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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Pamela J Silvers, Mentor-Connect/Florence Darlington; Buffy Quinn, University of Southern Mississippi

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have experience in managing a grant-funded project using industry-standard techniques.Guiding new grantees in applying Project Management skills as they implement NSF ATE-funded grants for the first time holds promise for improving project outcomes, reducing thefrustration of a steep learning curve for new PIs, and encouraging follow-on grant proposals tothe ATE Program.The first two principles of project management, (1) set clear objectives from the start and (2)create a project plan, are required to receive a first grant from NSF. When a grant award isreceived, two-year college faculty are invariably faced with working grant-funded activities intotheir already heavily-scheduled work weeks. Knowing about and employing project managementskills

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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plans are as described above;however, what is typically presented to the students at each institution are web pages that containhelpful degree plans for the degrees being pursued. That is, students are generally only vaguelyaware that many different curricula exist for a degree program, and they are likely even less awareof the underlying degree requirements associated with the degree program. The key point is thatwithin each institution, degree plans have been carefully constructed so that if students followthem, they will earn their degrees. Thus, at the bottom of the Community College panel in Figure 1 Community College University AS Program

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University

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14% of the state college (2-year colleges) students earn a bachelor’sdegree in 6 years. The recent National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) 2020-21 Report (Bobbitt, R. et al., Aug 2021) indicated that higher education lost about 191,500 transferstudents in 2020-21, three times higher that 2019-20. Interestingly, HSI universities also reporteda substantial loss in the number of transfer students,(-11.8%).III.2: Florida Trends in Enrollment and GraduationThe Florida College Access Network (FCAN), June 2020, report noted that 42% of the currentlyenrolled college students said that their plans changed including taking a semester or a year off.Other data (FCAN, April 2018) indicate that the three-year AA-degree completion rate of

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Anne K Flesher, Truckee Meadows Community College; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno

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mentor to postdoctoral fellows and many graduate students.Ms. Anne K Flesher, Truckee Meadows Community College Anne Flesher serves as the Dean of the Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Division at Truckee Meadows Community College, where she also oversees the Engineering program. Committed to enhancing STEM education, Anne champions educational reforms aimed at streamlining the transfer process for community college students to four-year institutions. She played a pivotal role in authoring Nevada’s Action Plans, which shifted developmental math education to a corequisite model in 2021. As a representative on the Nevada Alliance team for Complete College America, Anne contributes her expertise to statewide

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu P.E., San Antonio College; Clint Taylor; Sam Ximenes, WEX Foundation; Shazia Iqbal, Rice University; Kathryn Bolish

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andpromising trends in education is the “edutainment” concept, which combineseducational content with entertaining activities so, the participants learn while havingfun.The program proved its flexibility as it was adapted to various locations, number ofparticipants, and time intervals. The paper will present the continuation of the program,the new results, and the plans for future expansion of the program to reach a broaderrange of participants.IntroductionExtensive evidence supports the effectiveness of instructing engineering students inspatial visualization skills, leading to improved outcomes. Research, spanning from theearly 1990s onwards, has consistently shown that practicing and training in spatialvisualization enhances performance in

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Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Yowell, University of Colorado Boulder; Heidi G. Loshbaugh; Nick Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder

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5 25 125 Red Rocks Community College2 4-6 2 25 50 Front Range Community College2 4-6 2 25 50 Arapahoe Community College2 4-6 2 25 50 Totals 17 4251 Year 1 is a planning year for the Community College of Denver.2 Years 4-6 (phase 2) include three “optional” years for scaling, with year 4 being a planning year for three new colleges. Two cohorts of ~25 students, at each new college, will be supported through Engineering

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Dillon, University of Washington; EC Cline, University of Washington Tacoma; Emese Hadnagy, University of Washington Tacoma ; Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amanda K Sesko, University of Washington Tacoma; Rebecca N Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Noelle Wilson

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majors. Preliminary results reinforce prior STEM literature which emphasizes theimportant connections between the development of identity and elements of sense of belonging [23].RQ2: How do activities focused on research identity support transfer students in STEM fields?Our preliminary results indicate the artifact activity was a wonderful way to help students develop aresearch identity in the class. Sharing the artifacts with other students empowered some students to adoptspecific roles in the class over time. The student insights are consistent with prior findings by Rodriguezet al about STEM identity [26].Based on our work in progress results with a small initial offering we plan to continue offering this coursein the future as a bridge for

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STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Will Tyson, University of South Florida; Sanjukta Bhanja, University of South Florida; Geeti Anwar, University of South Florida; Elise Kuechle, University of South Florida

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aid resources [3]. Community college students are also more likely to work full timewhile attending school. Nearly half the population of working students pursues a communitycollege degree [4]. Many students feel pressure to amend their academic plans to their workschedules, making it difficult to maintain regular academic progress [4], [5], [6].Financial barriers pose a significant challenge for community college students aspiring to pursueSTEM four-year university degrees. Students who work outside the university often face a dualcommitment that splits their focus, energy, and time between education and employment,impacting their ability to concentrate on academics [7], [8]. Due to the difficulties that balancingan outside job can present

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Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeyoung Woo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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, and peers more. However, students'meetings with faculty/staff are less frequent than in community colleges. In addition, more transferstudents never met their faculty/staff advisors after transferring, so more close support is needed.The author plans the following recommendations for future works: - to perform the same CSF survey in future years to compare the outcomes, - to perform the same survey with juniors who just transferred to CPP, and - to conduct the CSF survey to other disciplines across the campus.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under AwardNo. 2225128.References[1] J. Sislin, and M. C., Mattis, Enhancing the Community College Pathway to EngineeringCareers

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A Adams P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta College

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the project as a paid researchinternship and the community college faculty instructor who mentored the project was alsocompensated. The current grant is due to expire in May 2025. There are plans to re-apply foranother cycle of three years, in addition the college is exploring ways to institutionalize differentcomponents of the program with an emphasis on finding funding sources for undergraduate studentresearch experiences. One of the major programs that will be utilized to help with the fundingendeavor is the MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement) program that has beenrecently codified into California Education Code, SB 444. For students that don’t qualify forMESA, there are opportunities to utilize funds from other state

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Ifeoluwa Adeniranye, Florida International University; Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University; Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Florida International University; Jingjing Liu, Florida International University

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, retention, and graduation data revealabout the current enrollment and student success trends for Black engineering students from [State]community colleges?A member of the research team with an existing account accessed an interactive reporting toolsplatform from the website at Institution 1. The platform provides a robust database with differentdata point options to select from. First, we downloaded the “enrolled Students by Admit Type”database. A unique feature of this platform was the “choose filter” option, from which we wereable to disaggregate the data by time variables (e.g., academic year and semester), academicstructure variables (e.g., college of engineering and degree plan (BA and BS)), degree and levelvariables (e.g., selecting only

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Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caroline Lubbe, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida; Justin Ortagus, University of Florida; Hope Allegra Allchin, University of Florida; Sofia Isabel Montiel, University of Florida

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often associated with qualitative data, we plan to follow an explanatory sequential casestudy research design where we pursue a rich description of two decades of data to betterunderstand the vertical transfer pathway into engineering degree programs [79]. By considering arich data source of background characteristics, enrollment patterns, and student outcomes over twodecades, this study also aims to contribute to the broader discourse on engineering education byinvestigating trends in vertical transfer student success at research-intensive institutions.3.1 Study Context and Data Source. This study used two decades of data from SU, a large publicresearch-intensive university in Florida. SU was chosen as the case study site due to its strong