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- 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Warren Hill, Weber State University
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AC 2008-1207: ACCREDITATION OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAMSWarren Hill, Weber State University Page 13.139.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Accreditation of Engineering Technology Associate Degree ProgramsAbstractThis paper discusses the issues involved with the accreditation of associate degree programs inEngineering Technology, and in particular looks at the concept of having differentiated criteriafor such programs. The current Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc. criteriamakes no distinction between associate degree and baccalaureate degree programs in the generalcriteria. The author would like to suggest some ways that the
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- Two year Colleges
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- 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Ellen Hause, AACC; Benjamin Taylor, Seminole Community College
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12.1445.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The MentorLinks Program: Advancing Technological Education Program of the AACCIn the spring of 1998, a small but forward looking group of community college faculty andadministrators from across the United States gathered in Seattle, Washington for the openingreception of the Working Connections program. For the next several days they met on thecampus of Microsoft’s Cooperate headquarters in Redmond where they became betteracquainted, exchanged ideas, and made plans for how they would proceed forward over the nexttwo years. Chosen through a competitive grant application process, the meeting participants werefrom thirteen different community colleges but
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- Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges
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- 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; David Walton Gardner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; James K. Nelson, University of Texas, Tyler
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AC 2011-2251: ”TUNING” ENGINEERING PROGRAMS IN THE CON-TEXT OF ABET ACCREDITATIONMary Eileen Smith, Ph.D., Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Mary E. Smith has been employed with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board since 1987 and now serves as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Academic Planning and Policy. She is responsible for the administration and management of matters related to the Board’s higher education academic planning and policy functions, and she provides leadership on key projects, reports, and studies that cut across divisions of the agency. She has taught at The University of Texas at Austin, and she currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s
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- Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II
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- 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Cecelia M. Wigal, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Tim MeGhee, Chattanooga State Community College
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freshmen team designprojects, are continued throughout the curriculum, and culminate in a two-semesterinterdisciplinary design project. The study of the computer and its applications is integratedthroughout the curriculum.The engineering curriculum is highly structured. The typical engineering course has one or moreprerequisites which must be completed before enrollment in that engineering course. It is Page 22.1200.3expected that laboratory courses are taken simultaneously with the related lecture course. Typicalcourses of study have been prepared for each discipline program and may be obtained from thefaculty advisor. Many of the faculty who
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- Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research
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- 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College
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public University to submit and jointlymanage a CIPAIR NASA grant to improve the engineering curricula at both institutions bycreating new NASA inspired courses and/or improving existing courses by infusing them withNASA related materials. An important part of the program was the development of anundergraduate research plan that would help students relate their NASA sponsored research withSTEM course content and classroom activities. This partnership was intended to utilize thedominant transfer path for engineering students from our two-year college to complete theirbachelor degree.An intense advertising campaign was initiated in the early spring of 2010 to recruit qualifiedstudents and the results exceeded our expectations by a substantial
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- Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline
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- 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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. Vincent Joseph Amuso Sr., Rochester Institute of Technology Vincent Joseph Amuso, Sr., has been with the Rochester Institute of Technology since June 1, 1999. He is a faculty member in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. He came to RIT with nearly 10 years of de- fense industry-related engineering design and development experience. He has worked as a government contractor with Lockheed Martin and the Sensis Corporation. He has also worked with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and the U.S. Army Missile Defense Agency as a consultant and researcher. He continues to be involved with the AFRL in the areas of radar systems analysis, deep ground penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar used for three dimensional
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- 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College; Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College
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can accommodate extracurricular activities and work programs. This is particularly important for nontraditional students that have families and need to work to support them.- The community college, with its flexible hours and emphasis on teaching instead of research, can attract a larger variety of practicing professionals from the engineering field that have a wealth of industry related experience and willingness to share it with students. This provides students with the chance to interact with practicing professionals from the industry and learn about real engineering problems.- The availability of remedial courses makes community colleges a better option for attracting and retaining students with underdeveloped
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- Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research
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- 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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AC 2012-4601: ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE DEGREE PROGRAM TO FA-CILITATE TRANSFER OF STUDENTS FROM TWO-YEAR TO FOUR-YEAR ENGINEERING PROGRAMSDr. James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler James K. Nelson received a bachelor’s of civil engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1974. He received the master’s of science and doctorate of philosophy degrees in civil engineering from the University of Houston. During his graduate study, Nelson specialized in structural engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in four states, a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and
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- 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College
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the National Science Foundation and by the Alamo Community College DistrictFoundation.Brief History of the ProgramThe original design of our program was geared toward well-prepared high school students inthe 10th and 11th grades, many of whom would have participated in the San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP). EDGE would introduce them to college levelcourse work as a learning community, provide activities to help them develop independentlearning and teamwork skills, and thereby increase their likelihood of earning a collegedegree in engineering, science, math, or other related field. The learning community courseswere Introduction to Engineering and College Algebra.Despite the warm reception to the program shown by teachers
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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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Paper ID #8446EDGE 2013 Program – A Redesign Work in ProgressDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College DAN G. DIMITRIU is a licensed Professional Engineer that holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Engineering and an M.B.A. in International Economic Relations. He has been practicing engineering internationally since 1970 in various industries and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years at various institutions. In 2001, he joined San Antonio College full-time as the Coordinator of its Engineering Program. He has been involved with several engineering societies and became a member of the Two-year College
