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Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University

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the scholarship recipients have continued to progresssatisfactorily towards completion of their electrical engineering degrees. Page 15.460.2IntroductionOur engineering program at Seattle Pacific University aims to address the increasing technicalneeds of our country (Grose, 2006, NSB 2004), including the greater Seattle community, byspecifically increasing the number of community college transfer students in our engineeringprogram, a potentially untapped resource (Anderson-Rowland et al. 2004). The National ScienceFoundation has supported this effort through a grant in its S-STEM program. The goal of thegrant, Engaging the Community to Achieve

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Paper ID #10207Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Com-munity College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship Pro-gram ˜Prof. Nick P Rentsch, Canada College Nick Rentsch is an adjunct professor of physics, engineering, and computer science at Ca˜nada College, Skyline College, and San Francisco State University. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electrical engineering and computer systems. His technical interests include embedded control, electronic hardware design, analog audio electronics, digital audio signal processing

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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the exercises progress, to offer diminishing support and requiremore concept formation, experimentation and debugging.Although the CALSTEP project aims to develop a comprehensive lower-division curriculum thatis delivered completely online, the focus of this paper is the development of the course materialsfor the online Graphics course and its pilot implementation at Cañada College in Fall 2015.2. Developing an Online Engineering Graphics CourseWhen switching to an online teaching environment, faculty have identified issues and concernsin both areas of course design and implementation21. These issues include time commitment21,use of technology tools23, implementing effective pedagogical strategies24,25, and the switch infaculty role to

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Martha M. Ellis

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. For this reason, the decision was made to develop theprogram to support migration to civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering,and mechanical engineering. These tend to be the foundational engineering disciplines and arethe most populous engineering degree programs in Texas9.The degree curriculum that was developed is presented in Appendix I of this paper. It contains atotal of 65 credit hours, which is consistent with the first two years of most baccalaureateengineering programs in Texas. In Texas, the average number of credit hours in all engineeringdegrees is 128. As such, this degree represents approximately 50 percent of the total credit hoursin a baccalaureate engineering degree.Texas has a state-mandated common

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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laboratories, and faculty expertise in this new area. An inter-disciplinary teamfrom the technical fields mentioned previously will direct this three-year project towards itsobjectives. The major areas of interest for the project presently are: the Smart Grid, building Page 22.936.12automation, e-health care, and to a lesser extent automotive electronics and intelligenttransportation systems.To achieve the goals outlined in this paper, more of the ET/EET curriculum should be focusedon activities and projects that involve practical systems. Starting with structured activities andprojects and simple systems to more open-ended projects and more complex

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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program/discipline specific criteria. For decades, technical programsleading to an electrical/electronics technology (ET) or engineering technology (EET) associate’sdegree have tended to follow a cook-book type approach to new curriculum development and/oradoption by focusing on a “parts-centric” approach to the introduction of new technology and the Page 25.1254.2electronic devices that enable it. In fact, the vast majority of these programs, even now, follow afairly standard collection of technical courses1, whose content is oftentimes dictated by the bestselling textbooks on the particular subject matter. To be sure, faculty with industry

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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-year transfer institution, reduce the effects of transfer shock, and enhance their academicsuccess at the baccalaureate institution, the COMETS program provides opportunities toparticipate in the Intersegmental Enrollment Program. Every fall semester for each year of thegrant, four Cañada College sophomore students—one each from the areas of civil, mechanical,electrical, and computer engineering—are selected to participate in upper-division courses orsenior design capstone courses at SFSU.For the 2010-2011 academic year, the civil engineering student participated in the design andconstruction of a timber bridge. The mechanical engineering student participated in a project onMaterials and Manufacturing. Both the computer engineering and the

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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, engineering technology education at the two-year college level does not producetechnicians with the skill sets needed to install, evaluate, maintain, and up-grade these systems asthey are envisioned. In fact, our present system of training IT workers and network techniciansand those that deal with the so called physical layer (i.e. electronics/electrical/mechatronicstechnicians) tend to promote segregation of their respective skill sets. Many in these fieldsperceive a conflict (i.e. inability to communicate effectively) between the IT field and thephysical layer people when it comes to applications involving computer controlled hardware. Infact, Cisco has built up their networking curriculum with the IT needs of the Enterprise as theonly driving

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno; S. Shelley, U.S. Air Force; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Mark K. Smith, California State University, Long Beach, College of Continuing and Professional Education

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, and to target the curriculum, within the context of available courses, to meetindustry needs. This is displayed in the model via the feedback loop from customers (employers).The feedback described by the authors not only applies to the state 2 operands but to continuingeducation and retraining for the existing workforce as well.According to U. M. Al-Turki et al, We refer to the collection of people with different skills and professions available for employment as ‘job market’. The interaction between these components (i.e. educational institutions, workforce market and job market) can be viewed as a chain of suppliers and customer (p. 215).The authors go on to indicate that, The flow in the workforce supply chain

