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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shen Liu, West Kentucky Community and Technical College

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Paper ID #9331Implementing Project-Based Learning in Physics and Statics CoursesDr. Shen Liu, West Kentucky Community and Technical College Dr. Shen Liu is an Associate Professor of Physics at West Kentucky Community and Technical College. She is also an adjunct professor at University of Kentucky College of Engineering in Paducah campus. She got her BS and MS in Jet Propulsion from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Old Dominion University. Page 24.710.1

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Armineh Noravian, San Francisco State University; Patricia Irvine, San Francisco State University

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and ill-structured problems at a community college. Thetechnology program at North-West Community College (NWCC) is a two-year program. In the first year, students learn fundamentals and basic low-tech skills. The learning takes place in courses that incorporate projects withwell-structured problems, often with both a theoretical classroom and a labcomponent. In the second year, students engage in ill-structured problemsolving in their technically sophisticated capstone projects that integrate theprinciples that students have learned during the first year and continue tolearn and practice in the second year. The findings suggest that scaffolding experiences, that is, movingfrom very well-structured problems to ill-structured problems

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Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Manjari Wijenaike; Dennis M. Faber, FCC, inc.

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Carolina Advanced Technological (SC ATE) Center of Excellence since 1994, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educational leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. Currently serving as Principal Investigator, Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE; Co-Principal Investigator, SC ATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education; and Co-Principal Investigator, ATE Regional Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education Us- ing Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES). The SC ATE Center is widely known for developing and broadly shar- ing successful educational models and

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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served as Director of the South Carolina Advanced Technological (SC ATE) Center of Excellence since 1994, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educational leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. Currently serving as Principal Investigator, Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE; Co-Principal Investigator, SC ATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education; and Co-Principal Investigator, ATE Regional Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education Us- ing Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES). The SC ATE Center is widely known for developing and broadly shar

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Mike Eastman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Vincent Joseph Amuso Sr., Rochester Institute of Technology; John Morelli, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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Transfer Pipeline (TiPi) Scholars’ program recentlyfunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that focuses on students who transfer at the 3rdyear level from 2-year schools to our university. With scholarship support from NSF, we aim torecruit, retain and graduate a total of 75 transfer scholars in our engineering and engineeringtechnology BS degree programs. The NSF scholarship is in addition to grants and aid awardedby our university. In support of this project, the university will contribute $50,000 to ensure thatTiPi scholars have continuing financial support after the grant expires and help them graduate ontime. This support indicates the university’s enthusiasm, a firm commitment of service to ourengineering and engineering technology

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Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David I. Spang, Burlington County College

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industry partners. The project subsequently identified towhat extent, and how, each skill is contained as a student-gained competency within thecurriculum.In order to identify and understand the skills required by employers, they must be engaged andinvolved. Often this entails an educational institution creating a forum where an employerrepresentative can experience the institution’s commitment and communicate their knowledge ofrequired skills.The NSF project mentioned previously identified critical technical and non-technical skills aswell, and further created linkages between courses, programs, and careers. The project, originallybegun in 2008, consisted of a one-day planning conference with manufacturing representativesto learn their views

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Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Melissa Thompson P.E. P.E., BridgeValley Community and Technical College; Bekir Zihni Yuksek, University of Northern Iowa

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having sufficientfunds for college. Further, 63% of students indicated that they work an average of 27 hours perweek to supplement their income for college. Demographic, baseline, and survey data aided inwriting a NSF S-STEM grant to sponsor the creation of the Bridgemont STEM Scholars programto address issues of retention and enrollment in BCTC’s engineering technology and appliedtechnology programs.IntroductionIn 2011, the State of West Virginia projected that over 10,000 engineering and technician jobswill need to be filled by 20181. Most community colleges in West Virginia, however, do nothave the educational programming needed to transform the workforce from blue collaroccupations to STEM careers. Students throughout the state consistently

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Marbella Camacho, The STEM Center, Cañada College; Danni Redding Lapuz, The STEM Center at Cañada College

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Paper ID #9202The STEM Center: Creating a Model for Success in Community CollegeSTEM Education ˜Anna Marbella Camacho, The STEM Center, Canada College Anna Camacho joined Ca˜nada College in 2012 in the capacity of Assistant Project Director of Hispanic- Serving Institution-STEM Grant (CalSTEP). In this position, Anna manages all financial aspects of the grant’s $1.1 million yearly budget. In addition to handling fiscal matters, Anna also collaborates in pro- gram implementation & development and new grant proposals. Prior to joining Ca˜nada College, Anna was a Program Officer

