Greater Equity, Access, and Readiness for Success in Engineering and Technology: Pathway to and Through Engineering

工程和技术领域更大的公平性、机会和成功准备：通向工程和通过工程的途径

基本信息

批准号：
1930478
负责人：
Lesley Berhan
金额：
$ 100万
依托单位：
University of Toledo
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930478&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Greater Equity Access Readiness Success

项目摘要

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund seven-semester scholarships to 30 students in the University of Toledo's University College. The Scholars will pursue bachelor's degrees in engineering and engineering technology and related computer science majors. Applicants to the College of Engineering who do not gain direct admission to their desired majors are admitted to the Department of Exploratory Studies within University College, where they receive curricular and co-curricular support in preparation for transfer to the College of Engineering. This project addresses the need to provide Exploratory Studies students with greater access to and success in engineering. Diversification of the STEM workforce is essential for the nation to remain globally competitive. Consequently, increasing the diversity of the local and regional engineering workforce is a long-term goal of this project. Under-represented minority students comprise only about 9% of students who are admitted to the College of Engineering from high school, but comprise nearly 50% of students in the Department of Exploratory Studies. Thus, each cohort of Scholars is expected to be more diverse than the students admitted into the College directly from high school, supporting the effort to broaden participation in engineering at the University of Toledo.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Project activities are designed to create a supportive ecosystem that will promote student belonging, motivation, and success. Activities include community engagement, faculty and peer mentoring, and industry-focused professional development. The project is expected to improve the mathematics preparation and transfer rates of students from Exploratory Studies into engineering. The project will also contribute to the adoption of evidence-based inclusive mentoring and instructional strategies by faculty across the College of Engineering, which have the potential to positively impact all engineering students. The project's research plan focuses on analyzing the effects of proposed curricular and co-curricular supports on Scholars' motivation and sense of belonging, competence in and through pre-engineering, and success in completion of an engineering degree. Results from this research have the potential to increase the equitable recruitment, retention, student success, co-op placement, and graduation of students who aspire to careers in engineering. This project is funded by NSF's 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 STEM workers, 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.

该项目将通过支持受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，以支持具有经济需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为托莱多大学学院的30名学生提供七学期奖学金。学者将攻读工程和工程技术以及相关计算机科学专业的学士学位。工程学院的申请人未直接进入所需专业的专业，被录取给大学学院的探索性研究系，在那里他们获得了课程和课外的支持，以准备转移到工程学院。该项目解决了为探索性研究提供更多获得工程和成功的探索性研究的需求。 STEM劳动力的多样化对于国家保持全球竞争至关重要。因此，增加地方和地区工程劳动力的多样性是该项目的长期目标。代表性不足的少数民族学生只有大约9％的高中学院录取的学生，但占探索性研究系中近50％的学生。因此，预计每个学者队列的多样性都比直接从高中录取的学生录取的要多样化，支持扩大托莱多大学的工程参与的努力。该项目的总体目标是增加STEM学位的完成低收入，高成就的本科生表现出了经济需求。项目活动旨在创建一个支持生态系统，以促进学生的归属，动力和成功。活动包括社区参与，教师和同伴指导以及以行业为中心的专业发展。预计该项目将改善从探索性研究到工程学的学生的数学准备和转移率。该项目还将为整个工程学院的教师采用基于证据的包容性指导和教学策略做出贡献，这有可能对所有工程专业的学生产生积极影响。该项目的研究计划着重于分析拟议的课程和课外支持对学者的归属感和归属感，在工程前和通过工程学位完成方面的成功的影响。这项研究的结果有可能增加公平的招聘，保留率，学生成功，合作安置以及渴望从事工程职业的学生的毕业。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金资助，该计划旨在增加具有证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生的数量，他们在STEM领域获得学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得支持。通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评论标准进行评估。