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In Their Own Words: The Community College Experience toward an Engineering Baccalaureate Degree

Conference Session
Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Holistic Students
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joan Z. Carter, Inver Hills Community College
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Diversity
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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)
programs was $5,665 [24] or approximately one-third thecost of the University of Minnesota.F. Engineering Pathway“Community Colleges play a key role in preparing Americans to enter the workforce withassociate’s degrees or certificates or to transition to four-year educational institutions” [2].Nearly half (47%) of all U. S. students who earned bachelor’s degrees in science andengineering between 2010 and 2017 did some coursework at a community college, and 18%earned associate degrees [2]. Students can take the first two years of a four-year engineeringdegree at a community college, and then transfer to and graduate from a four-year engineeringprogram. This is considered the community college pathway toward a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in
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Board 35: Assessing Students' Perspectives and Attitudes Toward Social Justice and Compassion in Civil Engineering (Work in Progress)

Conference Session
Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Maria Santagata, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); David J. Yu
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Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)
of engineering as learning outcomes in civilengineering coursework requires, as a first step, the development of a baseline understanding ofcivil engineering undergraduate and graduate students' awareness of social justice, theirperception of social justice, and their previous experiences with social justice-related educationalcontent. Contributing to the development of this baseline knowledge is the objective of thispaper. We conducted a survey to assess the awareness of these students towards social justice,their conception of social justice, and their previous educational experiences with social justicecontent in an academic setting. In addition, we recognize that social justice is related toquestioning and changing the structures of
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