technologycoursework. Student success depends on their ability to demonstrate mastery through allcoursework required in degree plan. Table 1 delineates earned credit hours for each course in Page 15.1090.2this degree plan (Northwestern Michigan College, 2009 degree plan). The degree plan consistsof 64 total credit hours to include 18 credit hours of drafting and design, 6 credit hours of manualmachining, 6 credit hours of CNC and CAM, and 12 hours of other related technical courses.The remaining 22 credit hours are allotted to general education coursework (Table 1). Associate in Applied Science Degree (A.A.S
implications. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 28, 331 – 351. Page 26.289.8 APPENDIX A SECTION 1 In this section, you will be asked to think back to when you were about to transfer to LSU. Specifically, what were your concerns regarding the potential hurdles you were going to face? 1. Did you expect to face any ACADEMIC hurdles? a. If so, please describe them: b. How did you plan to overcome the hurdles? c. Did you actually experience these hurdles in your first year? d. If so, how did you overcome them
- Communicate effectively through speaking, listening, and writing. Critical Thinking - Use critical thinking to analyze and solve problems. Technical Skills - Demonstrate knowledge and competence in academic and technical fields of study. Teamwork - Demonstrate positive, effective, and appropriate interpersonal skills.The integration of these Workforce Skills also resulted in a more comprehensive approach toassessment. This program requires multiple individual and team projects in the laboratorysegment, and design projects for the classroom segment of courses within the major. Rubricswere developed for all individual and group projects. As part of the effort to integrateWorkforce Skills, written plans, post-project analysis
previously received funding from the NSF/ATEprogram. Through this pilot project funded by NSF, community colleges collaborated withexperienced ATE Center and project directors to identify and develop plans that will enhanceeach college or region’s ability to provide science and engineering technician education,leveraging the work currently in progress through WIRED activities and funding or otherNSF/ATE funding. Mentors have guided community college participants in addressing allaspects of project development, from identifying the intellectual merit and broader impacts of theproject to developing evaluation, measurable outcomes, and dissemination plans. ATE Mentorshelped ensure that participants had the necessary information about the ATE program to
Department of Industrial Technology is providing the needed support and educationalmaterials and graduate students support for both STC and South Texas technical colleges toassist them with this task. This include faculty training, updated software, online training,resources needed to train qualified manufacturing technicians, and recruiting and promotingadvanced manufacturing careers as an attractive option to high school seniors. Page 25.727.3 Total College Technical College City Degrees Offered Degree Plan
point it is important present objectives for students1 Develop a plan to build your wealth2 Prepare a Budget3 Try to save $10 per week4 Do not purchase anything on credit that you cannot pay for at the end of the month5 If you don’t have enough earnings than limit you’re spendingIf you are able to save $10 per week then in one year you will have $520 and in ten years$5200!How can you limit your spending? When you shop for food in a store ask if they have a card tosave money. Here are some examples of stores that have discount cards: Stop & Shop,Waldbaum’s, Duane Reade, Pathmark, Winn Dixie to name a few. If they do, fill out anapplication and use the card when making purchases. When you go into the store, ask if there isa circular and read
mission and goals. Most recently her responsibilities included serving on the PRR steering committee for Standards 7 & 14 and the Co-Chair for Standard 14, working as a lead on ABET accreditation, chairing the general education committee for the college, and overseeing all assessments and institutional effectiveness plans. At the 2015 Drexel University assessment confer- ence: Assessment for Student Success - Building Academic Innovation & Renewal, Kathryn authored and conducted the presentation, Utilizing & Linking Academic Assessment Outcomes to Strategic Planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Student Outcomes Assessment Methodology for Technology
jointly with the S-STEP advisory board, and theemphasis has been on providing updates for both programs, the progress of incorporatingcomponents of each project into a comprehensive and coordinated plan, and the academicsupport of the STEP project via supplemental instructions. One of the primary recommendationsto both programs was to collect and analyze the academic outcomes of participants in theprograms.CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PLANSOverall, the Pathway Scholar Program is rated very highly by current students, and the programis delivering on its promise of supporting the students financially so they can focus more on theireducation, and connecting the students with others in their field to promote networking.Additionally, the Pathway Scholars
