Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Catherine Baker Lipe; Brandon Price

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Two Year College Division

Guaranteed 4.0 Workshop. This three-day study skills workshop basedon the “Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System22” was piloted in the spring semester of 2010. The core Page 24.529.5emphasis of the curriculum involved equipping students with strategies for classroom success:active listening skills during classroom instruction; self-efficacy and self-advocacy skills forworking with college professors; and a note-taking system for classroom lecture, assignedreading and problem sets, and exams based on pre-conditions, repetition, and effectinginformation input. The program included not only structured DVD viewings of actualGuaranteed 4.0 Learning System

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Hull P.E., OP-TEC; Greg Kepner M. Ed., Indian Hills Community College

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Two Year College Division

position by global standards. 2. Encourage more U.S. citizens to pursue careers in math, science, and engineering.Three years later, the National Academies revisited the situation to look for progress on theirrecommendations. In 2010, the Academies released a new report, “Rising Above the GatheringStorm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5”. The Committee found that little or noprogress had been made on K–12 science and math education or in the number of citizenspursuing STEM careers. They concluded that “the outlook for America to compete for qualityjobs had deteriorated further over the past five years.”5School districts and technology employers across our nation responded by creating Science,Technology, Engineering, and

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

these systems occurs as predicted. Page 24.1232.7 Figure 1 – The underlying technologies of the Internet of Everything (IoE)As shown by Figure 1 above, the underlying technologies of the Internet of Everything consist ofseveral enabling technologies. The cyber-physical system technician will still need to haveknowledge of the basic fundamental DC and AC concepts, be aware of signal characteristics, andhave the ability to use instrumentation and make measurements. Additionally, they will need tobe knowledgeable about: embedded controllers and have the ability to interface signals to thesedevices (i.e. a familiarity with sensors

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

awareness of resources and skills needed for college success,and increase student knowledge of specific engineering topics. These two programs havecontributed to a significant increase in enrollment and success of underrepresented minoritystudents in transfer-level math, science and engineering courses.16,17 Page 24.716.4With the resulting increase in the enrollment of underrepresented students intending to transfer to afour-year engineering program, additional programs need to be developed in order to ensure thesuccess of these students and facilitate their successful transfer and completion of their academicgoals. In 2010, in response to this

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

Carolina: Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.5. Barger, M. Roe, E. Jenkins, B. (June, 2005). AC-2005-1526 The Florida Advanced Technology Education Regional Center for Manufacturing Education. Proceeding of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Portland, Oregon.6. Sifferlen, N. (2003, March). How Community Colleges Are Teaching Technology to Faculty Members. The Chronicle Review, Volume 49, Issue 27, Page B12.7. Heidari, F. (June, 2010). AC2010-412 Study of CAD/CAM/CNC integration in South Texas Technical Colleges. Proceeding of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Louisville, Kentucky

Conference Session

Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Manjari Wijenaike; Dennis M. Faber, FCC, inc.

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Two Year College Division

Investigator and Director for the TIME Center (Technology & Innovation in Manufacturing & Engineering), an Advanced Technological Education Regional Center of Excellence funded by the National Science. Mr. Faber has extensive curriculum design experience in developing customized education, training and occupational certification programs. His leadership helped build the DACUM Resource Center into a respected state, regional and national curriculum and instructional design resource over its sixteen-year history, serving business, industry, labor, government and educational customers and training over 350 DACUM facilitators nationally. He continues to be ac- tively involved in a variety of educational and