Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

ramin Sadeghi, Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT); Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

their training costs to the university. These costs do not include theinternet subscription or purchasing a personal computer or laptop. It is clear that in the future,with any increase in the number of students, the training costs will be reduced. The training cost Page 11.490.7of a term is evaluated and determined at the end of the term. The total annual training costs arecalculated by the university and announced publicly.The fields of study in the virtual university have no limit for enrollment of the students, althoughonly at the beginning, because of the hardware limitations, some fields of study may have a limitfor enrollment. This

Conference Session

Recruiting and Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Richardson, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

MET 2004 pilot freshman learning community had 21 students and the attrition ofthis learning community in the fall of 2005 was 14%. Twelve of these learningcommunity students returned to RIT in the fall of 2005 and 10 stayed in either MET andManufacturing Engineering Technology (MFET) programs which are identical programsin the freshman year. There were a total of 45 MET freshman students in the fall of2004 as they lost a total of 10 students for an attrition rate of 22.22%. One year attritionrates for MET freshman students were 17.02% for 47 students in 2003, 14.63% for 41students in 2002, 14.7% for 34 students in 2001, and 3.22% for 31 students in 2000.A study of this learning community found that two variables, grade point average