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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Two Year College Division

of a university professor and a graduate student mentor. Developed through a grantfunded by the NASA Curriculum Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration ofResearch (CIPAIR) program, the summer internship program integrates research with curriculumimprovements by providing the framework for students to use their research experiences todevelop instructional materials to improve the engineering curriculum. The paper highlights theresults of the research done by the mechanical engineering student group who helped develop anovel haptic apparatus and associated curriculum for teaching upper division mechanicalengineering laboratory courses in control systems, mechatronics, and haptics. Over the ten-weekprogram the group made significant

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

research that is identified as two thesis courses. The program blends the technicalskills, advanced technology, and STEM together, and can be completed in three years. The sizeof the first graduating class will be 12 students selected from area technical colleges. Instructorswill be provided the opportunity to use the faculty expertise and laboratories to improve theirtechnical skills or learn new skills related to advanced technologies.Finally instructors will be required to select a research topic related to their teaching field andwill write curriculum and design laboratory activities under supervision of graduate programadvisor and committee. The instructors will be required to share their project with theircolleagues at their institution.The

Conference Session

An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Laier, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama

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Two Year College Division

seminar also emphasizes using engineering tools such as free body diagrams, simplesketches, thermodynamic pressure volume (p-v) and temperature volume (t-v) diagrams, andExcel spreadsheets for data analysis. The students gain experience with collecting andanalyzing laboratory data, as well as how to present and report the results. Additional detailsof the Seminar were presented at the ASEE 2013 conference and can be found in the ASEEpaper.3Community Building ModelAn important aspect of an education at a community college is small class size, whichfacilitates the formation of study groups among students, who are generally enrolled in thesame classes. In addition they have immediate access to faculty. When these students transfer

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Institute of Behavioral Science; Sandra Janette Mikolaski

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Two Year College Division

a Senior Research Associate at the Evaluation Center (Western Michigan University) and served for six years as Coordinator for the Social Science Research Center’s Evaluation & Decision Support Laboratory (Mississippi State University). Dr. Ritchie has extensive experience in all aspects of evaluation and research design and implementation. She has served as PI or co-PI on more than 70 projects and authored or coauthored more than 70 technical reports, as well as published in peer reviewed journals.Dr. Sandra Janette Mikolaski Page 24.844.1 c American Society for

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Hull P.E., OP-TEC; Chrysanthos Andreas Panayiotou, Indian River State College

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Two Year College Division

and department chair of the electronics and electrical power technology programs at Indian River State College and Brevard Community Col- lege where he created new courses and programs, updated curricula, and increased enrollment to full capacity. Chrysanthos authored two textbooks and six laboratory manuals in the areas of analog and digital electronics, and schematic capture and printed circuit board layout. Panayiotou started his career in industrial controls and automation and then transitioned to the telecommunications industry where he designed VHF and UHF networks. Panayiotou received his undergraduate electrical engineering degree from Higher Technical Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus. With the support from a

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Hull P.E., OP-TEC; Greg Kepner M. Ed., Indian Hills Community College

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Two Year College Division

pursue.Dual-credit courses provide several advantages for the institution and the student. • For the high school, dual-credit courses eliminate the need to design/develop new courses, and may offer the opportunity to use faculty and laboratories of the articulating college. • Dual-credit courses offer the students the opportunity to “enter the postsecondary program while they are in high school” which reinforces the career opportunity, eases the anxiety of entering higher education and, most of all provides them postsecondary credits which shortens their time required for Associate degree pursuits and saves a considerable amount of the cost of their college education

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Two Year College Division

improve the self-efficacy of community college students as it relates to research andwhether this has an impact on their long-term career plans to pursue a STEM career.Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experiences for Undergraduates ProgramIn 2011, the University of California, Berkeley developed the Transfer-to-Excellence ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates program (TTE REU), a summer research program forcommunity college students that is catalyzed by early hands-on involvement in research projectsthat apply nanotechnology and biotechnology to address energy problems in a high caliberresearch environment. The program objectives are to: 1) provide challenging science andengineering research projects in leading edge research laboratories; 2