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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. One ofthe Council’s recommendations to address this issue is to engage students with researchexperiences in the first two years. Recently there has also been an increasing awareness of theimportant role that community colleges play in educating STEM professionals, especially inbroadening participation among students from underrepresented groups. This paper presents theresults of a collaborative project between a small Hispanic-serving community college and a largeurban university to address the retention and completion problems among community collegestudents through a summer research internship program that provides opportunities for freshmenand sophomore community college students to participate in engineering research under thesupervision

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Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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there is an adequatesupply of these workers for our nation’s industries. We support community and technicalcolleges by developing skill standards, designing curricula, developing teaching materials, andtraining faculty to teach new photonics courses. OP-TEC recently commissioned a survey ofover four thousand U.S. photonics employers to determine their current and projected needs fortechnicians.8 We also polled the thirty-two existing two-year photonics colleges to estimate thefuture supply of new technicians.9 These surveys unearthed a huge disparity between supply anddemand. There is a current and projected need of over 800 new photonics technicians per year,while the colleges are producing less than 300 graduates to fill these jobs.These are

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Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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presents a very brief description and history of the EDGE (Early Development ofGeneral Engineering) Summer Bridge Program that was initiated in 2003 and focuses on thelatest iteration of the program. This project was initially supported by a grant from the NationalScience Foundation and more recently by grants from Department of Education.At first the program was intended for well-prepared high school students in the 10th and 11thgrades who would have participated in the San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program(PREP) while in middle school. EDGE was designed to pick up where PREP left off byintroducing them to college level course work as a learning community and providing activitiesto help them develop independent learning and teamwork skills

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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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

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Catherine Baker Lipe; Brandon Price

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resources.20 The NASA CiPair Internship Program is a 10-week summer researchinternship program for community college engineering students wherein groups of three to fourstudents work on a research project under the supervision of a university faculty and a graduatestudent mentor. The program has been shown to increase student self-efficacy for success in afour-year institution and interest in pursuing advanced degrees.21 Supplemental instruction (SI) isan academic assistance program that creates a safe environment for students to get theirquestions answered and receive feedback from peers who have been successful in their course.Another academic support program developed to help students develop the study skills necessaryfor college success is the

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Bushey-McNeil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is past Chair of ASEE’s Educational Research and Methods division and a member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi.Mr. Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette Russell Long is Director of Project Assessment at the Purdue University School of Engineering Education. He has extensive experience in assessment and student services in higher education and has worked for eight years as the Data Steward of the MIDFIELD project

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Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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2. Electro Optical Devices 3. Fiber Optics 4. Lasers Systems Robotics Specialty 5. Advanced Programmable Logic Controllers 6. Intro to Robotic Systems 7. Manufacturing Processes 8. Capstone Project Telecommunications Specialty 9. Computer Repair 10. Wireless Networks 11. Wireless Security 12. Telecommunication Systems TOTAL 60 Page 24.1151.6Replicating the Photonics Systems Technician Curriculum ModelIn 2014, 28 colleges across the U.S. have adopted the Photonics Systems Technician

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Page 24.724.4to a larger four-year institution, they are often “lost in the forest”. Many of USA’s transferstudents do not live on campus, and frequently commute more than an hour each way. Thusthere is little opportunity for these students to develop a sense of community.The student success seminar has been extremely effective in getting the students to worktogether. The small, intimate class (17 - 22) and the numerous group projects and activitieslead to collaborative student interactions that last after the end of the semester.Another mechanism that promotes community building is the formation of Mentor Triads.Each USA-LINK student is paired with a previous USA-LINK scholar and a faculty mentor.These triads meet to assist in the student’s

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Leslie Braniger, Galveston College

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were allowed to choosetheir own topic, such as Green Building or Bottled Water versus Tap Water, so that they couldtake ownership of their work and peak their interest in STEM topics, courses, and majors. Theeffectiveness of this course is based on both its ability to meet its learning objectives and itsability to engage students in sustainability topics, projects, and career choices. Both classroomdiscussions and major assignments served as the basis for course assessment and revision of thiscourse.1.0 IntroductionThe focus of this paper is to assess the use of Sustainability Engineering within a Composition II Page 24.778.2course to increase

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Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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, TN20. The New Electronics Technology – Circa 2015, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX21. Its 2010 and the new Electronics Technology Paradigm is Emerging, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2010 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, Louisville, KY22. http://www.laney.edu/wp/environmental_control_tech/ect-nsf-initiative/23. Teaching Networked Embedded Control at the Two-Year College Level, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2012 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX24. eSyst ATE Project home page: http://www.esyst.org25. Electronics Explained

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan; Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

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