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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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options.Since inception the overall mission of the program has remained the same while specificcomponents have been transformed to reflect the changing needs of our student population.A brief review of the academic accomplishments of participating students in previous EDGEprograms as reported by National Student Clearinghouse in December 2014 is shown in Table 1.Education Enrolled Not in Enrolled in Graduated Enrolled in Graduated GraduatedLevel in EDGE Records a 2 Year with a 4 Year with a with a College Associate University Bachelor’s Master’s Degrees Degree Degree# Students

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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-reporting of future plans, especially as they relate to transferring to a university or to graduate school  Overall level of satisfaction with the summer research program  Any suggestions that they have for improvementEvaluation ResultsOne of the goals of the REU program is to increase the diversity of the students who are pursuingdegrees in STEM, especially advanced degrees in STEM. Table 1 includes the demographic datafrom the program across the three years of operation under the REU Site funding. Table 1. Demographics of Student Participants 2012 2013 2014 Male 11 12

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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hasspecific objectives that will support these goals. They are: (1) develop and maintain an effectiveliaison between BRCC and LSU; (2) utilize scholars to develop a peer ambassador/mentorprogram facilitating transfer success; (3) establish and conduct a pre-transfer academiccounseling program; (4) expand existing seminars to orient and integrate BRCC and othertransfer students into LSU and (5) invite BRCC math, science and engineering faculty toparticipate in ongoing Faculty Development.Activities of the program to date have included outreach, professional development, advising,and developing an overall assessment tool. All scholars participated in outreach activities thatconsisted of Peer-to-Peer talks at BRCC each semester and Shadow Days at LSU

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica M. Cortez, Texas A&M University; Teri Kristine Reed, Texas A&M University; P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University; Sylvia E. McMullen, Blinn College; Jackie Perez, Texas A&M University

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identified as an essential component in the U.S. STEM Educationsystem with a total of 1,738 2-year institutions: 967 public, 100 non-profit and 671 private.1 In2012, there were over 20 million students enrolled in an academic institution across the UnitedStates with over 6 million being educated at a two-year public institution.2 These public two-year institutions also have a large population of underrepresented minorities with approximately34% of the total number of African Americans enrolled in an academic institution and 46% ofthe total number of Hispanics students enrolled in academic institutions.3 In addition toexpanding underrepresented minority participation through institutional partnerships with two-year public institutions, 33% of the

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Marbella Camacho, Cañada College

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, President Obama called for 1 million new STEM graduates within the next decade. Thiscall to action was met with a myriad of local and federal educational initiatives, STEM-specificgrant funding, and an emergence of STEM programming at every level of our education system.This new momentum also focuses on the under-representation of minorities and women pursuingSTEM. As a federally-designated Hispanic-serving community college, our goal of fosteringmore STEM-educated students is embedded within a complex web of obstacles and challenges.In response to these challenges, The STEM Center at Cañada College identified four keyobstacles faced by a majority of our community college students interested in STEM: 1)exponential attrition – the longer the course

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Karam-Zanders, Louisiana State University; Dina Acklin, Louisiana State University; Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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institution (Section 1).We asked the students to provide demographic information such as: gender, age, family status,etc. (refer to Section 5 in Appendix A for the complete list of questions). Questions weredesigned for two main purposes: to determine any preexisting differences between the groupsand to determine the unique needs of transfer students. Presumably, most of these answers werenot expected to be different among community college attendees, however we do expect there tobe significant differences between those who attended community college and those who did not(traditional 4-year university students). For the current paper, we were only able to compare thedemographic responses of existing Pathway Scholars and anticipating transfer students

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brooke Charae Coley, University of Virginia; Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia

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 production  and  retention  of  Science,  Technology,  Engineering  and  Mathematics  (STEM)  talent  is  currently  a  major  threat  to  the  country2.    In  fact,  to  address  heightened  concern  regarding  the  United  States’  global  position,  several  national  efforts  have  been  implemented  to  increase  the  number  and  diversity  of  students  pursuing  degrees  and  entering  STEM  careers.    In  2012,  the  President’s  Council  of  Advisors  on  Science  and  Technology  announced  that  by  2022,  the  country  would  need  1  million  more  STEM  professionals  than  projected  to  be  produced18.    One  critical  asset  to  reaching  this  capacity  lies  in  the  cultivation  of  competent,  adaptable  engineers  prepared

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Peter Vogt, Salt Lake Community College

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. Page 26.465.21 IntroductionMany community colleges, including Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), have increasinglycomplex demographics. To name a few, this includes traditional, non-traditional, working full-time, and family committed students. SLCC’s mission is directed toward such a body of studentsbecause it is an ”. . . open-access, comprehensive community college committed to serving thebroader community. . .” [1]. It achieves this mission statement by focusing on 4 core themes. 2 ofthese 4 are most applicable to the topic presented in this paper which are Access and Success andTransfer Education [2] . In addition to obstacles presented college-wide, engineering students face significant intellec-tual challenges. To be successful

