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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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, Texas was one of five majorityminority states11. These partnerships increase educational opportunities and support efforts toproduce engineers reflective of the community. This paper shares the challenges and successeslearned during the first three years of the program and the planned expansion to further recruit,retain, and graduate a more diverse engineering demographic through a pathway of co-enrollment and partnership with two-year institutions.II. Background of the PartnershipsThe Texas public education system includes 39 public universities, 50 public community collegedistricts with multiple campuses and 75 of the 409 designated Hispanic Serving Institutions(HSIs) in the United States (18.3%)12,13. From 2000 to 2015, the number of

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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5-year STEM strategic plan, community colleges are proposed to play a key role in recruiting and preparing future scientists and engineers, especially among students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. Through a grant from the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Education Grants Program, the STEM Center was established at a community college in Northern California. The STEM Center integrated all STEM student support services within STEM academic study. Through leveraging multiple grants, the STEM Center provides a set of comprehensive student support services, including study groups, tutoring, STEM-specific academic counseling and career exploration, and information on internships and scholarships. The

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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minority institution partner will be added. In the third and final year,the fifth minority institution will be selected and added from among the most deserving andinterested institutions. Through this partnership, called REENERGIZE, it is expected that thetwo-year colleges will develop their own research capabilities in renewable energy based oncollaboration with Texas State (16, 17).Plan of OperationThe purpose of the Re-Energize program is to establish a continuous, year-around creativeresearch and development (R&D) and professional development (PD) ecosystem to empowerinstitutions of higher education who prepare students in engineering and engineering technologyin Central Texas to continue to do so with enhanced and focused knowledge

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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of two themes for the seminars; Energy is the second. Growth seminars focus on academic, professional, and personal development and are tailored for community college students who plan to transfer to a 4-year college/institution to pursue a degree in science or engineering. These seminars are conducted by various faculty members, graduate students, and staff. Examples of presentation topics include: The Journey from Community College to Professional Success (panel); Tailoring your Technical Talk: Skill Building and How to Use PowerPoint; Uncovering the Diversity of Career Paths in the STEM Field (panel); Writing a Scientific Paper: The Outline, Audience, Sections, and Referencing

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Leslie Braniger, Galveston College

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the ability of students to take ownership of their work, to increase students’ability to develop research-based expository and analysis essays, and to increase their exposureto STEM-related issues and careers. This endeavor was prompted by a desire to better meet theeducational needs of our diverse student population within our current constraints. Our studentbody typically consists of 2,400 students each semester. Those students are normally earningtheir associate’s degree or a certificate under one of more than 60 degree plans or are earningcredits prior to transferring to a four-year institution to complete their bachelor’s degree. Ourcollege is also facing the same challenges that other community colleges are currently facing,namely 1

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Pooneh Lari, North Carolina State University; Michelle Hsiang, Research Triangle Institute

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Research Triangle Institute (RTI). RTI isconducting electronic skill inventories during each course, reviewing portfolios of student work,collecting and analyzing contact logs between students and faculty, reviewing recruitment plans,and reviewing curriculum materials from each course. Table 1 shows demographic data from thefirst and second cohorts. Page 11.1029.6 Table 1. Demographic Data from the Cohorts. Gender Male Female Total Cohort 1 3 (33%) 6 (67%) 9 Cohort 2 7 (41

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Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Burton Dorsey, Washington MESA; Elizabeth Apple Meza, University of Washington; Phyllis G. Harvey-Buschel, Washington MESA

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; Atwater, 2005). Also found to be important in previous research arefamily support, especially for Latino students (Amaya & Cole, 2001; Cole & Espinosa, 2008;Russel & Atwater, 2005), undergraduate research opportunities (Kinkead, 2003; Chang,Sharkness, Hurtado & Newman, 2014), and advising to clarify school or career plans (Hurtado,Cabrera, Lin, Arellano & Espinosa, 2009). Students also appear to persist and transfer when theythink of themselves and others (e.g. faculty) recognize them as “science people” (Carlone &Johnson, 2007), and when they consider science as an important part of their self-identity(Chang, et al. 2011; Espinosa, 2011). A welcoming campus racial climate is also important(Hurtado et al. 2007) as is

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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semester developing AI that played against theuser.McLennan College has partnered with Tarleton State University to allow the research course tofully-transfer into that partner university’s degree plan in Engineering Physics, and manystudents have completed design projects to meet those goals. One student created a “Simon”memory game from scratch while another built ham radio repeaters.Pure curiosity has motivated other students. One student designed a graphing calculator app,which in turn required the student to learn Reverse Polish Notation (RPN). Another student,frustrated with the way in which referees were assigned to his soccer club matches, designed anautomated scheduling algorithm, motivating a discussion of P vs NP. Both RPN and P vs NP

