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Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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currently Department Chairperson and has persistently advocated for the integration of findings from physics and engineering education research with education practice. Page 25.779.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Initiation of an Undergraduate Research Program at a Community CollegeAbstractOur two year college is home to the first (and only to date) MESA Center in Texas. MESA is acomprehensive academic support program that originated in California in 1970. MESA standsfor math, engineering and science achievement, and the program is

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Catherine Baker Lipe, Cañada College

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campus student organizations.Additionally, the Engineering Department has recently been awarded federal grant funds aimedat strengthening its programs. This includes a Minority Science and Engineering ImprovementProgram (MSEIP) grant from the US Department of Education, an Innovations in EngineeringEducation, Curriculum, and Infrastructure ( IEECI) grant from NSF, and a CurriculumImprovement Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant.The Cañada College NSF S-STEM program team recognizes the need to increase therepresentation of students from other disciplines, and plans to involve more faculty from thesedisciplines in future recruitment efforts. As an initial step, two new faculty mentors have beenadded to this

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Martha M. Ellis

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, Page 25.234.3provided they satisfy all other admission requirements of the institution and program. After beingadmitted, the student will follow a specified “completion curriculum” for the baccalaureatedegree that is founded on the body of knowledge obtained in the associate’s degree. To beentitled to pursue the degree completion curriculum after being admitted, the student mustcomplete the prescribed courses with an overall GPA of at least 2.5, and with no grade lowerthan “C.” No further testing or evaluation will be required.The model Associate of Science in Engineering Science curriculum was developed to providestudents with the foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for successful pursuit ofa baccalaureate engineering

Conference Session

Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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such as computer literacy, teamwork, and critical thinking as well asstrong technical competencies in quality and process control, production philosophies includinglean, Just-In-Time, and integrated production systems in order to be successful in their careers.Not enough high school graduates consider an advanced manufacturing career as an option andare not aware of the skills needed to work in this environment. A survey by the NationalAssociation of Manufacturers stated that 80 percent of respondents reported a moderate toserious shortage of qualified job applicants3.It is obvious that the K-12 system does not providestudents with these skills or provide educational experience for them to be familiar withadvanced manufacturing career

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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AC 2012-4348: A LEARNING MODULE USING ENGINEERING DESIGNPROCESS AND LEGACY CYCLE FOR A FRESHMEN-LEVEL ROBOTICCLASSMr. Yan Xu, Del Mar CollegeDr. Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, KingsvilleAllen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Allen Babb is currently an undergraduate senior working towards an B.S. in electrical eEngineering. His work on his senior design topic, the unmanned aerial surveillance device, eventually evolved into the study of the construction and autonomous control of a Quadrotor UAV. Since then, Babb has gained a keen interest in control theory application in embedded systems, as well as a good understanding of fuzzy logic control algorithms and conventional PID controlers.Prof. Mohamed

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi, Bakersfield College; Julio R. Blanco, California State University, Bakersfield

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curricula are developed through extensive CSUB/BC intersegmental faculty to faculty collaboration; • Making dual/cross enrollment a reality rather than a false promise through productive collaboration/seamless alignment; • Establishing structures and mechanisms for continuous improvement of pathway articulation in terms of student learning outcomes; and • Integrating student learning outcomes (SLO) assessment fully into the STEM programs.The joint effort between BC and CSUB to track student progress to retain and graduate them inSTEM is well underway with the participation and support of community partners. Our model ofcollaboration is working and it is offered as an example for others to reproduce.The authors

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Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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program/discipline specific criteria. For decades, technical programsleading to an electrical/electronics technology (ET) or engineering technology (EET) associate’sdegree have tended to follow a cook-book type approach to new curriculum development and/oradoption by focusing on a “parts-centric” approach to the introduction of new technology and the Page 25.1254.2electronic devices that enable it. In fact, the vast majority of these programs, even now, follow afairly standard collection of technical courses1, whose content is oftentimes dictated by the bestselling textbooks on the particular subject matter. To be sure, faculty with industry