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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engineeringtechnology programs are based on increasing self-efficacy. Self-efficacy has been used instudies as a measure of engineering design4, persistence5,6, success in mathematics7,8, gender inengineering education9,10, career choice11, and more. Self-efficacy has been shown to becorrelated with several key personal and academic characteristics, as outlined in Table 1.Students who have high self-efficacy for circuit analysis should have high confidence in theirresponses to an assessment of circuit analysis. Table 1. Characteristics Correlated with Self-Efficacy Number of college Hours worked each week12 Total time in program13,14

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

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community and technical colleges, or the students attending those colleges. A studyby Calcagno, Bailey, Jenkins, Kienzl, and Leinbach (2006)1 shows that within six years oftransitioning to college, only slightly more than 30% of entrants received any kind of a certificateor degree.Moreover, even though community colleges embrace an open-door policy with the intention ofdemocratizing opportunities, the completion of a certificate or a degree remains correlated withthe level of socioeconomic advantage5. In fact, students with a middle-class socioeconomicstatus benefit more from community colleges3. Even though a large amount of government Page

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney Hadsell, Cañada College; Tracy Huang, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Cañada College

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participate in the program.This paper will discuss the successes, obstacles, and best practices in developing andimplementing academic support programs for two-year college engineering students. Page 26.1244.21. IntroductionThere is a large push from multiple directions to increase the number of students in the UnitedStates graduating with STEM degrees. Recent projections show that there must be a 34%increase of students graduating in STEM fields within the next decade to allow the US to remaincompetitive on the world stage. (1) There are numerous academic routes for students to enter aSTEM field and due to the rising cost of traditional 4-year

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County

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scholarship recipients (15%) have not transferred or graduated from Page 26.793.3CCBC and are not taking classes in Spring 2015.IntroductionThe need for college graduates with technology degrees, particularly in Information Technology(IT), Networking Technology (including Information Systems Security) (NT), EngineeringTechnology (ET) and Multimedia Technology (MMT) continues to grow. According to TheGeorgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, STEM will be one of the fastestgrowing occupations through 2020 with a 26% increase in employment in each category,creating 2.6 million job vacancies over the decade.1 The largest increases are

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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strategiesintended to increase student interest, achievement and persistence in engineering are based onincreasing self-efficacy, which is a better predictor of those outcomes2,3.A logical starting point for examining this topic as it relates to community college students is toexamine the relationships between conceptual knowledge of DC circuit analysis with self-efficacy for circuit analysis. An instrument was created to measure the relationship betweenself-efficacy for and conceptual knowledge of DC circuit analysis. The instrument was a three-tiered concept-inventory that included: Tier 1: Multiple choice assessment of understanding related to a DC analysis concepts. Tier 2: Multiple choice question regarding subjects’ reasoning for

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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“graying” of the incumbent biomedical workforce andpending retirements was also considered. Some of the committee, including this author, felt thatthis proposed initiative presented an opportunity for the faculty to develop a new technicalprogram that would provide new graduates with the needed skill sets for the biomedical/healthcare industry that would be relevant well into the next decade. The unanswered questionswere, “who would take on this task” and “where would the necessary funding come from?”Interestingly and also unexpectedly, during these prolonged deliberations about the pros andcons of the Beacon Alliance requests, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC)5, a quasi-public organization charged with administering the ten year $1

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim Goodwin Roberts, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, North Carolina State University; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University

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and motivated by NCState’s strategic plan to expand the proportion of transfer students, the College of Engineeringteamed with the College of Education at NC State. We established initiatives aimed directly atNC CC’s and their communities: 1) to disseminate accurate information regarding engineering atNC State and 2) to develop a valuable network of higher education institutions in North Carolina.In addition to promoting the transfer of high quality students into engineering at NC State, ourgoal was to improve their retention and performance. In this paper, we detail the strategies weemployed to achieve these goals, including programming and publications created by the Collegeof Engineering, targeted solely to NC CC students and advisors. We

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Two Year College Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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 Pro/Engineer  CATIA  Autodesk InventorAmong all the above mentioned tools, SolidWorks is the most widely used software in industryand also it is taught to students in most of the educational institutions. Hence it is selected to beused as training tool in this paper.SolidWorks is a 3D parameterized design tool, focusing on Para-solid inclined solid modellingenvironment.1 Drawings in SolidWorks can be worked out from previous assemblies or assemblyportions. View generations are automatic and acquired from the solid model itself. Tolerances,notes and dimensional feedbacks, as per the requirement, can be added later on. Modules can beprepared on all standard orientations and layouts like ANSI, ISO, JIS.SolidWorks can

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University; Ben Perry Dillard III; Hope Epps Rivers, SC Technical College System

