Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, identifying each attribute and itscharacteristics, and identifying the excellent and poor quality work using narrative descriptivecriteria. Holistic rubrics and analytical rubrics are both used to measures students understandingof course content. Holistic rubrics provide a choice to state the highest and lowest levels ofperformance combining the descriptors for all attributes and analytical rubrics state the highestand lowest levels of performance using the descriptions for each attribute separately. The use ofrubrics allows the instructor to provide quality feed back to the student along with providingevaluation and reflection opportunities for an instructor as well. The use of rubrics in a technicalprogram will provide accountability and evaluation

Conference Session

Two-Year/Four-Year: From Articulation to Matriculation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

credit in local school districts.The second change was the introduction of a in the Introduction to Engineering course.Promotion of the Program was further enhanced by the creation of a 30 minute “infomercial”about the EDGE Program that was presented for two weeks on the public access TV channel.However, the broadcasting was delayed until the last two weeks of the enrollment period and wedid not expect to see a significant impact on recruitment.This brings us to EDGE VI in 2008. The Program continued with the augmented ConceptualPhysics curriculum and the year around math engagement for qualified students. An updatedversion of the infomercial was broadcast weekly for the entire month of January. Building onthe successful robotics project

Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

realize that continuing rapidchanges in electronic components, technologies, methods, equipment and jobs are the norm butfind it difficult to keep courses and curriculum are in step. Yet, more than ever it is essential thatacademia match industry and the consumer in keeping up with the technology.One way to update and improve the technician-level electronics curriculum is to adopt a systems-oriented rather than a component/circuit analysis approach that most schools still use. Thanks tohigh density integrated circuits, fewer and fewer discrete component circuits are in use today yetmost two-year schools continue to teach the analysis and design of discrete component circuitsthat few technicians actually encounter today. The modern technician