Conference Session

Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Elizabeth Paderi Cheung, Los Angeles Pierce College; Tiffany Reardon

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community collegeengineering programs to support all the courses needed by students to transfer. Meanwhile,transfer admissions have become increasingly more competitive because of budget cuts in four-year universities. As a result, prospective engineering students who attend community collegeswith limited or no engineering course offerings are at a disadvantage for both transfer admissionas well as time to completion upon transfer. This paper is a description of a collaborative projectamong community college engineering programs in California to address this problem byaligning engineering curriculum, enhancing teaching effectiveness using Tablet PCs, andincreasing access to engineering courses through online education. The project includes aSummer

Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine

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the question. Perhaps a betterapproach is a top down “how it works” presentation of electronics starting with the applications,systems, equipment then eventually delving deeper into the circuits and the components. It is amore interesting approach and can be implemented to the degree needed in each schoolaccording to local industry requirements.If it were possible to create a curriculum from scratch for today’s technician, the top downapproach would certainly be a major alternative. It starts with the application or equipment thendigs deeper into the system to identify major components such as modules or PC boards. Thecircuits are then considered. Ultimately the individual components and electrical theories wouldbe introduced.As it turns out

Conference Session

Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Institute of Technology Mike Eastman is Department Chair and professor of electrical, computer, and telecommunications engi- neering technology at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research interests include embedded systems design and development focusing on hardware algorithm implementation and sensing and control. Most recently, Eastman has been involved with curriculum redesign and academic calendar conversion at RIT. Prior to embarking on a career in academia, Eastman spent six years at Intel Corporation, where he was a Senior Systems Engineer. His work at Intel focused on custom embedded systems hardware design. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering technology and a M.S. in computer science from RIT.Dr

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie A. Rursch, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University

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provides these students opportunities to continue on to a four-year degree through applying their previously earned degree, but also produces a more capabletechnology worker to support industry needs. ISU has partnered with the 15 community collegedistricts in the state to develop this new degree program that, through a series of communitycollege program evaluations, articulates students with a two-year AAS in computer orinformation technology into the four-year program. This paper focuses on the cooperative effortundertaken between the community college districts and the ISU Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering to establish this program, data in support of the program's creation, andthe curriculum. It is divided into six sections

Conference Session

Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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traditional, topic-based curriculum. (Nickerson, et. al. 1985). The author haspreviously discussed the importance of these ideas in a previous ASEE publication, entitled“Assessment of The Four Features of Problem-Based Learning.” In that presentation, theauthor described how he had utilized the four features in the courses he has taught. He alsopresented analyses of the feedback data he had obtained and suggested guidelines for furtherimprovement (Ross, 1993; Tozman, 2004). Some of those ideas have been reproduced here forsake of clarity and completeness. Page 23.226.2Four Features 1. Learning must be cumulative: The subject matter is not learned by

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring, Canada College

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of 20 content topics, and 6 general course learning objectives. B. The course lecture resources should be flexible for use by a variety of instructors (novice and experienced) in a variety of delivery formats (e.g., flipped, online, blended). In particular, although the initial implementation and testing of the curriculum was in a “traditional” flipped format, future implementations were planned in which students from two or more different courses would be simultaneously performing student-centered activities under the guidance of a single instructor. C. As with all of the lab curricula in the CALSTEP project, the lab should aim to achieve the thirteen objectives for engineering educational laboratories

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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the third track involveda relatively new pre-existing AS degree program6 that would be updated.Furthermore, one of the faculty members on the SET curriculum feasibility committee alreadyhad a $.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technology Education (ATE)grant titled, “Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Education Project”, with its foremost projectgoals being curriculum development (including course material and labs) and two-year collegefaculty development activities. Today, this technology is better known as the Internet of Things(IoT) or cyber-physical systems (CPSs) technology. Cyber-physical systems technology refers toembedded control systems that are “tightly coupled” to the real world and require timing toperform

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College; Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College

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developing an energy efficient system for remote lighting control which continuesto save the college energy and money.Another group of Energy Interns designed and built a bicycle powered generator fordemonstration purposes. Realizing that the kinesthetic experience of pedaling to light LEDbulbs and tungsten bulbs is a memorable exercise in energy efficiency, the students builtthe Energy Bike and donated it with documentation and curriculum to a local high schoolto inspire future college students to study physics and engineering and to be more energyefficient.Solar InternsThe Solar Interns learned through hands-on projects how to site and install solarphotovoltaic panels. After their month-long program they formed study groups to preparefor the North

