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Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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undergraduate research projects related to greentechnologies for the entire duration of this partnership. Our college made a commitment to 1) encourage our STEM faculty to attend Re-Energize professional development opportunities to learn and include green energy educational modules into our STEM curriculum; 2) seek space to establish a "start-up green lab" on our campus with Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program 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 as we include our William R. Sinkin Eco Centro

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Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Edem G Tetteh, Rowan College at Burlington County

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southern New Jersey. Acomprehensive list of technical and non-technical competencies was developed, and theidentified competencies were introduced or emphasized throughout the academic program.Additionally, in June of 2015, the Workforce Development Institute (WDI) of RCBC held anAdvanced Manufacturing Forum with focus groups for regional fabricated metal, machinery, andelectrical equipment manufacturers and conducted an online survey afterward. Four consistentthemes of the focus groups were: 1) the need for employable skills, 2) the need for amanufacturing program, 3) the need to address public misconceptions about the manufacturingindustry, and 4) employer interest in developing work-based learning experiences to engageyoung adults.The findings

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Two-year College Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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questionsin each area. It asked students to report on, 1. Future academic and career intentions; 2.Self-efficacy/motivation in STEM courses; 3. Interest in and perception of STEMmajors/careers; 3. Level and type of participation in MCCP; 4. Academic preparation in highschool; 5. Student demographics. Surveys were collected through email via a secure survey response system housedat the University of Washington. To boost response rates, paper surveys were also available inMESA centers. The paper and email surveys were combined for analysis. Survey respondentsincluded students at all six colleges in Washington state and the two colleges in California. Atotal of 155 completed surveys were collected, which represents about 15-20% of the

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Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth W. Schott, Florida SouthWestern State College; Cynthia Jane Wilson Orndoff Esq., Florida SouthWestern State College

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smaller class size that provides additional educational support. Most of these studentsstart their education program by enrolling in an Associate of Arts (AA) degree. These programs,however, often are not specifically designed to transfer into an engineering Bachelor of Sciencedegree program.According to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, out of a total of 126 occupationslisted for 2024 growth projection, 16% of the top 25 are engineering [1]. Of the total occupationsrequiring a bachelor's degree, 13% are in engineering [1]. Those employed with a bachelor'sdegree in engineering comprise 23% of the top one-half of the median average and 13% of thetop quarter median wage earners [1]. Thus, engineering is one of the highest paying and

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Two-year College Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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communicationsnetwork to implement the diagnostic system and coordinate the operations of the various controlsystems arose. The result was the initial OBD (on-board diagnostic) system and the venerableCAN (controller area network) bus. About the same time as these innovations, vehicle safetybecame an international concern and eventually safety legislation in the United States mandatedthe use of front airbags in all passenger cars and light trucks built after September 1, 19981. Thissafety innovation was achieved through the use of a sophisticated electronic crash sensor and theairbag electronic control unit. This particular use of electronics signaled the start of the era of“passive” or “passive reactive” passenger safety protection. That is, providing some

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Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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enhancing the academic success of community college engineering students andstrengthening community college engineering transfer programs.1. IntroductionDespite years of investments and resources devoted by the federal government and institutions ofhigher education towards broadening participation of underrepresented minorities (URMs) inscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers, significant progress has not beenachieved. For instance, since 2000, underrepresented minorities’ shares in engineering andphysical science degrees have been flat despite a rapid increase in their representation of theoverall US population. In fact, even though URMs currently constitute 30 percent of the USpopulation, they account for only about 12.5 percent

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Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul B Golter, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Jeffrey Laube, Kenai Peninsula College

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to be able to correct the process toward normal operation. Thedifferences in these two broad outcomes lead to differences in emphasis and approach toteaching similar topics.Our ATE project involves adapting novel in-classroom laboratory equipment and activitiesdeveloped for teaching engineering to teaching process technology. The equipment beingadapted consists of very low-cost models of common industrial equipment [1-5]. These are itemslike heat exchangers and pipes which are common to both process technology and manybranches of engineering. The emphases are different however, process technology or PTECprograms are concerned with ensuring that students understand normal behavior and how someof the phenomena can be used to cross-check

