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Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Ford, University of Washington, Tacoma; Aleya Dhanji, Highline Community College; Kira Glynn King; Jie Sheng, University of Washington; Skyler Roth, Highline Community College; Emese Hadnagy, University of Washington

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transfer students shows that different groups of transfer students need different kindsof assistance in order to succeed at their new college or university ([10] and references therein).Factors affecting transfer student success include: • Emotional factors (feeling of isolation, transfer shock, lack of sense of belonging), • Financial factors (cost), • Educational planning factors (credits earned, time to completion, clarity on credit transfer), • Academic factors (GPA, academic preparedness, required remedial courses), • Institutional factors (size of school, distance of school).Research on the STEM transfer pathway involves two sides of efforts: On the side of communitycolleges, they mainly focus on factors that can

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory L. Heileman, The University of Arizona; Chaouki T Abdallah, Georgia Institute of Technology; Andrew Karl Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

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plans are as described above;however, what is typically presented to the students at each institution are web pages that containhelpful degree plans for the degrees being pursued. That is, students are generally only vaguelyaware that many different curricula exist for a degree program, and they are likely even less awareof the underlying degree requirements associated with the degree program. The key point is thatwithin each institution, degree plans have been carefully constructed so that if students followthem, they will earn their degrees. Thus, at the bottom of the Community College panel in Figure 1 Community College University AS Program

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University

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14% of the state college (2-year colleges) students earn a bachelor’sdegree in 6 years. The recent National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) 2020-21 Report (Bobbitt, R. et al., Aug 2021) indicated that higher education lost about 191,500 transferstudents in 2020-21, three times higher that 2019-20. Interestingly, HSI universities also reporteda substantial loss in the number of transfer students,(-11.8%).III.2: Florida Trends in Enrollment and GraduationThe Florida College Access Network (FCAN), June 2020, report noted that 42% of the currentlyenrolled college students said that their plans changed including taking a semester or a year off.Other data (FCAN, April 2018) indicate that the three-year AA-degree completion rate of

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STEM Education at the Two-Year College

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara E. Rodriguez, University of Texas, El Paso; Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas, El Paso; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Agniprava Banerjee, University of Texas, El Paso; Jana Foxe, University of Washington; James P. Grover; Gigi N. Delk

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teachingpractices. Fellows also participate in workshops to prepare inclusive teaching philosophies andlearn to create lesson plans that are aligned with the mission of their institution and incompliance with the curricular or subject plans. The deliverables are submitted for review andfeedback from the faculty mentors and the Aspire lead team. At the end of the semester, fellowssubmit a teaching portfolio as evidence of completion and participate in a closing ceremony inwhich the fellows and their mentors are recognized.IV. Similarities and Differences between RC Collaborative modelsSimilarities:Each of the two Texas RC collaboratives includes two universities; one of them is a largeresearch-intensive in an urban setting while the other is a comprehensive

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STEM Education at the Two-Year College

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gabe Hanzel-Sello, Growth Sector; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cheryl Martinez, Growth Sector; Ivanna Abreu

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different than typical campus events is that these sessionsare tailored to STEM Core student interest and availability. The STEM Core team plans theworkshop schedule around the Bridge program and STEM Core academic schedule, i.e., test dates,busier times of the semester, etc. This is meant to be fun and exciting for students, not an extratask that might be stressful for students to attend.STEM Career AwarenessSTEM career industry awareness is a focus of the STEM Core program from the moment studentsbegin participating in the bridge program, as they are tied to specific employers wherever possible.During summer 2022, sites completed ORISE modules in additive manufacturing andcybersecurity tied to research being conducted at national labs. The bridge

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Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruk T. Berhane, Florida International University; Collins N. Vaye, Florida International University; Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Virginia Tech; Daniel Ifeoluwa Adeniranye, Florida International University

