Scholarships, Mentoring, and Career Development to Support Attainment of Software Engineering Graduate Degrees

支持获得软件工程研究生学位的奖学金、指导和职业发展

• 批准号: 2029287
• 负责人: Stan Kurkovsky
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Central Connecticut State University
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029287&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Mentoring; Career; Development; Support; Scholarships; Mentoring; Career; Development; Support

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 at Central Connecticut State University. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 24 unique full-time and part-time students who are pursuing master’s degrees in Software Engineering. Scholars will receive scholarship support for up to one year of prerequisite coursework, as needed, and up to two years to complete the degree on a full-time basis or up to three years on a half-time basis. Project activities will focus on three strategies for sustaining engineering graduate students: recruitment, mentoring and support, and career development. The project will be designed to attract Scholars with a broad range of STEM experiences and offer them a unique opportunity to combine their interdisciplinary background with the study of software engineering. Admitting Scholars as cohorts will create a supportive environment that supports Scholars’ academic success, retention, and timely graduation. This project builds upon successful prior S-STEM projects at the University, which established a well-functioning student support infrastructure. It also builds upon the faculty and staff experience in these previous projects, incorporating and improving upon the lessons learned so far. By supporting advanced degree attainment of low-income high achieving graduate students from non-traditional and interdisciplinary backgrounds, the project has the potential to increase workforce diversity in the software industry and help to address the national shortage of software professionals.The project will support the study, implementation, and evaluation of curricular and co-curricular activities leading to the improved academic success of low-income academically talented graduate students. The proposed strategies are consistent with existing practices in higher education leading to the successful persistence of low-income students, including those from historically underrepresented groups. The project will help address an under-studied research question regarding the relationship between the level of identity as a software engineering professional and graduation rates for academically talented, low income graduate students. The research team will use a mixed-methods approach that will collect both quantitative and qualitative data and will employ a two-round data collection plan. 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.

该项目将通过支持中央康涅狄格州立大学的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，这将促进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。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为追求软件工程硕士学位的24名独特的全日制和兼职学生提供奖学金。学者将根据需要获得最多一年的先决条件课程的奖学金支持，并最多两年，以全日制或最多三年的时间完成学位。项目活动将重点介绍维持工程研究生的三种策略：招聘，心理和支持以及职业发展。该项目将旨在吸引具有广泛STEM体验的学者，并为他们提供一个独特的机会，将其跨学科背景与软件工程研究相结合。承认学者作为同伙将创建一个支持学者的学术成功，保留和及时毕业的环境。该项目基于大学成功的S-STEM项目，该项目建立了功能齐全的学生支持基础设施。它还以这些先前项目的教师和员工经验为基础，并在迄今为止所学到的教训中纳入并改进。通过支持来自非传统和跨学科背景的高收入学位的高级学位学位，该项目有可能增加软件行业的劳动力多样性，并有助于解决软件专业人士的全国性短缺。该项目将支持研究，实施和评估当前和同学的活动，从而使高级学术的学术成熟的学生获得了高度的知名度。拟议的策略与高等教育中的现有实践一致，从而导致低收入学生的成功持续存在，包括历史上代表性不足的群体。该项目将有助于解决一个研究不足的研究问题，内容涉及与精确，低收入的研究生的软件工程专业人士的身份水平与研究生率之间的关系之间的关系。研究团队将使用混合方法方法，该方法将同时收集定量和定性数据，并将采用两轮数据收集计划。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的经济需求的准确治疗的低收入学生的数量。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，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支​​持。