community colleges.5 This studywarns that there is not just one magic cure for student success but an accumulation of events andexperiences that will affect the success of a student. The 13 promising practices (which arereally not new) fall in the three areas of Planning Success, Initiating Success, and SustainingSuccess.5 Page 25.413.2Many CC students are undecided in their career choice. Of 61 university transfer students in anengineering scholarship program in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), 19 (31%) did not know what they wanted to major in and this influenced theirdecision to go to a community college
begun between the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity and five community colleges belonging to the Maricopa County Community CollegeDistrict. Funded by a joint grant from the National Science Foundation, each with their ownbudget, the collaborators set out to develop a program that would interest and supportcommunity college students in engineering, ease their transition to a large university, andcontinue to support them after the transfer, especially for the first year. The program also wasdesigned to especially encourage and support women and underrepresented minority students.The program is called METS: Maricopa Engineering Transition Scholars. Most of the plans forthe project as proposed have been successful, including a
and motivated by NCState’s strategic plan to expand the proportion of transfer students, the College of Engineeringteamed with the College of Education at NC State. We established initiatives aimed directly atNC CC’s and their communities: 1) to disseminate accurate information regarding engineering atNC State and 2) to develop a valuable network of higher education institutions in North Carolina.In addition to promoting the transfer of high quality students into engineering at NC State, ourgoal was to improve their retention and performance. In this paper, we detail the strategies weemployed to achieve these goals, including programming and publications created by the Collegeof Engineering, targeted solely to NC CC students and advisors. We
keysuccess factors that include: peer mentoring, an engineering orientation course hosted atDMACC’s –Ankeny campus, expansion of ISU’s newly launched Admissions PartnershipProgram (APP), and development of a social network. As a result, the Learning Village Team ison the cusp of successfully implementing positive and sustainable changes for pre-engineeringtransfer students. In order to achieve its objective of “building a learning village that enhancesstudent engagement and creates ISU connections for community college pre-engineering transferstudents”, the Learning Village Team utilizes a Logic Model format. Provided by the EvaluationO-Team, this format allows for the planning of resources and activities leading to tangibleoutputs that are tied to
program utilizes the faculty, pre-engineering curriculumand physical campus of UW-Fox Valley, and the ABET accredited mechanical engineeringcurriculum, faculty, and equipment of UW-Platteville. Through funding donated by localbusinesses in the Fox Valley, and appropriation for equipment from the State of Wisconsin,facilities for a mechanical engineering program were constructed and equipped in time for thedegree to become available in the fall semester of 2002.The program currently has an enrollment of 77 pre-engineering students who plan to finish theirmechanical engineering degree at UW-Fox Valley in the UW-Platteville engineering program.There are 41 students in the mechanical engineering program, which graduated its first fivestudents in
, Columbia. She has taught courses in infrastructure management, planning, transportation and construction management. Dr. Orndoff has more than ten years of engineering field experience. Her application-based engineering research incorporates sustainability, policy, legal issues, economics, decision-making, planning as well as public administration, policy, finance, and their stakeholders. She is active in engineering leadership and management practice issues. She has also served on several professional committees, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the NSF Transportation Research Board, American Society of En- gineering Educators and economic development initiatives. c
coincide with Cañada College’s breakbetween the end of spring 2009 semester and the beginning of the summer 2009 session.Morning sessions were mostly devoted to studying math either in groups or individually usingMyMathTest10, an online system developed by Pearson Education for developing mathplacement tests and short math refresher programs. Note that the first week of the program hadmore workshops related to resources and skills needed for college success. Many of theworkshops planned for the second week were either cancelled or made optional as a result of amid-program focus group that indicated that students wanted to devote more time to studyingmath, and less on these workshops.2.2 Profile of 2009 Summer Math Jam StudentsThe 2009 Summer Math