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distributed to the technical and community colleges across the state. Her 20- years of higher education experience provide a wealth of knowledge to draw from for a host of state-wide initiatives. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 CA2VES, an NSF Regional Center, Enhancing the Talent Pipeline to Support the Advanced Manufacturing IndustryIntroduction The Ready to Work: Job-Driven Training and American Opportunity report identifiedthree major problems in our employment and education system: (1) Employers can’t findenough skilled workers to hire for in-demand jobs they must fill to grow their businesses; (2)Education and training programs need better information on

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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we need to push these opportunities more diligently for our Page 26.942.8students. As we continue this program, we hope to collect more firm data that supports theanecdotal evidence that we have gathered thus far about benefits to our students and how thework will ultimately support their success in future career plans. Whether through open-endeddesign projects, embedded research, or full-semester research endeavors, students come awayfrom the experience with an enriched background that will ultimately serve them well as theycontinue on to their transfer institution and on to graduate school.Bibliography 1. Bahr, D. F., & Norton, M

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Galley, Collin College; Gena S Martin, Collin College; Jeannie Christine Stone, Wylie Independent School District; Becky Hunt, Allen Independent School District; Jean Laswell, Rockwall Independent School District; Lynn Mortensen, Retired Raytheon Company; John W. Sibert, The University of Texas at Dallas

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partnership as well as this paper (see Figure 1). Thegraphic allows one to see the components of the effort. In the case of the high school/two-yearcollege interface, one sees that curricular alignment is a key with clear articulation. The collegeinputs Technical Dual Credit classes into the high school to make sure that the curriculumalignment loop is closed successfully. As shown on the chart, trusted articulation pathways mustbe aligned in terms of curriculum between the two-year and four-year institutions. Importantly,industry’s needs in terms of workers output from the pipeline must be accounted for throughengagement in many ways with all three institutional levels. Finally, the financial implications ofpathway choice for the student must be

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher John Akelian, Cuesta College

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provide effective training  Supply the lab curriculum materials and plans, including parts lists and free software to reproduce the trainingBelow are some pictures of the training equipment, PLC programs, and SCADA displaysdeveloped in the Lab modules.Figure 1 This picture shows some of the equipment developed in-house for alternative energySCADA training. The large roller platform in the center housed an inverter and a weather stationthat was monitored wirelessly. On the side of the roller platform PLC training cards could bemounted for monitoring the inverter voltage and current and passing information to a SCADAsystem. Page

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College; Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College

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institutionalization strategies thatwere eventually employed. We will also discuss this project’s contribution to a greaterSTEM presence and culture on campus which has resulted in our Latino/Hispanic studentsapproaching full representation in STEM and engineering majors on our campus. (Figure 1) Approaching Representation 50% Percentage of STEM majors who are Latino Percentage of Latino students 40% 30% 34% 32% 34% 20% 26% 23% 19% 20% 10

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Donna Kay Chrislip; Rex Allen Parr; Victoria Alexandra Sauber, Arapahoe Community College

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application of the skills they need to becompetitive in the global marketplace. Page 26.168.2The National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) programfunding for the project that initiated this work ended in August of 2011, and follow-through byCIS faculty in continuing the problem-based learning methodology has been inconsistent.IntroductionTwo metro-Denver community colleges participated in the Colorado ATE Partnership (CATEP)in order to advance technician education in the region. This NSF/ATE-funded project (DUE#0802439)1 had a shared vision to develop a model for Information and CommunicationsTechnology (ICT) responsive to

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 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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ethnic group, were the most certain of choosing engineering or CS as a major (79% were very certain or certain).  Males were also more likely (p=.153) to transfer to ASU than females.The students were asked to rank several areas for which they wanted more information. Theareas in order of rank were: 1. Financing a Bachelor’s degree 2. Learn more about engineering 3. Where engineering jobs are located 4. Know more about the engineering majorsIn Fall 2012, we designed a survey for CC students to answer the question: “What about Page 26.550.4engineering attracts or does not attract you

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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andcomputer science.This paper is focused on engineering students who are both transfer students and sophomores,even though they may be classified as upper division students due to their total number of earnedcredit hours. During the 2012-2013 academic year, 581 students transferred into engineering andcomputer science in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU).Of this total, 458 were classified as upper division and 123 as lower division students. Thenumbers of new transfer students in fall 2013 are shown in Table 1. Lower Division Upper Division Total Fall 2013 Female 22 51 73 (15.7%) New Engineering & CS Male Transfers

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Two Year College Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mariano Olmos, El Paso Community College; Tonie Badillo, El Paso Community College

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outstanding cooperation.The project completed all of the original project goals: (1) Advancing collaboration betweenEPCC and the UTEP College of Engineering to support student success through cooperativeadvising, guidance and transfer programs, (2) Promoting student success in the engineeringeducation pipeline through (3) Cooperative advising, curriculum development, and peermentoring that (4) Supports increased enrolments, persistence and graduation rates through ourjoint process of (5) Achieving continuous quality improvement.Working cooperatively, the El Paso Community College [EPCC] and The University of Texas at Page 26.1369.4El Paso [UTEP