Conference Session

Two-Year/Four-Year: From Articulation to Matriculation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Two Year College Division

Coordinator for the Texas Alliance for Minority Participation program from 1993 to 2002, and is currently the Department Chairperson for Physics, Engineering, & Architecture. He has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate the findings of physics and engineering education research with education practice. Page 14.505.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 EDGE 2008 Program – The First Signs of MaturityAbstractThis paper presents a brief description and history of the EDGE (Early Development of GeneralEngineering) Summer Bridge Program that was initiated in 2003 1 and focuses on

Conference Session

Two-Year/Four-Year: From Articulation to Matriculation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

support, encourage and motivate students (especially women andunderrepresented students) at three levels: 1) in engineering or math/science classes at thecommunity college level, particularly in the metropolitan Phoenix area, 2) as engineeringtransfers to the Fulton School and 3) as successful graduating engineers. A new exploratoryproject funded by the National Science Foundation (grant # 0836050) is determining theeffectiveness of expanding a program to community colleges in non-metropolitan areas acrossthe state of Arizona by leveraging high school and community outreach activities with thesecolleges.This effort is designed to help build a strategic supply-chain or local pathway that produces adiverse engineering workforce for our local