Board Mary Smith has been employed with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 1987 and now serves as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy. She is responsible for the administration and management of matters related to the board’s higher education academic planning and policy functions, and she provides leadership on key projects, reports, and studies that cut across divisions of the agency. She has taught at the University of Texas, Austin,, and she currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin. Smith serves as the Project Coordinator for the $1.8 million productivity grant awarded to Texas from Lumina Foundation for Education
institution types indicated they had the financial resources they needed to finish college. Yet, on the upside, similar percentages of students indicated they were receptive to financial guidance.5Interestingly, 73% of the surveyed students agreed that they needed to study more than they didlast year. The study suggests that sophomores should not be assumed to have “successfullytransitioned” to college: as a cohort and as individuals they have distinctive needs andexperiences.3 In general, students also realized that they needed to seek tutoring and completetheir education programs. However, only 56% of the students in two-year institutions planned totransfer to another institution or were undecided. In particular the sophomores
AC 2011-2251: ”TUNING” ENGINEERING PROGRAMS IN THE CON-TEXT OF ABET ACCREDITATIONMary Eileen Smith, Ph.D., Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Mary E. Smith has been employed with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 1987 and now serves as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy. She is responsible for the administration and management of matters related to the Board’s higher education academic planning and policy functions, and she provides leadership on key projects, reports, and studies that cut across divisions of the agency. She has taught at The University of Texas at Austin, and she currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s
necessary and are all planned as part of the current project.Additionally, RCBC’s Workforce Development Institute and the Burlington County WorkforceDevelopment Board allow for the streamlined interaction between the college and industrypartners. This collaboration allows for the aligning of local, state, and federal resources underone umbrella. The WDI provides a unified, integrated workforce development system forBurlington County to identify and provide skills, training, and the education needed for theworkforce of today and tomorrow. The WDI diligently works to help prepare individuals foracademic success, for employment, and to gain critical new career skills meeting the needs ofindustry. The WDI accomplishes its mission through a mix of
12.1445.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The MentorLinks Program: Advancing Technological Education Program of the AACCIn the spring of 1998, a small but forward looking group of community college faculty andadministrators from across the United States gathered in Seattle, Washington for the openingreception of the Working Connections program. For the next several days they met on thecampus of Microsoft’s Cooperate headquarters in Redmond where they became betteracquainted, exchanged ideas, and made plans for how they would proceed forward over the nexttwo years. Chosen through a competitive grant application process, the meeting participants werefrom thirteen different community colleges but
3 hours 6 credit hrs Program Requirements 64 credit hrsTable 1: Advanced Manufacturing Program, Northwest Michigan College 2010 Degree Page 22.10.3PlanSouth Texas Technical CollegesSouth Texas College (McAllen): The precision manufacturing technology program provides anenvironment to develop technical skills that are highly marketable to the South Texas industries.The STC degree plan requires 69 credit hours for graduation in the following areas: 16 credithours of general education, 30 credit hours or nine classes related
components the following year, for returning students as well as the new ones. Therobotics project, which had become very popular with students, was refined and diversified toinclude two sequential years of activities and challenges. This enhancement provides increasedopportunity for our students to diversify their design and programming skills.The paper presents rationales for modifications and provides a detailed analysis of the programresults along with the planned developments for the 2014 EDGE Program.Brief History of the ProgramThe EDGE Program was started in 20031 and initially was intended to continue the work startedin the established San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP) 2 with a more intensefocus on the Engineering
of the required work for thiscourse is comprised of team projects. The service learning project required each team towork in a different area of urban housing renovation. One team would work on foundations,another team on plumbing, another team on electrical wiring, and so on. The teamassignments were made by the Instructor in consultation with the contractor in order to assureequivalent workloads for each team.. The project concluded with a report and a presentationby each team to the class. The team presentations and reports covered a broad area ofengineering applications related to residential construction that also provided a forum toexchange ideas and lessons learned during the project.. The planning, implementation, andresults of this