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provided transfer data from 2016-2022, while the other three institutionslisted data for only some of those years. As for the other universities, we were not able to find publicly available information ontheir respective institutional research websites. We then contacted each institutional office directlyvia email to request the engineering transfer data for Black students. In some cases, we weredirected to a data request form, which we have subsequently completed and are currently awaitinga response. In other cases, we have not received responses from our emails. In the coming months,we plan to continue contacting these institutional research offices to try to obtain the informationthat we are requesting. We are also working to contact the

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu P.E., San Antonio College; Clint Taylor; Sam Ximenes, WEX Foundation; Shazia Iqbal, Rice University; Kathryn Bolish

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andpromising trends in education is the “edutainment” concept, which combineseducational content with entertaining activities so, the participants learn while havingfun.The program proved its flexibility as it was adapted to various locations, number ofparticipants, and time intervals. The paper will present the continuation of the program,the new results, and the plans for future expansion of the program to reach a broaderrange of participants.IntroductionExtensive evidence supports the effectiveness of instructing engineering students inspatial visualization skills, leading to improved outcomes. Research, spanning from theearly 1990s onwards, has consistently shown that practicing and training in spatialvisualization enhances performance in

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Two-Year College Division Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University

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-prepared to perform research(1.0) My students were well-prepared to make technical presentations(0.6) My students had sufficient experience in computing to support their workLessons Learned and Planned ActionsThe formative evaluation of Year 1 of REU-PATHWAYS as well as the grant teams revealedsome interesting insights:• There is need for REU participants to feel they belong to the program. We will add a home room meeting every morning in Year 2 and Year 3.• Given that the community college students all commute to campus, a physical space is needed as a “homebase” to provide a communal location for interactions outside of their research labs.ConclusionsBased on the results from this final program evaluation, the REU-PATHWAYS program

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STEM Education at the Two-Year College

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University; Mara Lopez, Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Sarah Belknap, Westchester Community College; Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Laurie S. Miller McNeill, Westchester Community College; Juan R. Rodriguez, Westchester Community College

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indiscussion with the presenters and each other throughout. The first activity, which is also anactivity for students that had been previously tried early in the semester at WCC, involvedwriting a paragraph about a recent learning experience (related to the course topic if done withstudents) describing: 1. What you were trying to learn and why; 2. How you planned to use yourlearning; 3. A positive experience during your learning; and, 4. A negative experience duringyour learning. After that, in a second activity, pairs of participants: 1. Reviewed each others’paragraphs; 2. Captured empathy and encouragement points; and, 3. Verbally summarized whatthey learned about each other. For students in their classroom, this activity would be replaced bythe

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Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Yowell, University of Colorado Boulder; Heidi G. Loshbaugh; Nick Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder

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5 25 125 Red Rocks Community College2 4-6 2 25 50 Front Range Community College2 4-6 2 25 50 Arapahoe Community College2 4-6 2 25 50 Totals 17 4251 Year 1 is a planning year for the Community College of Denver.2 Years 4-6 (phase 2) include three “optional” years for scaling, with year 4 being a planning year for three new colleges. Two cohorts of ~25 students, at each new college, will be supported through Engineering

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Dillon, University of Washington; EC Cline, University of Washington Tacoma; Emese Hadnagy, University of Washington Tacoma ; Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amanda K Sesko, University of Washington Tacoma; Rebecca N Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Noelle Wilson

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majors. Preliminary results reinforce prior STEM literature which emphasizes theimportant connections between the development of identity and elements of sense of belonging [23].RQ2: How do activities focused on research identity support transfer students in STEM fields?Our preliminary results indicate the artifact activity was a wonderful way to help students develop aresearch identity in the class. Sharing the artifacts with other students empowered some students to adoptspecific roles in the class over time. The student insights are consistent with prior findings by Rodriguezet al about STEM identity [26].Based on our work in progress results with a small initial offering we plan to continue offering this coursein the future as a bridge for

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Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bob Schaffer, Mission College

