Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Two Year College Division

with term projects,capstone projects, career advising, and job searching. Each mentor was assigned up to 10mentees. Each mentor was supposed to spend approximately 100 hours per year. Each mentorcompletes two surveys during the academic year and submits a summary report at the end ofeach year. Based on student response rates to portfolio activity, we expected most of our ETstudents to take advantage of this service. We recruited 10 professional mentors in the first yearand increased the number to 20 by fifth year.Measuring Program EffectivenessOur project was expected to impact the following number of individuals (Table 3)Table 3: Benchmarking impact throughout the projectCC Recruitment 15,000 STEM majors at area CCs (CC)Regional

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Two Year College Division

-year transfer institution, reduce the effects of transfer shock, and enhance their academicsuccess at the baccalaureate institution, the COMETS program provides opportunities toparticipate in the Intersegmental Enrollment Program. Every fall semester for each year of thegrant, four Cañada College sophomore students—one each from the areas of civil, mechanical,electrical, and computer engineering—are selected to participate in upper-division courses orsenior design capstone courses at SFSU.For the 2010-2011 academic year, the civil engineering student participated in the design andconstruction of a timber bridge. The mechanical engineering student participated in a project onMaterials and Manufacturing. Both the computer engineering and the

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; F. Carroll Dougherty, University of South Alabama

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Two Year College Division

drinking water. Each group evaluated a water sample usingdiffering amounts of a coagulation mixture followed by differing depths for the filtrationprocess. The students shared their data, subsequently creating plots that were then evaluatedto find the optimum values for the two processes. They were also asked to expand theirfindings to encompass a full scale water treatment plant and calculate the required amounts ofchemicals and resources.After the students completed the lab analysis using Excel, they were given instruction on howto generate a well-written engineering report. These were group lab reports, so time was alsospent discussing how to share efforts and work together. The senior capstone design classesat USA require group reports, so