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

success in technicaleducation.ConclusionThe findings indicate that to increase diversity in technology and engineering education,programs should be designed to (1) build community college students’ technical capital and (2)help them develop professional identities.Moving students from very well-structured problems to ill-structured problems allows studentsto gradually build the knowledge and skills that they need to deal with problems that aretechnically more sophisticated and ill-structured. Such a gradual approach provides students whodo not have technical capital, or a background with doing hands-on activities or tinkering, anopportunity to acquire it upon joining technical or engineering programs.Students develop professional identities for

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

. Page 24.716.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Community College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship ProgramAbstractEfforts to remain competitive internationally in engineering and technology require a significantincrease in the number of STEM graduates in the United States. A recent report prepared by thePresident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology states that currently less than fortypercent of students entering college to pursue a STEM career end up completing a STEM degree,citing that students typically leave the STEM field in the first two years of their program

Conference Session

An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan; Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

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Two Year College Division

National ScienceFoundation, entitled BLIND FOR REVIEW. The study collected data from engineeringundergraduates and alumni, faculty, program chairs, and associate deans in a nationallyrepresentative sample of 31 four-year colleges and universities and from pre-engineeringstudents at 15 community colleges to examine the curricular, instructional, cultural, andorganizational features that support learning in engineering programs (Table 1). A team ofeducation and engineering researchers developed the survey-based instruments for each of thesepopulations through a rigorous, two-year process that included: 1) literature reviews; 2)individual interviews with administrators, faculty, and alumni; and 3) focus-group interviewswith students. To ensure