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Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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study and program completions activity by the National Center forEducation Statistics, which is located within the Department of Education and Institute ofEducation Sciences. The codes are used to characterize data on student majors, degrees granted,courses taught, and can be used to crosswalk academic preparation with related occupations.Every CIP Code is comprised of a 6-digit number—ie 15.0612—where: Digits 1-2 indicate a broad area—ie 15 refers to all engineering technologies and engineering related fields of study. That is, all instructional programs that prepare individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineering and related projects or engineering-related fields

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Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College

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these resources, and overallsatisfaction with the course.1. IntroductionFor the past 5 years, the Joint Engineering Program (JEP) at Cañada College has provided agroup of participating California community college faculty a framework for sharing onlineteaching techniques and curricula designed to be delivered via streaming webcast from theclassroom. Participating faculty are trained in the use of tablet-enabled notebook computersduring the Summer Engineering Teaching Institute (also at Cañada College), and a key elementto the success of this program is the sharing of presentation materials that are annotated duringlecture as if on a virtual whiteboard. The approach requires no post-processing by faculty, andallows remote students to ask

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Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Il (Johnny) Yoon, Northern Essex Community College

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. Instead of a finalexam, a final presentation of Auto_Oil_ID is made by each team. The final presentation is donein PowerPoint with students encouraged to include video of their projects in action.EST104 Schedule of topics for fall 2015  Week 1-3 EXCEL with applications to Ohm’s Law and the Speed of Sound in air; designing an ultrasonic range finder.  Week 4 Flowcharting and Procedural Programming  Week 5-8 MATLAB – Programming a Stepper Motor in MATLAB  Week 9-11 Spectroscopic ID of colored filters using a spectrometer and MATLAB  Week 12 Spectroscopic ID of oils using visible light, a spectrometer, and MATLAB  Week 13-14 Combining positioning by stepper-motor rotor with spectroscopic ID of oils

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Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Chitra N. Javdekar, Massachusetts Bay Community College; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Marina Bograd

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(2004), Boston East Pipeline Network; and Alumni, Lead Boston 2004 (The National Conference for Community and Justice). She won the 2006 Northeastern University Aspiration Award, and was recognized at the 2003 Northeastern University Reception honoring Principal Investigators that obtained funding in excess of $1 million over a five-year period.Marina Bograd c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016TRANSFORM: TRANSFORMing liberal arts careers to meet demand for advanced manufacturing workforceAbstractIt is well recognized that a liberal arts degree (BA) equips graduates with many essential skillscited as critical for the current and future workforce. These include but are not

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Gordon, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Phillip M Brown, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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for retention of incoming transfer students.In recent years, many studies have been published regarding the performance of transferstudents. These studies focused mostly on advising, retention, and graduation 1, 2, 3, 4; and somestudies explored the hypothesis that transfer students experience lower retention and graduationrates than non-transfer students 5, 6, 7. However, the authors could not find literature on paststudies related to the determination of critical admission criteria for transfer students toengineering programs.School profileA short description of the School’s demographics is useful here to highlight the share of transferstudents in the overall enrollment. The School has seven B.S. programs, five M.S. programs, anda doctoral

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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, theeffectiveness of the course resources, their use of these resources, and their overall satisfactionwith the course.1. IntroductionThe 2012 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report, “Engageto Excel” indicates that the United States needs to produce one million additional STEMprofessionals in the next decade in order to retain its historical preeminence in science andtechnology. To meet this need, the number of undergraduate STEM degrees will have to increaseby about 34 percent annually over the current rates. The PCAST report proposes that addressingthe retention problem in the first two years of college is the most promising and cost-effectivestrategy to address this need1. The California Community College System, with

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Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kapil Chalil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University; Jeff Bertrand; Rebecca S Hartley, Clemson University Center for Workforce Development

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environment developed using the Open edX codebase. Virtualreality systems are becoming more frequently used in educational settings primarily because oftheir ability to provide visualization and interaction within an environment that closely resemblesa real-world setting. Both text-based and VR-based case studies were integrated into an onlinecourse on workplace safety. The online courses consisted of multiple short video-based lectureswith assessments after each. Using a between-subjects experimental design, 109 communitycollege students were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1) an online course withintegrated case studies presented as text and images; (2) an online course with integrated casestudies presented as virtual reality content

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Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring, Canada College

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Education program (NSF IUSE), three community colleges from NorthernCalifornia collaborated to increase the availability and accessibility of the engineeringcurriculum by developing resources and teaching strategies to enable small-to-medium sizedcommunity college engineering programs to support a comprehensive set of lower-divisionengineering courses. These resources were developed for use in a variety of delivery formats(e.g., fully online, online/hybrid, flipped face-to-face, etc.), providing flexibility for localcommunity colleges to leverage according to their individual needs. This paper focuses on thedevelopment and testing of the resources for an introductory Materials Science course with 3-unit lecture and 1-unit laboratory components

