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Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Ellen Hause, AACC; Benjamin Taylor, Seminole Community College

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Microsoft Working Connections program was the strongpersonal and professional relationships that developed between the faculty mentees and theirmentors and the professional development experienced by the program participants. The AACCstaff took note of the powerful “faculty professional development” aspects of the program and inthe early years of the new millennium, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation(NSF), developed their own mentee/mentor based advanced technological education facultydevelopment project. Dubbed the MentorLinks program, its first class consisted of seven mentee Page 12.1445.2community colleges and six mentor

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Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; James Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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Page 12.17.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A College-University Partnership for Developing A Learning Environment for Hybrid Electric Vehicle TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes a college-university joint project supported by the Advance TechnologyEducation (ATE) Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for developing a learningenvironment for hybrid electric vehicle technology. The partnership was established betweenMacomb Community College (MCC) in Warren, Michigan and the Division of EngineeringTechnology at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. WSU has developed a setof short courses for community college instructors and automotive engineers, and MCC becomesthe first

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Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Duane Akroyd, North Carolina State University

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University. Duane is currently the PI on an NSF grant to provide online faculty development for community college STEM faculty. His research interests include factors that impact community colleges faculty view of their jobs. Page 12.377.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Community College Teacher Professional Development: Year Three Data from an Online Graduate Certificate Program in Community College TeachingIntroduction and Project OverviewThe departments of Adult and Higher Education (AHE) and Mathematics, Science andTechnology Education (MSTE) within the College of

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline Van Ingen-Dunn, Arizona State University

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activities both in the Fulton School of Engineering and the Maricopa County Community College District. Page 12.611.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 ENCOURAGING TRANSFER STUDENTS TO PURSUE A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Mary R. Anderson-Rowland and Caroline VanIngen-Dunn Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe Maricopa Engineering Transition Scholars (METS) is a collaborative project to encouragecommunity college students to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or computer scienceand also

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Russell Richardson, College of the Canyons; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Joseph Gerda, College of the Canyons; Floyd Moos, College of the Canyons

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curriculum projects, especially in the areas of technical education. Dr. Alfano has a B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Education/Counseling, and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education, Work, and Adult Development. She also directs the Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC) for California and Nevada.Joseph Gerda, College of the Canyons Joseph Gerda has been at College of the Canyons since 1987, where he is currently a professor in the mathematics department. Since 1988 he has held a variety of positions including Department Chair, Division Chair, Coordinator for Instruction, Assistant Dean of Instruction & Athletic Director. He has been involved in the Hesburg Award winning staff development activity

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Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Robert Alldredge, Allan Hancock College

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State and Federal curriculum projects, especially in the areas of technical education. Dr. Alfano has a B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Education/Counseling, and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education, Work, and Adult Development. She also directs the Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC) for California and Nevada.Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge Sharlene Katz is a co-Principal Investigator of CREATE and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where she has been for over 25 years. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with B.S. (1975), M.S. (1976), and Ph.D. (1986

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

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thirtystudents that shared the same two classes. This cohort was split into ten teams for bothclassroom and afternoon activities. Study groups of two teams each were formed, each with adesignated Study Leader trained in group learning methods (similar to Supplemental Instruction).The training emphasized the value of collaborative learning and peer support, and explained thepurpose and function of Learning Communities. The SS1 sessions provided a supportiveenvironment for students to work together on homework and group projects while building asense of community and shared success. The SS2 sessions were one hour long and included theentire class, along with the SS1 Leaders. These sessions included workshops on studytechniques, test taking, physics lab

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Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

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has the potential to be a more effective teaching pedagogy compared to traditionalinstructor-centered teaching environments, and should be applied to math, science and otherengineering courses with traditionally high attrition rates.6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis project was supported by Hewlett Packard through the Technology for Teaching grant, andthe @ONE Scholar Program. The author would also like to thank Darla Cooper and Michelle Page 12.487.12Barton of the @ONE Scholar Program, and Charles Iverson of Cañada College for invaluableinput, discussions, comments and suggestions.7. REFERENCES1 Birk, J., and J. Foster. “The importance of Lecture in