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College

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successful that ENTC gained three more grants tocontinue its distance learning development. The trial run validated many of the concerns facultyhad about adapting technical curriculum to this medium but it also brought about solutions. Noteverything went as planned and one unexpected problem in particular caused the department torethink its strategy. This paper will examine the ENTC distance learning model and how itattempts to meet the needs of a two-year engineering technology program and the community itserves. The paper will discuss strengths and limitations of the equipment and software and willprovide critical comment on the course management strategy used. Finally, the paper will discusshow the model was redesigned into what is now a

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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area of study. The responsibilities ofthe student and faculty member were clearly communicated each semester at the first workshop.Awardees signed a Mentoring Agreement at the beginning of each semester and submittedmentoring logs at the end of the semester. T4 STEM scholars and mentors committed to meetingat least every other week for the first six weeks of the semester to make sure the student got offto a good start, and on a monthly basis thereafter. Mentors worked with the students to developand manage an Individual Academic Learning Plan (IALP) which helped the student gauge theamount of time and coursework necessary to complete his/her studies by taking the courses inthe proper sequence.To maintain their scholarship, students were

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Catherine Baker Lipe; Brandon Price

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are to support students’ three-year tenure at the College, and thefourth to support transfer. Achievement Level 1 scholarship is for students who are eligible toenroll in Trigonometry or Pre-calculus at the time of the award and have three-years of study atCañada College before transfer. Achievement Level 2 is for students who are registered inCalculus 1, or higher, at the time of the award, and are within two years of completing theirStudent Educational Plans (SEP) and transferring. Achievement Level 3 is for students who arewithin a year of completing their lower-division study at Cañada. The Transfer scholarship is forstudents who have completed all coursework included in their educational plan and aretransferring at the time of the award

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Indian/AlaskaNatives 0.3%, multi-racial 9.5%, unknown 4.9%.6At Cañada College, the discrepancy in the levels of preparation among different ethnicities ismanifested in student persistence. During a recent planning initiative led by the College President,a cohort study of newly enrolling students at Cañada was performed. Table 1 shows a summaryof one-year and two-year persistence rates of students by ethnicity. Among Hispanic students theone-year persistence rate was 59.4%, and the two-year persistence rate was 28.8%. The one-yearpersistence rate of African American students was 46.7%, and the two-year rate 20%, significantlylower than those of white students whose one-year and two-year persistence rates were 72.5% and54.4%, respectively. Given

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Charlotte B. Forrest

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designed to 1) fill the void created by NSF’s elimination of the preliminaryproposal review process for the ATE program in 2012; 2) address the challenge thatapproximately two-thirds of the nation’s 1,123 community colleges have never received NSFfunding; 3) better manage the rapidly growing number of requests received by ATE centerprincipal investigators and NSF program officers related to grant proposal development andproject management ; and 4) most importantly, develop grant writing and leadership skillsamong STEM faculty members at two-year colleges.The Mentor-Connect project resulted from a comprehensive planning process that involved NSF-ATE principal investigators, NSF-ATE program officers, potential NSF-ATE grantees, theNational Academy

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Shaw, Museum of Science, Boston; Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College

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and integratedpresentation skills into course work for the engineering students. Northern EssexCommunity College worked with a number of the motor designs to explorealternative power generation connected with the wind blade design. The highschool teachers also worked on a variety of projects through out the year.The leadership team re convened in the spring to plan regional seminar series tobe hosted by each of the community colleges. The goal of these seminar serieswas to expand the number of teachers using contextual learning activitiescentered on the power and energy theme, to address theoretical topics. Each ofthe regions presented a slightly different training, though all offered the windblade design and ‘reverse engineering’ challenge

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis, San Antonio College/Alamo Colleges

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Diversity

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to align its engineering program with the engineering programsoffered by the surrounding area four-year institutions [3], [4]. At the same time, this college’sengineering faculty made every effort to provide the highest quality education for our students (5).A previous ASEE paper [6] described a new partnership, called “Re-Energize,” that is expected tohelp several two-year colleges develop their own research capabilities in renewable energy incollaboration with Texas State University.The Re-Energize program plans to establish a creative research and development (R&D) andprofessional development (PD) ecosystem. This ecosystem will empower institutions of highereducation who prepare students in engineering and engineering technology in

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica M. Cortez, Texas A&M University; Teri Kristine Reed, Texas A&M University; P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University; Sylvia E. McMullen, Blinn College; Jackie Perez, Texas A&M University

