Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David I. Spang, Burlington County College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

conversions Ethics and professionalism Programmable logic controllers Problem solving skills Project management Teamwork and conflict resolution skills Safety and hazardous material handling Written and oral communication Statistical analysis Understanding of specifications and technical documentsWith the results of the one-day planning conference, a week-long summer workshop with multi-disciplined (technical and non-technical) and multi-segmented (secondary, two-year college andfour-year college) faculty and administrators was held to examine the current curriculum interms of alignment with the identified technical and non-technical skill

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

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Geometric Laser System Optical Devices Optics FundamentalsFresh 1 Science Introduction to Introduction to Laser Elective Solidworks Photonics Components12th College English Elective/ Ethics/ Physics Introduction to Photonics Digital ElectronicsGrade Algebra Workplace Government Computers Concepts Communications Physical Power Transfer

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Leslie Braniger, Galveston College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

toseveral topics by the faculty at the start of the semester, and they were encouraged to select atopic that was relevant to themselves, their families, or just of great interest. Some of theproposed topics centered on maintaining the ecosystem and tourism of our island, meeting theneeds of a population facing drought conditions, and maintaining a balance between refineryplants and the communities that surround them. Unlike the traditional composition course,students also discussed sustainability ethics in order to better understand some of the argumentsthey would come across in the articles they were gathering. Additionally, the size of the classallowed time to show videos that pertained to the students’ specific research topic. Like