This project seeks to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving graduate students with demonstrated financial need. The program addresses the following three critical needs: (1) promotion of graduate degree attainment by high-achieving, low-income students to address demands for a workforce with master’s-level preparation in engineering, (2) implementation of evidence-based academic and student support activities that foster non-cognitive factors such as improved self-efficacy and engineering identity development and help undergraduate students make the transition to graduate degree programs, and (3) graduation of leaders skilled in technology, entrepreneurship and innovation to build and support the economy of the South Coast of New England.

• Principle Investigators: Tracie Ferreira, Shakhnoza Kayumova, Jean VanderGheynst, Hamed Samandari, Raymond Laoulache.