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students to transfer from a two-year to a four-year institution. For example, the Arizona State and Maricopa Community College Partnership isa two-year STEM program that encourages students to pursue an engineering curriculumhowever these 2-year students are co- enrolled into the University College and not theengineering college. Therefore they do not receive dedicated support or academic advising fromthe engineering college. Research from the National Center for Education statistics hasdemonstrated that community college transfer students most likely to earn a bachelor’s degreeare those students that are enrolled in their major and actively earning credits toward theirmajor.9 This would include receiving program of study planning from people who

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tressa Kay Mikel, University of California, Berkeley; Frank Hoang, University of California, Berkeley; Pedro S. H. Kim, UC Berkeley; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley

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 personality, experiences, skills and values.​  This frame can provide insight into the ways that adult engineering students build their sense of professional identity through multiple modes.   Successful development of an engineering identity is reflected by professional persistence. Work by Lichtenstein et al found that a minority percentage (42%) of seniors definitively planned on  12​pursuing an engineering related career following graduation.​  Undergraduate engineering programs must try to do better to foster engineering identity development so that professional persistence is improved and the workforce is provided a steady stream of capable degreed engineers from a variety of

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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foundation of effectivetransition. The Peer Led Team Learning sessions were an effective way to engage large numbersof students with in-depth course material within a group work environment. While all of theseprograms had positive impacts on transition and retention, Portfolio Tracking and 2+2consortium had the most impact among others. This paper will discuss those program designs,implementation plans, and effectiveness of those programs with program data and analysis. Page 23.251.2IntroductionAs the nation prepares to meet President Obama’s goal of eight million new college graduates by2020, the transfer process - the pathway between community colleges and universities -will takeon an increasingly vital role1. For many four-year

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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” Build prototype Assignment Possible solutions Week-4: Transition from problem domain to solution domain Lecture “Research and Decision making in engineering Evaluate Laboratory Study and select the solution Solution” Assignment The solution evaluations Lecture Test plan design Build robots Week-5: Laboratory Test robots “Build and Test” Write the test report Assignment The building, testing and comparing robots Lecture Become familiar with writing an engineering report Week-6

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Galley, Collin College; Gena S Martin, Collin College; Jeannie Christine Stone, Wylie Independent School District; Becky Hunt, Allen Independent School District; Jean Laswell, Rockwall Independent School District; Lynn Mortensen, Retired Raytheon Company; John W. Sibert, The University of Texas at Dallas

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Council (MTBC). After her time at Baylor University, Martin’s education career began in secondary ed- ucation. Since 2007, she has focused on the critical interface between higher education and secondary education. In 2011, she joined Collin College as the Career and Technical Education Coordinator specif- ically working with technical dual credit students. Recently, after working closely with the department, she joined the Engineering and Technology Department of Collin College assisting students on the high school level, on the college level, and in industry who plan to pursue STEM degrees. Further, through her work with industry on the MTBC STEM Advisory Board, she coordinates key industrial connections for the

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Lemoine, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; James K. Nelson, University of Texas, Tyler; Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington; James Sells, San Jacinto College, Central Campus; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 1987 and now serves as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy. She is responsible for the administration and management of matters related to the Board’s higher education academic planning and policy functions, and she provides leadership on key projects, reports, and studies that cut across divisions of the agency. She has taught at The University of Texas at Austin, and she currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin. Smith serves as the project coordinator for the $1.8 million productivity grant awarded to Texas from Lumina Foundation for Education to plan methods of making the opportunity

Conference Session

Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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, #1060226, and #0856834), we have been able to givescholarships to transfer students to help with their financial support. 4 During the 2012-2013academic year, scholarships were also sponsored through a grant from the ASU Women &Philanthropy group (http://www.asufoundation.org/womenandphilanthropy).Through the AcademicSuccess and Professional Development class, the students receive academic support through theGuaranteed 4.0 Plan.5 The METS Center provides mentoring and tutoring help, as well asinformal counseling.6 We stress academic success in our meetings such as: join two studentorganizations, one in your academic field and in one such as SHPE, SWE, NSBE, or ASISES;visit and get to know the professor of each of your classes; get into a study

Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline Van Ingen-Dunn, Arizona State University

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scheduled meetings. There was no consensus among Page 12.611.6the students on additional workshops that should be held. One student had attended aGuaranteed 4.0 Plan Workshop and found that very useful. What do you like about the Center? Number of Students (n=33) Space to Study 9 Computers 9 Good, Relaxed, Comfortable Atmosphere 8 People: Helpful, Friendly 6 Free

