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Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Department of Industrial Technology is providing the needed support and educationalmaterials and graduate students support for both STC and South Texas technical colleges toassist them with this task. This include faculty training, updated software, online training,resources needed to train qualified manufacturing technicians, and recruiting and promotingadvanced manufacturing careers as an attractive option to high school seniors. Page 25.727.3 Total College Technical College City Degrees Offered Degree Plan

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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community colleges.5 This studywarns that there is not just one magic cure for student success but an accumulation of events andexperiences that will affect the success of a student. The 13 promising practices (which arereally not new) fall in the three areas of Planning Success, Initiating Success, and SustainingSuccess.5 Page 25.413.2Many CC students are undecided in their career choice. Of 61 university transfer students in anengineering scholarship program in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), 19 (31%) did not know what they wanted to major in and this influenced theirdecision to go to a community college

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Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Martha M. Ellis

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Board Mary Smith has been employed with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 1987 and now serves as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy. She is responsible for the administration and management of matters related to the board’s higher education academic planning and policy functions, and she provides leadership on key projects, reports, and studies that cut across divisions of the agency. She has taught at the University of Texas, Austin,, and she currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin. Smith serves as the Project Coordinator for the $1.8 million productivity grant awarded to Texas from Lumina Foundation for Education

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Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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public University to submit and jointlymanage a CIPAIR NASA grant to improve the engineering curricula at both institutions bycreating new NASA inspired courses and/or improving existing courses by infusing them withNASA related materials. An important part of the program was the development of anundergraduate research plan that would help students relate their NASA sponsored research withSTEM course content and classroom activities. This partnership was intended to utilize thedominant transfer path for engineering students from our two-year college to complete theirbachelor degree.An intense advertising campaign was initiated in the early spring of 2010 to recruit qualifiedstudents and the results exceeded our expectations by a substantial

Conference Session

Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi, Bakersfield College; Julio R. Blanco, California State University, Bakersfield

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Planning. Blanco earned his Ph.D. in physics at Penn State University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees also in physics at CSU, Northridge. He has more than 35 years of academic, administrative, aerospace research, and management experience. He has supervised 14 master theses and 11 honor undergraduate theses, as well as supervised research and postdoctoral fellows. He has more than 30 peer-reviewed research articles and has participated in lead roles in research projects over his career in excess of $100 million. His area of expertise is experimental condensed matter physics, particularly in the characterization of semiconductor thin films used in the elec- tronic industry. Currently, he is leading the

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Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Catherine Baker Lipe, Cañada College

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in Calculus 1, or higher, at the time of the award, andare within two years of completing their Student Educational Plans (SEP) and transferring.Achievement Level 3 is for students who are within a year of completing their lower-divisionstudy at Cañada. The Transfer scholarship is for students who have completed all courseworkincluded in their educational plan and are transferring at the time of the award. Table 2 shows thenumber of awards for each achievement level. Number of S-STEM Awards Level Amount Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4Achievement Level 1 $3,000 9 10 9 9Achievement Level 2

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Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael G. Jenkins P.E., California State University, Fresno; Walter V. Loscutoff, California State University, Fresno; Thomas Nguyen

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– California Master Plan for Higher Education4 (adopted in 1960)However, pressures from multiple sources are pointing to the need to change the way highereducation approaches engineering degrees. For example: • Stagnant numbers of new degreed engineers annually despite increasing demand (e.g., about 75,000 to 80,000 BS degrees per year in the United States since 2000)2 • Mandates for greater degree efficiency (e.g., minimum 120 semester-unit graduation requirements) in public institutions such as those in California3 • Increased costs of four-year undergraduate engineering programs at single institutions make attractive a cost-effective option that involves a two-year, lower-division pre- engineering program at one

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Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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” Build prototype Assignment Possible solutions Week-4: Transition from problem domain to solution domain Lecture “Research and Decision making in engineering Evaluate Laboratory Study and select the solution Solution” Assignment The solution evaluations Lecture Test plan design Build robots Week-5: Laboratory Test robots “Build and Test” Write the test report Assignment The building, testing and comparing robots Lecture Become familiar with writing an engineering report Week-6

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Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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-technology fields are also introduced to Page 25.1254.6indicate the inter-disciplinary nature of this field. Additionally, chemical sensors and sensorarrays are introduced and applications discussed. The students have the opportunity in lab toperform signal conditioning using op-amps and to control measurement instruments and do dataacquisition using computer control software (LabView or Agilent VEE). One of the difficultiesof running the course in this manner is the lack of one appropriate textbook for student reference.In the future, data acquisition of real world sensor data is planned as an extension of the use ofLabView. Furthermore, future

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Chosang Tendhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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(task-specific self-efficacy) under normative conditions. Self-efficacycan also be viewed as one’s belief in their ability to overcome barriers to achieve a desiredperformance (coping efficacy). Within SCCT, task specific and coping efficacy are both studiedas predictors of choice goals and persistence. Interests refer to people’s likes and dislikes aboutan activity (engineering). An outcome expectation is the belief about the consequences ofperforming a behavior (e.g., earning money or helping others). Goals are the intention, plan, oraspiration to engage in an activity (e.g. engineering studies) or to obtain an outcome (become anengineer)4,6

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Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Robert Elliot Steffen, Western Carolina University; Robert Wayne Ford, Western Carolina University

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locatedthroughout the state. Accrediting organizations and taxpayer considerations have propelled costefficiency measures, such as student retention, to the forefront of strategic plans for the state’suniversities. Over 222,000 students were most recently served by University campuses. Of thisnumber of students, about 32,000 were freshman undergraduates [UNC, 2010]. Based uponaverage campus retention rates of 80.7%, almost 6200 freshman students would be expected todrop out in their first year. At a conservative estimate of $10,000 per year in average tuition andexpenses per student, this dropout rate could cost as much as $62,000,000 annually to taxpayersin North Carolina. State and local tax burdens hit a 25-year high, according to a Tax Foundationstudy

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul J. Chanley, Northern Essex Community College

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conductedinternally by NECC and comparisons as to choice of major and subsequent success inmathematics courses were made to similar students at NECC who did not participate in thesummer bridge programs. These findings are also reported in the paper.The paper concludes with modifications to the summer bridge program planned for 2012 inresponse to the results of the first four years.Summer Bridge Program- IntroductionThis paper describes the Summer Bridge Programs (SBP) designed to ease the transition to theprograms in various Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields atNECC. The four-day SBPs were held in August of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. All four SBPswere funded by the National Science Foundation through a grant to Northeastern