该研究将调查与学生准备、成功、保留和毕业相关的社会经济因素。评估和研究的结果将构成城市科学与工程学习模型的基础，为大都市地区受地域限制、服务水平低下的学生提供学习机会。该项目由 NSF 科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加具有经济需求且获得 STEM 领域学位的低收入学术才华学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来科学家、工程师和技术人员的教育，并产生有关低收入学生的学业成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。