Transfer Alliance Project (TAP)which will provide continued support and advice on putting together a competitive transferapplication for the university of their choice. The students are also offered a stipend of $1000 intravel funds in order to present their research project at a national conference. The TTE REUprogram is described in greater detail by Artis2,3.Data Collection MethodsThe evaluation of the TTE program examines the overall success of the REU Site. Formativeevaluation for each cohort of participants is conducted to ensure that the program is progressingas planned. The formative evaluation measures include a survey conducted midway, examinationof weekly research journal entries, and one-on-one progress meetings. The
public University to submit and jointlymanage a CIPAIR NASA grant to improve the engineering curricula at both institutions bycreating new NASA inspired courses and/or improving existing courses by infusing them withNASA related materials. An important part of the program was the development of anundergraduate research plan that would help students relate their NASA sponsored research withSTEM course content and classroom activities. This partnership was intended to utilize thedominant transfer path for engineering students from our two-year college to complete theirbachelor degree.An intense advertising campaign was initiated in the early spring of 2010 to recruit qualifiedstudents and the results exceeded our expectations by a substantial
. Gwen has conducted over 30 workshops and presentations on cultural, racial, and generational diversity; assessment, evaluation, and accreditation; teaching and learning; and leadership. Gwen teaches organization administration and culture, internship experiences, multicultural university, project management capstone course, and strategic planning and institutional effectiveness at Old Do- minion University in the graduate program of the Darden College of Education. Prior to ODU, she was the Executive Assistant to the President from 2004 2005 and Director of Assessment from 1998 through 2004 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technologya small private STEM college in Indiana. She has also served as an editorial associate of
Planning. Blanco earned his Ph.D. in physics at Penn State University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees also in physics at CSU, Northridge. He has more than 35 years of academic, administrative, aerospace research, and management experience. He has supervised 14 master theses and 11 honor undergraduate theses, as well as supervised research and postdoctoral fellows. He has more than 30 peer-reviewed research articles and has participated in lead roles in research projects over his career in excess of $100 million. His area of expertise is experimental condensed matter physics, particularly in the characterization of semiconductor thin films used in the elec- tronic industry. Currently, he is leading the
train graduates that perform better in high-tech manufacturing positions: Advancedmanufacturing technologies are the key to competitive production in manufacturing. Theyprovide efficiency, productivity, and better product quality to the production process. Thecurriculum to be developed by technical college instructors will be in the form of lesson plans,student projects, online resources, or instructional materials.Strategy 1.2 Train skilled technicians to increase the productivity, efficiency, and quality ofmanufacturing: Advanced manufacturing incorporates many high-tech computer controlledproduction tools that are developed for and used in the manufacturing field, including high techproducts and processes to produce parts, and flexible
college faculty, administrators, and programcoordinators. The researchers requested the program coordinators to invite specifically femaleengineering students who are planning to transfer to a four-year institution. Female facilitatorsguided group interviews to create a safe and comfortable space for the participants to expresstheir opinions. Data from the guided group interviews were tape recorded and transcribed. Theresearchers reviewed and coded the transcripts to identify recurring themes and opinions.This research paper presents findings from interviews with female community college students inSTEM fields regarding their learning experiences, interaction with faculty, and educational andcareer aspirations. The authors discuss implications
is based on a facilitator development workshop that is offered in two parts, a five-day and a four-day segment. During these two segments participants are trained to conduct threeprofessional development workshops, the Teaching Skills Workshop (TSW), the TeachingDemonstration workshop (TD), and Teaching in the Community College (TICC).The Teaching Skills Workshop focuses on a specific set of instructional skills, which are the basisfor planning and implementing any successful lesson. The workshop creates opportunities forfaculty members to practice and develop these specific skills. Teaching Demonstration reliesmore heavily on mentoring. A full-time faculty member meets with a group of adjuncts tofurther discuss the lesson structure and