Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

desired into any two year curriculum, pre or post.Knowledge alone does little to motivate and prepare students to become true engineers,regardless of the specific field. This is an area where the two-year colleges could have atremendous impact with a clearly defined mission. At this level, they could be shaping broaderhabits of mind to prepare students to think like engineers without forcing them to select aspecialty at the beginning of their academic studies. This would be similar to other professionslike medicine, architecture, or law. The two-year engineering science programs should introducestudents to engineering principles and analysis, the engineering design process, and the variety ofengineering disciplines while covering the basic math