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college”, and often struggle to create education plans [2]. Others, still, have sharedthe negative impacts that first-generation college students face based on having lower income,being under-represented, and lesser prepared [3]. While attending middle and high school, manypotential future first-generation college students lack an awareness that college is a viable path.For those that are aware of higher education, it is often seen as an expensive option or one thatisn’t possible based on current academic success since low-income and under-representedstudents are also statistically more likely to be below grade-level standards.Once in college, low-income students spend additional time and resources seeking scholarshipsand/or working in what are

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Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeyoung Woo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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, and peers more. However, students'meetings with faculty/staff are less frequent than in community colleges. In addition, more transferstudents never met their faculty/staff advisors after transferring, so more close support is needed.The author plans the following recommendations for future works: - to perform the same CSF survey in future years to compare the outcomes, - to perform the same survey with juniors who just transferred to CPP, and - to conduct the CSF survey to other disciplines across the campus.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under AwardNo. 2225128.References[1] J. Sislin, and M. C., Mattis, Enhancing the Community College Pathway to EngineeringCareers

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Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Doris J. Espiritu, City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College; Ruzica Todorovic, City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College; Bridget O'Connell, City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College

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Psychology: A User's Portfolio. Causal and Control Beliefs, 1995. 1: p. 35-37.21. J.R. Terborg, G.S. Howard and S.E. Maxwell, Evaluating Planned Organizational Change: A Method for Assessing Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Change. Academy of Management Review, 1980. 5(1).22. H. Goedhart and H. Johan, The Retrospective Pretest and the Role of Pretest Information in Evaluative Studies. Psychological Reports, 1992. 70(3): p. 6.23. Education, A.S.F.E., Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology, 2021. 2022, American Society for Engineering Education.24. D. Jenkins and J. Fink, What We Know About Transfer. 2015, Columbia University, Teachers College, Community College Research Center.: New York, NY.

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Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; David Quintero, San Francisco State University; Fatemeh Khalkhal, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State University; Jenna Wong, San Francisco State University; Yiyi Wang, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong, P.E., San Francisco State University; Robert Petrulis

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of Engineering. This paperpresents the first-year development, implementation, and outcomes of the program with plans forfuture program improvement.First-Year Implementation of the S-SMART Summer Research Internship ProgramIn 2022, the S-SMART Summer Research Internship Program was piloted with a cohort of tenstudents participating in four research projects across three engineering disciplines - civilengineering, computer engineering, and mechanical engineering. Each project team wassupervised by at least one faculty advisor and one SFSU student peer mentor.Recruitment and Selection of Program ParticipantsThe S-SMART interns were selected through an online application process. The applicationform, created on Qualtrics, asked for information

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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Ifeoluwa Adeniranye, Florida International University; Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University; Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Florida International University; Jingjing Liu, Florida International University

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, retention, and graduation data revealabout the current enrollment and student success trends for Black engineering students from [State]community colleges?A member of the research team with an existing account accessed an interactive reporting toolsplatform from the website at Institution 1. The platform provides a robust database with differentdata point options to select from. First, we downloaded the “enrolled Students by Admit Type”database. A unique feature of this platform was the “choose filter” option, from which we wereable to disaggregate the data by time variables (e.g., academic year and semester), academicstructure variables (e.g., college of engineering and degree plan (BA and BS)), degree and levelvariables (e.g., selecting only

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Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caroline Lubbe, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida; Justin Ortagus, University of Florida; Hope Allegra Allchin, University of Florida; Sofia Isabel Montiel, University of Florida

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often associated with qualitative data, we plan to follow an explanatory sequential casestudy research design where we pursue a rich description of two decades of data to betterunderstand the vertical transfer pathway into engineering degree programs [79]. By considering arich data source of background characteristics, enrollment patterns, and student outcomes over twodecades, this study also aims to contribute to the broader discourse on engineering education byinvestigating trends in vertical transfer student success at research-intensive institutions.3.1 Study Context and Data Source. This study used two decades of data from SU, a large publicresearch-intensive university in Florida. SU was chosen as the case study site due to its strong