Cal State L.A.’s 工程、计算机科学与技术学院 has received a $249,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help launch a bridge program focused on service learning.

Professor Deborah Won is the lead principal investigator of the “BOOST: Bridge Opportunities Offered for the Sophomore Transition.” 联合首席研究员是足彩外围网站的教授Gustavo Menezes， Arturo Pacheco-Vega和Adel Sharif。

这项为期两年的城市服务学习计划将帮助工程专业的学生在他们的核心工程课程中脱颖而出。 该项目针对的是即将进入大二的新生。

“BOOST will bring together identified at-risk students, faculty, and peer-mentors in an intensive seven-week summer program that helps students transition from their basic science and math courses and prepare them for the rigors of the engineering core curriculum,” said Won, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cal State L.A.

BOOST以城市为中心，以设计为中心的服务学习项目，学生将在大一到大二的关键过渡阶段完成。 该项目将为学生提供情境化的、基于问题的学习，同时激励他们通过参与社区活动，在工程教育中取得成功。

“Dr. Won’s ideas and passion for motivating our students continues to result in great success for our students. We look forward to this new project, which will provide opportunities for our students to engage in community service while learning engineering skills,” said Emily Allen, dean of the 工程、计算机科学与技术学院.

通过该项目，Won将与其他教师合作，提高学生的成功，并使STEM劳动力多样化。 她的研究方向是生物医学工程。 But over the past year, she has helped establish and direct a new First-Year Experience program in the college called FYrE @ ECST.

The FYrE @ ECST at Cal State L.A. is part of an initiative underway across the California State University system. The goal is to help meet the nation’s need for 1 million more science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals during the next decade. 该项目为学生提供更全面的建议和STEM基础技能，使他们能够在专业上取得成功，并受到启发完成学位。

“The BOOST program, along with FYrE @ ECST, will help our students to build their identity as future STEM professionals, and at the same time serve our community,” said Won said. “With the enthusiastic support of Dean Allen, the faculty team is excited to bring this new program to our college.”

For more about the BOOST program, contact Won by email at [email protected].

照片: 从左至右依次为BOOST团队成员Arturo Pacheco-Vega、Adel Sharif、Deborah Won和Gustavo Menezes。 （资料来源：艾萨克·加莱戈斯/足彩外围网站）

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08/31/15