Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Leslie Braniger, Galveston College

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Two Year College Division

while still delivering required skills.Naturally, changing this well-established course presented obstacles and trials, from studentregistration to curriculum development. This course is open to any student who is a STEMmajor, has an interest in any STEM field, or has a specific interest in sustainability. However,this meant that even our advisors needed some clarification as to the definitions of STEM andsustainability in order to register students that would benefit from this course. The course wastaught using a team-based approach, with one faculty member from English and one fromEngineering, combining both areas of expertise in the classroom. Additionally, there was a shiftfrom using MLA style to APA style citations. Furthermore, students

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David I. Spang, Burlington County College

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Two Year College Division

. Page 24.345.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Curriculum Design and Assessment to Address the Industry Skills GapAbstractThe bureau of labor statistics notes that the current number of open positions in the United Statesis approximately 3.7 million, yet the official unemployment rate (U-3) remains at 7.3%representing 11.3 million people, while an alternative and more inclusive measure ofunemployment (U-6) is 13.7% and represents 21.2 million people1. The existence of unfilled andavailable positions, as compared to the total number of unemployed persons, is significantlyinfluenced by the availability of qualified candidates in areas for which there is an apparent skillsgap, i.e. jobs for which

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

Paper ID #10207Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Com-munity College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship Pro-gram ˜Prof. Nick P Rentsch, Canada College Nick Rentsch is an adjunct professor of physics, engineering, and computer science at Ca˜nada College, Skyline College, and San Francisco State University. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electrical engineering and computer systems. His technical interests include embedded control, electronic hardware design, analog audio electronics, digital audio signal processing

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Institute of Behavioral Science; Sandra Janette Mikolaski

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Two Year College Division

Required Program/Grant Documentation and Records Provide Professional Development Opportunities For Yourself & OthersTraits & AttitudesThe traits & attitudes most critical to the development of increasingly more complex anddemanding leadership skills include the following: A forward-looking philosophy that prepares one for change A willingness to take risks informed by research and data Page 24.844.7 An entrepreneurial perspective on activities and opportunities A willingness to take ownership and personal responsibility for decisions A high value on Integrity and trustworthiness Flexibility and adaptability in

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Armineh Noravian, San Francisco State University; Patricia Irvine, San Francisco State University

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Two Year College Division

college setting within which they learned design to be very different from theprofessional context for which they were being trained. This manifested itself at the end of theproject in comments such as "if I were a real engineer" (p.25) 19. In this respect, his studydemonstrates the difficulty of building a professional identity in an academic environment.The current study differs from the above studies in a number of ways. First, students at NWCCare community college students and are being trained to be generalist technicians. They learncomputer programming and mechanical, electrical, and pneumatics engineering. In doing so,they necessarily acquire a range of low-tech and high-tech skills. Thus, this is a study of studentswho have to integrate

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

roles of the technology leaderin an educational environment, including developing, planning, implementing and evaluating aninitiative for technology integration. Emphasis will be placed on effective decision-makingstrategies that optimize high quality learner outcomes.SummaryCompleting a Master’s degree in industrial management would provide technical collegeinstructors with leadership experience for developing skills necessary to implement STEM intheir curriculum. It will also introduce the state of the art training and educational materials totechnical college instructors.Implementation of this proposal would contribute to increase the quality and diversity of theadvanced technology and STEM education in technical colleges. It will also

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Sara Mathews Hadsell, Cañada College; Christine Burwell-Woo, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

tests. For tutors that beganwith lower than a 95% average improvement was 18%. An unintended positive product ofphysics jam was the development of a core group of experienced, competent, and confidentgroup of physics tutors for the upcoming academic year. Recruiting students to tutor physics is achallenge particularly at a two-year institution for a number of reasons including low studentconfidence in their ability to tutor and highly qualified students transferring to four yearinstitutions shortly after they complete their physics curriculum. For non-transferring studenttutors summer physics jam gives them the practice and confidence to be an effective tutorthroughout the upcoming school year. Student tutors are essential to helping students

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Two Year College Division

curriculum and the way it is taught canalso impact students self-efficacy; well-structured collaborative experiences and hands-onactivities have been shown to have positive implications for self-efficacy across majority andminority students enrolled in an engineering major [12, 13].Despite the awareness of the importance of self-efficacy, this concept has been studied in alimited sense among community college students [14]. The literature does not address what typesof experiences can improve or enhance self-efficacy among college students as it relates toresearch, and among community college students specifically. This study addresses the gap inthe literature by examining what experiences in the Transfer-to-Excellence Summer ResearchProgram can

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; Chrysanthos Andreas Panayiotou, Indian River State College

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Two Year College Division

broad-based technicalknowledge and skills, with a specialization in an emerging technology, such as photonics,robotics & automation, instrumentation & control, biomedical equipment etc. The AAS degreecurriculum for preparing these techs typically includes a technical core of electronics, plus 3-4specialty courses in one of these emerging technologies. An example that has been tested andproven very successful is in Photonics.Indian River State College (FL) converted its EET program to the Photonics SystemsTechnology (PST) curriculum structure in 2008, including several other specialties such asrobotics, fiber optics communications, instrumentation & control, and biomedical equipment.This change reenergized IRSC’s rapidly declining

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

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

systems-on-a-chip with billions of transistors integrated on a silicon substrate smallerthan the size of a dime. As these new applications evolved, buoyed by the accurate prediction ofMoore’s Law (actually, only an observation) of future increases in microelectronics densities andlower costs, technology has become mainstream in today’s society. Finally, as computers andtheir use has become ubiquitous, the Internet (realized by computer networking technologies) hasbrought us clearly into the digital telecommunications era (think high definition television, 4Gcell phones, and streaming video) and to the cusp of the next evolution in the use of electronicstechnology. Today, the emphasis on electronic systems has prompted debate on how the materialin

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

summerinternships, and 23 were involved in research. This is partly because of an internship programdeveloped through NASA’s Curriculum Improvement Partnership Awards for the Integration ofResearch (CIPAIR) program. Ten of the scholars were involved in the NASA CIPAIR Summer Page 24.529.9Internship Program, another three scholars who are also veterans were involved in a summerinternship at NASA Ames Research Center through the college's Veterans Employment-relatedAssistance Program (VEAP). Additionally, the program team has worked hard in collaboratingwith a number of universities, government agencies and research institutions to provideinternships