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科普 Nearly Doubles External 研究 and Program Grants in 2020-2021 Over Previous Year
科普 almost doubled the external research and student success program development funds awarded over the previous year to nearly $5.5M. The funds will be used to expand existing programs and create new ones focused on engineering research, 加强本科教育, and developing the STEM pipeline from middle school through college graduation.
教师主导的研究补助金:
- $2M from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for ECO-STEM, to improve undergraduate education through a new model of teaching and learning. The grant will enable 科普 to create Eco-STEM, a healthy education “ecosystem” designed to help all students, 工作人员, 教员在我们共同学习的过程中茁壮成长. 由CE教授Gustavo Menezes领导.
- $1.2500万美元来自NSF ADVANCE Partnership to bring about systemic changes to increase the representation of women, particularly underrepresented minority women, 支持不同群体的平等, in the California State University system engineering professoriate across 19 campuses. CSU Fresno serves as the principal investigator (PI) with 加州大学洛杉矶分校, 圣何塞州立大学, 和加州保利大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校共同合作. 科普 lead faculty is CE Assistant Professor Maryam Nazari.
- 来自NSF的32.5万美元 参加爬坡计划, which seeks to redesign key sophomore “gateway” courses using mastery-based grading to improve course completion rates and foster and measure shifts in student attitudes towards learning, 作为学习者的自信, and the development of engineering identity. 由医学教授大卫·雷蒙德领导.
- $625K from the South Coast Air Quality Management District to create a Graduate Fellows 研究 Endowment Program to support students studying clean-air technologies. 加州大学洛杉矶分校 is home to the NSF-funded Center for Energy and Sustainability and the Sikand Center for Sustainable and Intelligent Infrastructure. Ongoing research concentrates on air quality, 气候变化, 固定温室气体污染, 微型电网, 大数据, intelligent systems and sustainable transportation and energy. 由技术教授David Blekhman领导.
- 来自NSF的42.5万美元 for the acquisition of a combined bi-directional cyclic shear apparatus for research and education on earthquake-resilient infrastructure that will result in a more accurate characterization of soil properties and more reliable and less costly civil engineering designs. 由行政长官助理教授关伟森领导.
- 国家科学基金会的5万美元 授予博士. Masood Shahverdi, 电气副教授 Engineering, and Dr. 乔Jamehbozorg, 电气副教授, to develop an artificial intelligence platform for customized power management in a solar plus battery microgrid.
- 赛灵思4.5万美元 to develop women innovators in bioengineering by providing freshman and sophomore women with skills and experience in medical robotics and mobile health and networking opportunities with professionals in the field. The project is led by ECE Professor Deborah Won and ECE Assistant professor 柯蒂斯王.
- 来自NSF的3万美元 授予博士. Negin Forouzesh, 计算机科学助理教授, to develop a computational structural biology workshop at IEEE BIBM 2021.
- 英特尔实验室的2.5万美元 授予博士. 柯蒂斯王, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, to develop instructional labs and redesign digital design courses to demystify xPU programming for engineering analysis.
- 来自MathWorks的1.8万美元 授予博士. Mike Thorburn, Director of the 凯普斯通高级设计 Program, and Dr. 克里斯·巴赫曼, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, to develop materials for a self-paced workshop on flight dynamics and control of UAV drones using MATLAB and Simulink.
对加速计划的支持:
- 来自大学期货基金会的30万美元 for our newest Acceleration Initiative program, 成功转职及留职(STAR), a partnership between 科普 and Los Angeles area community colleges to create new pathways and pre-and post-transfer peer mentor support to accelerate the success of transfer students coming to 科普. 由董简副院长领导, 加速部主任丹尼尔·加尔文, 和技术主席Rupa Purasinghe.
- 拉尔夫·M的7.5万美元. 帕森斯基金会 for our Acceleration Initiative STEP program, a summer bridge program for students entering 科普 in the fall. Led by 加速部主任丹尼尔·加尔文.
- 来自波音全球参与的5万美元 to double the number of female participants and increase opportunities for parent involvement in our Acceleration Initiatives LAunchPad and MESA programs. LAunchPad is a summer camp for high school girls and MESA is for middle-school outreach. Led by 加速部主任丹尼尔·加尔文 and Outreach Coordinator Thelma Federico.
成功的转移和保留
Dr. Jane Dong leads our “成功的转移和保留” (STAR) program at 加州大学洛杉矶分校 to ensure transfer students from diverse communities have pathways and peer support to succeed in STEM. We’re excited to share College Futures Foundation recognized Dr. Dong in their Leaders Driving Change series. 观看视频，看看Dr. Dong takes a collaborative approach to provide transfer students with the support they need--and how STAR could be a model for the state.