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Sharon Marie Rouse, Mitchell Community College

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and mirrors the decentralized andcomplex nature of education in the United States. Oversight of the process is provided by theCouncil for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the U.S. Department of Education.Among the programmatic accrediting bodies recognized by CHEA are the following: TheAssociation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Accreditation Commissionfor Education in Nursing (ACEN), Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE),National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Planning AccreditationBoard (PAB), and ATMAE, or the Association of Technology, Management, and AppliedEngineering.According to CHEA2 , ATMAE’s scope of accreditation includes associate, baccalaureate, andmaster's

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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, R. H., & Corwyn, R. F. (2002). Socioeconomic Status and Child Development. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 371-399.30 Wells, R. S., & Lynch, C. M. (2012). Delayed College Entry and the Socioeconomic Gap: Examining the Roles of Students Plans, Family Income, Parental Education, and Parental Occupation. The Journal of Higher Education, 83(5), 671-697.31 Inman, W. E., & Mayes, L. (1999). The Importance of Being First: Unique Characteristics of First Generation Community College Students. Community College Review, 26(4), 3-22.32 Horn, L., & Bobbitt, L. (2000). Mapping the Road to College: First Generation Students' Math Track, Planning Strategies, and Context of Support (NCES Publication No. 2000

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Hadsell, Cañada College; Tracy Huang, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Cañada College

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completes the pre-test the MyMathTest program puts together a study plan based on thequestions that they missed. This allows the student to efficiently use their time to brush up onthe concepts that they have forgotten and not spend as much time on concepts that they arecomfortable with. For most students this program is the first time that they are comprehensivelyintroduced to vectors. At Cañada College students would be introduced to vectors at the end oftheir trigonometry course, but unfortunately it is a topic that instructors do not have enough timeto cover well, or at all, so most students see vectors for the first time during the first week oftheir physics course. It is for this reason that group work and activities at the beginning of

Conference Session

Two Year College Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mariano Olmos, El Paso Community College; Tonie Badillo, El Paso Community College

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(CREaTE) in College of Engineering atUTEP in collaboration with the Center for Institutional Evaluation Research and Planning(CIERP) at UTEP.The project has enabled articulation agreements to be established between the partners. Degreeplan checklists, flowcharts, prerequisite tables, and transfer guides are in place for each degreeprogram between EPCC and UTEP. See http://engineering.utep.edu/plaza/circles/degree.htmThe Department of Education provided major support for this partnership project. The goals ofthe project were exceeded in all key areas, and the results have been implemented andinstitutionalized. During the next five years we anticipate seeing growth in the transfer back andforward of our students due to the improvements and

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea K Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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-year institution? I understand the admissions process (e.g., how to apply, when to apply) for the four-year institution(s) 4.02 .831 4.33 .606 I plan to apply to. I understand the requirements (e.g., general eligibility based on prior course enrollment) related 4.14 .608 4.38 .623 to admissions for the four-year institution(s) I plan to apply to.*p=.05;**p=.01; ***p=.000Students’ career interests changed with participants reporting that they were significantly lesslikely pursue a degree specifically in energy efficient electronic science; however participantsmaintained their interest in pursuing an engineering degree. Participants also reported a

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; F. Carroll Dougherty, University of South Alabama

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oral presentations on their topic and plans for the videos. Topics have included:financial aid, library resources, student health center, the recreation center, career services,student organizations on campus, transfer credits, important dates for students to know,parking services, JagSuccess (a new set of university resources to help students succeed) andadvising tips. The videos will be placed on a College of Engineering website as a form ofFAQ’s. The videos take many different forms, depending on the creativity of the students.Career PlanningCareer Services staff are invited to a class to discuss the resources available to studentssearching for co-op jobs, internships and permanent jobs. The staff provide useful handoutsand discuss the

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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in 1968, and is located in Redwood City, California. During the 2012-2013 academic year,the College enrolled 10,271 students, with Hispanic students comprising 45.8% of all full timeequivalent (FTE) enrollments, Caucasians 30.4%, Asians 7.6%, African-Americans 3.7%,American Indian/Alaska Natives 0.3%, Filipinos 3.1%, Pacific Islanders 1.8%, multi-racial 2.9%,unknown 4.5%. 6At Cañada College, the discrepancy in the levels of preparation among different ethnicities ismanifested in student persistence. During a recent planning initiative led by the College President,a cohort study of newly enrolling students at Cañada was performed. Table 1 shows a summaryof one-year and two-year persistence rates of students by ethnicity. Among Hispanic