Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline College; Tessa Alice Olmstead, Highline College; Judy Mannard PE, Highline Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

to the activity, Aluminum Careers diversity of engineering careers available for Aluminum Foil Foil Boats. them to explore and the processes associated Boats with earning an engineering degree. 4 Learning Styles Introduce and discuss different student Building Activity: Introduce students to the activity, Straw learning styles, emphasizing the importance Straw Towers Towers. of customizing one's learning according to personal preferences 5 Industry Guest An invited guest speaker from industry, Ethics Complete the

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas P Langhoff, Skyline College; Eva Schiorring; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

engineering faculty in developing a Tablet-PC-enhanced model of instruction, as well as developing and implementing onlineengineering courses. The project also involves a partnership among Californiacommunity colleges to design and implement a Joint Engineering Program (JEP) that isdelivered online.The ONE-STEP project accomplished an important first step toward wideningengineering education access, increasing the number of California community collegesthat now offer online engineering courses. As a result, the number of community collegeengineering students who are able to take these courses and be prepared for upper-division courses upon transfer has increased. However, courses requiring laboratorycomponents are currently not offered online in any

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

opportunities to explore the world with my hands – doing and makingthings. That opportunity shaped who I am as a person and opened to me many avenues ofendeavor in the STEM fields. Even though there is much more advanced technology availabletoday, today’s students do not seem to have as many chances to tinker with and touch it andexperience what earlier generations where able to in the technology arenas of the day. Pointingand clicking just doesn’t do it! Hopefully this particular pendulum of popular culture, the“maker” culture, embodied by the Internet of Things concept, is swinging back towards an erawhen the abstraction of STEM concepts by a young person’s mind starts with making and doingthings with readily available, inexpensive technology and of