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Paper ID #11870Measuring Community College Students’ Self-Efficacy toward Circuit Anal-ysisDr. Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College Carl Whitesel has spent his career teaching Engineering Technology, and has taught in the community college setting since 2007. He is currently teaching Robotics and Automated Systems within the Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Institute at Mesa Community College. His teaching focus is primarily on circuit analysis, electronics, motors and sensors. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education - Curriculum and Instruction, from Arizona State University in 2014. His primary research interests are

Conference Session

Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College; Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Judith F. Donnelly, Three Rivers Community-Technical College; Fenna D. Hanes, New England Board of Higher Education

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AC 2011-1769: CREATING REAL-WORLD PROBLEM-BASED LEARN-ING CHALLENGES IN SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASETHE STEM PIPELINENicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College Nicholas Massa is a full professor in the Laser Electro-Optics Technology Department at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Western New England College and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership/Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Massa is currently Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-ATE STEM PBL Project of the New England Board of Higher Education.Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University Michele Dischino is an assistant

Conference Session

Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten A Davis, Virginia Tech; Andrea M. Ogilvie P.E., Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech

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students in engineering. in 44th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. 2014. Madrid, Spain: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.23. Blash, L., et al., A Long & Leaky Pipeline: Improving transfer pathways for engineering students. 2012a, The RP Group: Sacramento, CA.24. Laanan, F.S., D.L. Jackson, and M. Darrow. Experiences of engineering transfer students: From community college to university. in 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 20, 2010 - June 23, 2010. 2010. Louisville, KY, United states: American Society for Engineering Education.25. Laanan, F.S., D.L. Jackson, and D.T. Rover. Engineering transfer students: Characteristics, experiences, and student outcomes

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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamid Y. Eydgahi, Bakersfield College; Julio R. Blanco, California State University, Bakersfield

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efforts to initiate engineering at CSUB by offering computer, electrical, and engineering sciences bachelor’s degrees by Fall 2012. Under his leadership, the school has grown from 1,100 full-time equivalent students (FTES) to almost 2,000 this year. The number of majors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) has doubled from 600 to near 1,200 currently. Blanco also co-chairs the CSUB graduation rate initiative, a CSU system project, part of a national effort to increase the number of students graduating within six years with a bachelor’s degree. Page 25.249.1 c

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Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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the winter break, the program introduces freshmen and risingsophomores to scientific research as well as a variety of topics and skills such as applying forinternships; introduction to the research process; university laboratory tours; library presentationon conducting literature reviews; the university transfer process for community college students;technical presentation skills; and project-specific topics including experimental methods,instrumentation, and data acquisition and error analysis. The paper provides a detaileddescription of the program curriculum, results from the Winter 2016 cohort, and key findings onprogram outcomes relating to changes in students’ engagement in their academics, confidence inapplying for and obtaining

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Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Tracy D Blake, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; David Dwight Sam PhD, Utah State University

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instruction. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, and IEEE.Tracy D Blake, Utah State University Tracy Blake, a lecturer in the Engineering and Technology Dept. at Utah State University, instructs engineering courses at the Tooele regional campus. His industry experience covers a variety of fields including component and system level design. He has several years of teaching experience in electrical engineering at Arizona and Utah State Universities. His current position involves assisting in the building of an educational program that will allow students to take engineering courses at locations remote to the main campus.Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University Dr. Wade Goodridge, Principal Lecturer in the Department of

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants

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-based), conducting in-depth interviews, and moderating focus groups. In 2004, Dr. Mobley joined the NSF-funded MIDFIELD interdisciplinary research team which is examining the educational pathways of engineering students at eleven universities. She is currently serving as Co-PI and is co-leading the qualitative component of a project on transfer students in engineering.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #7198A Descriptive Study of Engineering Transfer Students at Four Institutions:Comparing Lateral and Vertical Transfer PathwaysMs. Erin Shealy, Clemson University Erin Shealy is a master’s student studying Applied Sociology at Clemson University. Her bachelor’s degree is in Psychology, also from Clemson University. For the past two years, she has been serving as a graduate research assistant for an NSF-funded research project on engineering transfer students, part of the larger Multi Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD) study.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research

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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

Authors

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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Michigan. Her scholarship focuses on curriculum, teaching, and learning in higher education generally and in engineering programs. Her en- gineering education research focuses on organizational, curricular and instructional factors shape faculty work, students’ learning experiences, and students’ learning outcomes. Page 24.926.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Multiple Starting Lines: Pre-College Characteristics of Community College and Four-Year Institution Engineering StudentsAbstractIn response to the pressing need to expand and diversify the engineering