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Successes and Difficulties Experienced by Engineering Transfer Students at a Large Public University

Conference Session
Engineering/Engineering Technolgy Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Colleen Elizabeth Bronner, University of California, Davis; Jennifer H Choi, University of California, Davis; Jason White, University of California, Davis
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two-Year College
havelimited documented evidence of their effectiveness. To better address their needs and provide afoundation for future efforts to support transfer student success at four-year institutions such asUC Davis, it is necessary to obtain relevant knowledge regarding barriers to facing thesestudents.The objective of this paper is to present identified barriers to UC Davis College of Engineeringtransfer student success and to document perceptions and experiences of these transfer students.Data was obtained through an analysis of survey data from upper division engineering studentsand three focus groups of transfer students. Current transfer students both confirmed previouslyreported barriers and identified new barriers, reflecting their struggle with a
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Board 134: The Development of a Context-based Summer Research Program for Community College Faculty in Science and Engineering

Conference Session
Two-Year College Division Poster Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two-Year College
, the CC faculty attended 4 research seminars throughout the summer that focusedon the research being conducted by faculty on UCB campus in various areas. The CC facultyalso attended sessions by the leaders of the research topics (alternative energy, cyber security,wearable medical devices, green and sustainable manufacturing, and nanotechnology) that gavethem an overall view of current research goals and progress. The goal of hosting these seminarsis to describe real world problems being worked on, as well as providing access to leading-edgeresearch outside of their own primary laboratory.Beyond these seminars and workshops, CC faculty were asked to complete weekly homeworkassignments that asked them to reflect on their research progress and
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Development of a Cohort-Based Program to Strengthen Retention and Engagement of Underrepresented Community College Engineering and Computer Science Students

Conference Session
Two-year College Potpourri
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Jenny Ngoc Le, Skyline College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two-Year College
, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, or some EnvironmentalSciences. If we consider attrition from subsequent courses in these sequences, only about 33% ofstudents who enter the CHEM I and II sequence complete it, and only 40 of every 100 do so inthe Physics sequence.These attrition points reflect the reality that the vast majority of Skyline College students,including many interested in pursuing STEM-related careers, are not ready for college-levelmath when they get to the college. On the math placement test administered to students enrollingfor the first time in Fall 2014, only 16% of students placed in Transfer-Level Math(Trigonometry). Far fewer Latinos (5.4%), African Americans (7.1%), or Pacific Islanders(11.1%) did so. In fact, 60% of the
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Insights on Retention of Underrepresented Minority Electrical and Computer Engineering Transfer Students (Experience)

Conference Session
Engineering/Engineering Technolgy Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Samuel Paul Merriweather, Texas A&M University; Karen L. Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Shannon Walton, Texas A&M University; Judy Kelley
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two-Year College
diversity efforts with ETSscholarships and matriculation activities. The targeted transfer institutions and communitycolleges had high student enrollments of African American and Hispanic American students, twohistorically underrepresented groups in STEM fields in the US. Twenty-two (22) of the thirty-five (35) ETS participants were underrepresented minority (URM) students. Almost half (17/35)of ETS participants transferred to TAMU as electrical and computer engineering (ECE) (13) orcomputer science (4) majors. Ultimately, 29 of the 35 (about 83%) ETS participantscompleted bachelor degrees after transferring to TAMU. This paper discusses activities,successes, and challenges during the project implementation and reflections on importantfindings
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University – State College Curriculum Model for Student Success in Engineering and Computer Science Programs

Conference Session
Two-year College Potpourri
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Dana Hamadeh, Palm Beach State College; Annie Laurie Myers, Broward College; Michael Vitale, East Carolina University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two-Year College
theadvantage of one of the largest and most diverse populations of learners in the state of Florida. TheBC and PBSC student populations reflect the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of the SouthFlorida area, with a majority of the enrolled students hailing from minority backgrounds.The articulation program has intended to build a sustainable and growing pipeline of studentsenrolling in Computer Engineering and Computer Science majors. The implementation of theprogram has centered on student success. As we prepared the program, we asked, “What dostudents need to successfully decide/get into college?” In addition to the reducing the worryabout how they would pay for College, we recognized that students need support in terms ofmentoring and advising
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Strategies for Developing, Expanding, and Strengthening Community College Engineering Transfer Programs

Conference Session
Engineering/Engineering Technolgy Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Two-Year College
necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation or the US Department of Education.REFERENCES1. NSF, Division of Science Resources Statistics. 2017. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. Available at https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17310/.2. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest for Education Statistics, Available at https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_219.70.asp.3. Joint Venture Silicon Valley (2012). The 2012 Index of Silicon Valley p. 36, Available at http://www.jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/2012index-r2.pdf.4. NSF, Division of Science Resources Statistics. 2017. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
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