Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F. Lewis, William R. Sinkin Eco Centro, San Antonio College; Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

GrowingOverall, the engineering occupations are projected to add 136,500 jobs through 2022. They willcontinue to be needed to design, build, test, and improve manufactured products. However,during this time, increasing employment of engineers in service industries, research anddevelopment, and consulting should generate most of the employment growth [1].The 2015 National Science Foundation’s Survey of Graduate Students and Post-doctorates inscience and engineering [2] found that from 2008 to 2013 STEM graduate students in the U.S.who were U.S. citizens or permanent residents rose 3.1%. Of these, 25.8% were Hispanic and7.8% were African-American.“Finding Your Workforce: Latinos in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)” [3]2015 report found

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

expected incomputer systems design and related services which the U.S. Department of Labor projected togrow 3.9 percent annually from 2010 to 2020, compared with 2.6 percent for professional,scientific, and technical services and 1.3 percent for all industries.2 Between 2012 and 2022,projections for growth in computer and math occupations remain strong at 18%.3 To help meetthe need for STEM technicians, The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) withfunding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), conducted a program from Fall 2010through Spring 2014 that combined community building activities with financial support fortechnology students in the IT, NT, ET and MMT fields. The primary goal of the program, T4:Technology Training for Today

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

 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

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

deployed has already been given. Automobilemanufacturers have already agreed to implement AEB system technology (in 99% of passengervehicles) by the 2022 model year22-23. Google has been testing a fleet of self-driving cars foryears and Ford Motor Company has announced that they are targeting fully autonomous cars forride sharing applications by 202124 as have others like General Motors and Tesla. Toyota, Honda,Mercedes-Benz, and most other major manufacturers have also committed to joining the race toproduce autonomous vehicles but they are less definitive in their expectations of when theirvehicles will actually be ready for market. The technology employed to make autonomous cars areality is extremely complex, cutting edge, and not thoroughly

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackie Perez, Texas A&M University - Dwight Look College of Engineering; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Teri Kristine Reed, Texas A&M University; Cecelia Diane Lawley, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

) the 2011 President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness goal of 10,000 more engineeringstudents from US colleges and universities each year, (b) the 2012 President’s Council onScience and Technology recommendation for one million more science, technology, engineeringand mathematics (STEM) degrees in the next decade, and (c) the Texas Workforce Commissionestimated state projected need of 62,000 more engineers by 2022 (25% increase)1,2,3. Therefore,developing strategic pathways to increase students, and underrepresented students in particular,achieving STEM degrees is essential4.Nearly half (49%) of students earning a bachelor’s degree in science and engineering reportedattending a community college at some point in their education5. Two-year

Conference Session

Two-Year to Four-Year Transfer Programs: Best Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Huang, Canada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

student support services were important in getting a student to transfer, indicated that transfer-ready STEM students who were younger, have earned transferable credits between 60 and 90, and have accessed some level of STEM-specific support services were more likely to transfer to a 4-year institution within a reasonable time frame.1. Introduction According to a federal report issued in 2012, the U.S. needs to have an additional one million STEM graduates by 2022 in order retain historical preeminence in science and technology1. This is an increase of about 34 percent annually over the current rates. The report, along with the federal 5-year STEM strategic plan released in 20132, also proposes that improving retention at

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

% growthin employment8 through the year 2022. This figure certainly seems to indicate that there is a needfor such skills but it really does not tell the entire story. As mentioned earlier in this paper, thenow defunct Biomedical Instrumentation Technology program at STCC as originally conceivedin the early 1970s was “parts centric”. During that era, the unambiguous, part/component centricaspect of the technology dictated how the technicians in this field were educated. However, sincethe early 1970s Moore’s Law has been hard at work and the ball game has changed (see Figure 1below). Figure 1 – A depiction of Moore’s Law from 1970 to 2020Over time, as could be predicted from Moore’s Law, electronic systems have evolved from