Conference Session

Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory L. Heileman, The University of Arizona; Chaouki T Abdallah, Georgia Institute of Technology; Andrew Karl Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

. Specifically, if a course offered by the commu-nity college has substantially similar learning outcomes to some course offered by the university,a student successfully completing the community college course can petition to have this courseaccepted as transfer credit by the university. The work involved in establishing these so-calledcourse equivalences typically involves a review of the community college course syllabus by afaculty member in the department that offers the potentially equivalent course at the university.This is often a time-consuming process that can take months to complete and is sometimes re-ferred to as credit recognition. Unfortunate bias can also be introduced at this stage. For instance,we have heard university faculty claim