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Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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engineering and technology needs, a more diverse pool of students mustbe attracted to major in science and engineering.To address this problem, a push has been made to recruit students from community colleges totransfer into a bachelor program, majoring in STEM. Community colleges have a diversepopulation to pull from, 57% are women, 14% are African American/Black and 16- 20% areHispanic.2,4 The national transfer rate in 4-6 years for students enrolling in community collegewith the intention to transfer to a bachelor program is between 25-39% and efforts are needed toincrease this transfer rate.4Past studies on increasing the diversity of engineering have focused on social cognitive careertheory.1 Within this framework, researchers have examined the

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Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas P Langhoff, Skyline College; Eva Schiorring; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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materials in a regular face-to-face course which will beused to inform subsequent on-line delivery. Additionally, student surveys and interviewsare used to assess students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the course resources, alongwith their sense of self-efficacy and identity as aspiring engineers.1. IntroductionEfforts to remain competitive internationally in engineering and technology require asignificant increase in the number of STEM graduates in the United States. A recentreport prepared by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology statesthat currently less than forty percent of students entering college to pursue a STEM careerend up completing a STEM degree, citing that students typically leave the STEM field inthe

Conference Session

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric James Davishahl, Everett Community College; Xiaopeng Bi, Washington State University

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communitycollege with intent to transfer to a four year university to complete their Bachelor of Sciencedegree.1 Community colleges play a substantial role in the production of engineering graduatesin Washington State. Several community colleges throughout the state offer comprehensiveengineering transfer programs that include all the courses necessary for students to transfer atjunior level in most engineering majors. Transfer students who completed their prerequisitecourse work at a community college make up approximately one third and one quarter ofengineering graduates at the main campuses of Washington State University in Pullman andUniversity of Washington in Seattle respectively. More broadly 36% of 2014 college graduatesin Washington had completed

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline College; Tessa Alice Olmstead, Highline College; Judy Mannard PE, Highline Community College

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self-reported their race and/or ethnicity, 65% identified as being students of color, as shown inTable 1. This suggests a racially and ethnically diverse demographic. In addition to racial andethnic diversity, our engineering students are culturally diverse. Collectively, a class ofIntroduction to Engineering students can be expected to speak nearly 20 different languagesfluently, with greater than two out of three students being multilingual.In addition, many of our students were enrolled in a dual degree program where they have theopportunity to take college credit classes as junior or senior high school students. 26% of ourstudents were considered to be high school students attending college. On the other hand, 16%of our students were non

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Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County; Kathryn E. Strang, Rowan College at Burlington County

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(RCBC), much attention isgiven to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education requirements around bothinstitutional and educational assessment. Guidance is given by Middle States through Standard 7(Institutional Assessment) and Standard 14 (Assessment of Student Learning) in the obsolete„Characteristics of Excellence‟, now being phased out as transition to a new set of standardsoccurs. The new standards contain a strong focus on assessment as well through Standard V(Educational Effectiveness Assessment), a condensed summary of which is presented in Table I1.Table I. Middle States New Standard V. Educational Effectiveness AssessmentNew Standard V. Condensed SummaryEducationalEffectivenessAssessment 1

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); James E Moon, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Mike Eastman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Daniel P Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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of both publicand private institutions have focused on transfer students to expand and diversify their studentpopulations in engineering and engineering technology programs2-8.The TiPi project is a collaborative effort of five academic departments from two colleges, theEnrollment Management and Career Services Division, and the Office of Financial Aid andScholarships. Table 1 lists the departments and their offerings. Table 1: Participating Colleges, Academic Departments, and ProgramsCollege* Academic Department BS Program in Civil Engineering Technology and Civil Engineering TechnologyCAST Environmental Management and Safety (CET-EMS

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Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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. The lab consists of hands-on exercises that providethe student with the opportunity to program the hardware to perform some simple useful controlfunction(s) and to make projects that can be controlled through the Internet. To implement thecourse the faculty choose to use low-cost universally available hardware that is available from avariety of online sources. The microprocessor platform utilized is the Raspberry Pi and theassociated open-source microcontroller platform is the Arduino Uno. The Arduino Uno shown inFigure 1 below has been around for some time and has been cloned by numerous vendors. Due toits longevity, there are many accessories (known as shields) available from the same vendors. Aquick search of Amazon.com will provide one

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Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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fellow Hispanic-Serving Institutions, our college made a commitment to 1) Encourage our STEM faculty to attend Re-Energize professional development opportunities to learn and adopt green energy educational modules into our STEM curriculum over the next three years 2) Seek space to establish a "start-up green lab" on our campus with MSEIP pass through funding from the four-year institution so that faculty can conduct classroom demonstrations and our students can perform undergraduate research. This initiative is meant to diversify and continue our undergraduate research program and include our EcoCentro facility into this program 3) Promote additional related outreach and educational Re-Energize efforts to

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Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Marbella Camacho, Cañada College; Denise Hum, Cañada College