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Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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further internships, transfer preparedness, teamwork ability, and senseof self-efficacy.1. IntroductionDespite years of investments and resources devoted by the federal government and institutions ofhigher education towards broadening participation of underrepresented minorities (URMs) inscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers, significant progress has not beenachieved. For instance, since 2000, underrepresented minorities’ shares in engineering andphysical science degrees have been flat despite a rapid increase in their representation of theoverall US population. In fact, even though URMs currently constitute 30 percent of the USpopulation, they account for only about 12.5 percent of baccalaureate degrees awarded inengineering1

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Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten A Davis, Virginia Tech; Andrea M. Ogilvie P.E., Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech

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effective, efficient, and inclusive. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Easing Engineering Transfer Students’ Transitions: Recommendations from Students Who Successfully Navigated the Transfer PathwayI. Introduction In 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology documented theneed to prepare more than 1 million additional STEM professionals in the U.S. workforce overthe next decade. To meet this demand, leveraging the transfer pathway between two-year andfour year institutions is an approach that has garnered increased interest. In addition to adoptingguided pathways model to move students logistically from one

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William B. Corley, University of Louisville; J C McNeil, University of Louisville

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statistical information related to two research questions:(1) What is the prevalence of nontraditional characteristics in engineering students? and (2)What is the prevalence of the different levels of nontraditional characteristics (i.e., minimal,moderate, or high) in engineering?The nontraditional student characteristic data was collected through an online survey createdusing Qualtrics. The survey was administered to students via an Internet link, through Qualtrics,to potential participants during the first week of classes in the fall semester of 2016 in anintroductory engineering course for freshman and transfer students in their first semester oncampus. There were 640 students enrolled in the fall introduction to engineering course during2016

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Two-year College Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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with the STEP 1B Engineering Grant hadspecific objectives supporting these goals. They were: (1) develop and maintain an effectiveliaison between BRCC and LSU; (2) utilize scholars in a peer ambassador program facilitatingtransfer success; (3) establish a pre-transfer academic counseling program; (4) expand existingseminars to orient and integrate BRCC and other transfer students into LSU and (5) invite BRCCmath, science and engineering faculty to participate in ongoing Faculty Development.Activities of the program included outreach, professional development, advising, and developingan overall assessment tool. All scholars participated in outreach activities that consisted of Peer-to-Peer talks at BRCC each semester and Shadow Days at LSU for

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Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Figure 1: Course Overview of the Mechatronics Certificatestudents during the Fall 2015 semester (Figure 1). The number of students initially majoring inthe program was around five, and several classes benefited from strong enrollment due to theirinclusion in other degree programs on campus. For example, Circuit Fundamentals I had a totalof 17 students enrolled during its initial offering due to its inclusion as an option within the waterresource management program. This benefit of including courses across other degree programswas even more pronounced the following year, when two sections of Basic Process Control wererequired to support an enrollment of 37 students, again due to the course’s inclusion in the waterresource management program. This

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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outcomes.IntroductionThe United States is facing a severe deficit of scientists and engineers in the upcoming decades.This is because students attracted these majors are primarily male and come from non-Hispanicwhite or Asian populations. The need for appealing to and retaining students coming fromnon- traditional backgrounds has intensified given the shifts in the U.S. populationdemographics. Nationally, students enrolled in science and engineering bachelor programs in2013 comprised of, approximately 19% women, 5% African American/Black, and 11%Hispanic.1 Currently the US population is 17% Hispanic and 14% African American/Black, butprojections show that both of these populations will grow by 2060, expecting to beapproximately 29% Hispanic and 18% African

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Two-year College Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos; Eusebio Mata, LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research; Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University

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, findings indicate that students’ attitude and concerns are influenced positivelyand follow-up data collection will confirm what academic and career choices these studentsmake.Introduction According to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 2012report, predictions of the lack of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)graduates will lead to a workforce shortage of one million individuals in the STEM field [1].Data collected from 2004 through 2009 show unsettling results: enrollment of students seeking abachelor’s degree in the STEM fields was about 28 percent of the total in the whole U.S. [2]. Notonly are enrollment rates in STEM majors a big problem, student retention rates for STEMmajors are low, at