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2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, SFAz Center for STEM, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, SFAz Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos

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Paper ID #30289Achieving Broader Impacts in STEM at 2-year Hispanic Serving InstitutionsCynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona Cynthia Pickering is a retired electrical engineer with 35 years industry experience and technical lead- ership in software development, artificial intelligence, information technology architecture/engineering, and collaboration systems research. In September 2015, she joined Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) to lead the Girls in STEM initiative and translate her passion for STEM into opportunities that will attract, inspire and retain more girls in STEM to make it the new norm. She

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Diversity and Two-year Colleges part 2

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Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Yushin Ahn; Karen Willis, Fresno City College; Deanna Craig, Clemson University

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development for technology-enhanced learning en- vironments through the application of evidence-based teaching practices and the assessment of academic engagement and is an avid practitioner of Universal Design for Learning. Dr. Dancz teaches an interdis- ciplinary Creative Inquiry course on Conation and Creativity in Education and is the faculty director of Clemson University’s National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program. Dr. Dancz is a KolbeTM Certified Consultant and regularly consults on conation and striving instincts.Dr. Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College Dr. Elizabeth Adams teaches full time as an Engineering Faculty member at Fresno City College in Fresno, California. She a civil engineer

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2-Year College Division: Collaboration Between Institutions

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James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University System; Karen Buck, M.Ed., The Blinn College District; Nancy Shankle Jordan, RELLIS Academic Alliance in The Texas A&M University System; Mary Hensley, The Blinn College District

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 RELLIS: The Transformational Initiative for Collaborative Education and Research RealizedAbstractIn May 2016, the Texas A&M University System announced an initiative to transform a 2,000-acre tract owned by the System into a premier, high-tech research, technology development andeducation center, which is called the RELLIS Campus. The collaborative nature of the RELLISCampus offers unparalleled opportunities for students. Through the RELLIS Academic Alliance,the cornerstone of the educational programs, the System’s 10 regional universities, its agencies,and Blinn College District are collaborating on the campus to provide relevant academic

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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

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Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; David M. Hata, Portland Community College; Emery DeWitt, Mentor-Connect/FDTC; Liesel Ritchie, Oklahoma State University; Nnenia Campbell, Collaborative for the Social Dimensions of Disasters ; Jamie Vickery, Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events, Oklahoma State University

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sharing successful educational mod- els and practices in technician education, with a particular emphasis on faculty development, the first year of study for success in engineering and technology majors, and mentoring educators nationally. Craft is President of Elaine L. Craft Educational Consulting, L.L.C.Mr. David M. Hata, Portland Community College David M. Hata is an independent contractor specializing in evaluation of National Science Foundation funded projects. He currently serves as External Evaluator for the Mentor-Connect Project, the South Carolina ATE Center of Excellence, and six other ATE projects. Mr. Hata taught at Portland Community College for 32 years before retiring in 2003. He is a life member of

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Two-year College STEM Programs Meeting the Needs of Industry

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randy Libros, Community College of Philadelphia; Tammy Wooten; Mozhgan Bahadory

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Paper ID #22981From Entry to Employment: Interlocking Keys to Building a Successful Tech-nician ProgramMr. Randy Libros, Community College of Philadelphia Randy Libros is Program Director, Applied Science and Engineering Technology, and Associate Professor of physics.Dr. Tammy WootenDr. Mozhgan Bahadory c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018From Entry to Employment—Interlocking keys to building a successful technician programWith support from a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE)grant (Grant #1400433), and with significant industry

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Workforce Preparation at the Two-year College

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Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College; Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr, Miami Dade Community College

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Paper ID #34224Building a Student-to-Workforce Pipeline for 21st Century Cloud IndustryCareersDr. Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College Dr. Elodie Billionniere is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at Miami Dade College (MDC). She has helped MDC secure over $3 million in federal funding the past three years for STEM and emerging technology education programs as well as a collaborative high tech learning hub, Cloud Computing Center, with the aim of providing further opportunities to minoritized populations to meet workforce needs. With industry partners, she has been instrumental in the

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2-Year College Division: Students and the Pipeline

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Philip J Lunsford II P.E., East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Jennifer James, Innovation Early College High School at Pitt County Schools

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Paper ID #28815Strengthening the pipeline from High School to Community College toUniversity in rural underserved communities through a collaborativevideoconferencing infrastructureDr. Philip J Lunsford II P.E., East Carolina University Phil Lunsford received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a registered professional engineer and is currently an Associate Professor at East Carolina University. His research interests include cyber security, telemedicine applications, network

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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

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Pallavi Ramakanth Kowligi, Florida State University; Priyanka Prajapati, Florida State University; Faye R Jones, Florida State University; Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create) inherent in documents.3.2. Data Collection and Text Processing.Data Collection. Figure 2 depicts the four-step process used in this study: 1) Data Collection andInventory, 2) Extraction of relevant text (i.e., competencies), 3) Text pre-processing, and 4) topic(noun) and level (verb) extraction.Figure 2. Steps to Processing Documents using NLPAs Figure 2 shows, Step 1 involved the collection and inventory of documents to be used in theanalysis (in this case AM Curriculum Framework and AM Competency Model). As a surrogatefor employers’ valued competencies, we used the 2010 DOL’s AM Competency Model [14]. Wealso used the 2019-20 CTE Curriculum Framework for Engineering Technology

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Research, Innovation and Careers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge E Loyo Rosales, Rice University; Armineh Noravian, Arizona State University; Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University; Carrie A. Obenland, Rice University; Carolyn Nichol, Rice University

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Paper ID #25897Assessing Objective Attainment in a Research Experience for Undergradu-ates (REU) Program Focused on Community College StudentsJorge Loyo-Rosales, Rice University Dr. Jorge Loyo joined Rice’s Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Engineering Research Center (ERC) in January 2016 as a lecturer and became NEWT’s Associate Director of Education in Jan- uary 2017. Jorge coordinates and runs NEWT’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at ASU, Rice and UTEP, and a training program for the REU mentors. He developed and runs NEWT’s Core Course, offered to the center’s first-year graduate