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for academic success.1. IntroductionWith the increasing demand for a skilled and technically savvy workforce in the United States,addressing retention problems in the first two years of college is a promising and cost-effectivestrategy to address this need. A recent Committee on STEM Education National Science andTechnology Council report Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics(STEM) Education 5-Year Strategic Plan indicates that the United States needs make STEMeducation a priority. To achieve that goal, the Department of Education has committed $4.3billion to encourage states to develop “comprehensive strategies to improve achievement andprovide rigorous curricula in STEM subjects; partner with local STEM institutions

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin Kelly Frady; Rebecca S Hartley, Clemson University Center for Workforce Development; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Hope Epps Rivers, South Carolina Technical College System; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Stephanie Denise Frazier, South Carolina Technical College System

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limited number of seats for each session that will be available on a first- come, first-serve basis. • Day Two consists of a series of curriculum-based sessions for all participants on topics related to student learning, student engagement, classroom management, and teaching techniques.Table 1. Faculty Institute Participant Profile42% 1-5 years of teaching62% Teach online courses1 Adjunct78% Interested in academic leadership100% Interested in learning new technology Feedback from these programs has been overwhelmingly positive with evaluationsrevealing comments such as, “This was a great experience! I was exposed to new ideas andtechnologies that will help me be a better instructor” and

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Two-Year College Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill Davishahl, Bellingham Technical College; Joel N. Swisher, Western Washington University

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economy is composedof industries and businesses engaged in four core areas: increasing energy efficiency, producingrenewable energy, preventing and reducing environmental pollution, and providing mitigation orcleanup up of environmental pollution.Table 1: Estimated Percent of Industry core area green jobs core area Preventing and reducing pollution 59,288 49.3% Increasing energy efficiency 38,920 32.4% Providing mitigation or cleanup of environmental pollution 16,887 14.0% Producing

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Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicolas N Brown, University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering; Joy Velarde, University of Utah; Debra J Mascaro, University of Utah

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transitioning from a two-year to a four-year institution. In general, the top three reasonsstudents leave an engineering-based discipline are: (1) a perceived lack of belonging in theprogram, (2) issues related to difficulty of curriculum and (3) poor teaching or advising.1 Theseissues are often exacerbated in the transfer process as transfer students adjust to their newacademic environment and begin taking advanced engineering courses.2Engineering transfer students typically transfer from a community college or state college to theuniversity level in the third year of the program. Nationally, and among all disciplines, only 42%of transfer students go on to complete a bachelor’s degree. For STEM transfer students with anassociate’s degree, only 32% go

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Mark Norman Highum, Bay College

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learning the basics of how to program robotic arms. More detailed informationon each element of this project is contained in the following sections.MechatronicsAccording to a Manpower Group survey of nearly 42,000 employers across 42 countries,technicians, production operators, and engineers are both listed among the top ten jobs that arecurrently the most difficult to fill on a global scale5. Within the Americas specifically, each ofthese positions are also listed among the top ten, with the notable addition of skilled tradesworkers coming in at the #1 most difficult position to fill5. Furthermore, a 2015 report by theAssociation for Talent Development found that employers spent an average of $1,229 peremployee on training in 20141, while the

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Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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. Results and Successes of the PartnershipsIn fall 2013, a total of 113 students enrolled in the Texas A&M engineering co-enrollmentprogram known as TEAM-E (See Table 1). The Texas A&M University Office of Admissionsidentified academically talented freshman applicants who, due to capacity, could not be offered aspace in the CoE taking all their courses on the Texas A&M University campus. These studentswere offered an alternative admission that provided enrollment in general studies at Texas A&MUniversity with access to engineering courses previously reserved for students with fulladmission to the CoE. Admission required the students to be co-enrolled with Blinn College-Bryan. Additional components of the co-enrollment model included

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Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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 undergraduate engineering degree, and in this study are limited to students age 25 and older. The presence of adult students enriches undergraduate engineering programs because their added life experience allows them to approach their studies with unique perspectives, motivations, and strategies compared to their  1​younger peers.​  Because of the added challenges that adult students face, their presence in undergraduate programs must be supported to improve retention of this valuable group of  2​students.​  Prior studies have shown that identifying with engineering is linked to both  3​educational and professional persistence.​  Our research focuses on the development of engineering

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Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College

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facilitate moreoff-campus study and reduced out-of-pocket expenses for transportation and childcare forstudents who otherwise would be required to return to the college to use computers.S-STEM, Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (formerlyCSEMS, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships) is a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funding program that supports scholarships. The S-STEM program, like theNSF-funded CSEMS program that preceded it, “seeks to increase the success of low incomeacademically talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing associate,baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM)”1 The S-STEM program is funded by H-1B

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Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University

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in a Community College (CC).1 Themajority of Native Americans (62%), Hispanics 57%), Blacks (52%), and women (57%)undergraduate students are enrolled in CCs.1 Our research and experience has shown that CCstudents need to be exposed to engineering and computer science through CC faculty and guestspeakers or role models, as well as informed advisors. The non-metropolitan CC often has only asmall engineering/computer science program and is often overlooked by larger schools as arecruitment site. An additional challenge is that the non-metropolitan CC is often many milesaway from the college or university seeking to partner with them. Day trips to visit a remoteschool mean long hours travelling and also mean that it is difficult to take the