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- Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College
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the sixthiteration of the program. This project has been supported by grants from the Department ofEducation (MSEIP P120A050080) and Alamo Community College District Foundation.Brief History of the ProgramThe original version of the EDGE program was intended to serve well-prepared high schoolstudents in the 10th and 11th grades who would have participated in the San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP) 2. EDGE was designed to introduce them to collegelevel course work as a learning community and provide activities to help them developindependent learning and teamwork skills with the goal of increasing their likelihood of earninga college degree in engineering, science, math, or other related field. The learning communitycourses
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- Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II
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- 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College
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personnel dedicated full-time to the MESA Center at our college havebeen supported by grants from the National Science Foundation or Department of Education, andthis support has been essential to implement the full spectrum of program components. TheMESA model includes learning community clusters of linked math, science and engineeringclasses, academic enrichment workshops to supplement student learning, tutoring and mentoringassistance, participation in national science and engineering related organizations, opportunitiesfor NSF S-STEM and other scholarships, and an Industry Advisory Board.MESA Center activities include:1) Development of individual student academic plans for MESA students;2) Assistance in applying for S-STEM or other science and
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- Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges
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- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College
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Paper ID #11110EDGE 2014 Program – The Formula that WorksDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years at various institutions. In 2001, he joined San Antonio College full-time as the Coordinator of its Engineering program. He has been involved with several engineering societies and became a member of the Two-year College Division of ASEE in 2002. His research interests are in alternative fuels, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education.Prof. Jerry O’Connor, San Antonio College Jerry O’Connor has
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- 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech
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. Energy seminars - Energy seminars, part of our weekly Growth and Energy Seminars, consist of presentations by UC Berkeley’s faculty on cutting-edge energy-related topics. The purpose of the energy seminars is to expose students to the diversity of professional career opportunities for people with science and engineering training. iii. Career day - The program hosts at least one industry-sponsored tour. Career day provides exposure to practicing scientists and engineers and the opportunity to learn about science and engineering careers in private industry and research laboratories. iv. Leadership day - TTE REU students participate in one leadership event. Leadership day provides students hands-on
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- Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II
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- 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Kevin Lemoine, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; James K. Nelson, University of Texas, Tyler; Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington; James Sells, San Jacinto College, Central Campus; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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offeringan associate’s degree program in mechanical engineering-related technologies to nominate acommittee representative. Seventeen universities and seven community colleges nominatedrepresentatives. The final Committee1 was comprised of 24 engineering, math, or science deansand designees from across the state.As of February 16, 2011, signatory institutions in the Mechanical Engineering Transfer Compactinclude 14 universities (representing 82 percent of Texas public universities offering thebachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering) and 30 community and technical colleges ordistricts (representing 75 percent of Texas public community or technical colleges offeringlower-division engineering courses). Such participation has eliminated the need for
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- Retention Strategies in Action Part I
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- Amelito Enriquez, Canada College
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Caltrans personnelwho served as lecturers and project advisors for the participating students.Although SEI was successful in increasing student knowledge and understanding of specificengineering topics and of the engineering profession, it did not achieve its goal of recruitingadditional students to major in engineering. Results of pre- and post-program surveys askingstudents to rate their confidence that “the Summer Engineering Institute will help in selecting anappropriate Engineering major” show that student confidence level dropped significantly afterthe program. One possible contributing factor could be the overemphasis given to CivilEngineering and other related fields brought about by the partnership with Caltrans whosepersonnel have
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- Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University
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Page 15.460.3characterized by an academically-challenging curriculum with hands-on, design-oriented ECASE Program Objectives Provide 15 community college transfer students will full and 6 students with partial NSF scholarships to complete their engineering degrees Increase the diversity of our incoming ECASE Faculty engineering students by working with Mentors: to discuss community college academic advisors to ECASE Social issues related to the target potential candidates
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- Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College
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Education, 2015 The creation of a Biomedical Engineering Technology program for the 2020sAbstractMany biomedical engineering technology or similarly named programs were spawned in theearly 1970s. These programs, at the two-year college level, were a response to the demand fortechnicians to deal with the rapidly expanding base of medical equipment that was beingdeployed primarily in hospitals. Although there were many electronics engineering technologyprograms at the community college level, it was thought that the need for technicians skilled inthe medical equipment area would be more successfully satisfied through a specific program thattaught the fundamentals of electronics and then concentrated on
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- 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah F. Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University
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theyare admitted to the university. Eight other academic departments agreed to be a part of this directadmission program and have been reviewing transfer students for direct admission for the pasttwo years. Engineering continues to be one of the most active partners in this effort. Five of theseven Scholars beginning in the 2010-11 academic year were directly admitted in to the electricalengineering program through this agreement.In addition to our direct contacts with community colleges with S-STEM programs, we have alsobeen involved our state’s Council for Engineering and Related Technical Education. This is avoluntary organization of post-secondary educational institutions within the state who areinvolved with some portion of the total
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- 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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science, and engineering faculty, as well as curriculum developed by students as part oftheir summer research activities. Further curricular enhancements are planned for math,engineering, and computer science by incorporating NASA-related content as in-classdemonstrations, projects and hands-on exercises.The intersegmental cross-enrollment program that allows sophomore community college studentsto participate in upper-division and capstone design courses in a four-year school has beensuccessful in it goal to improve student preparation for transfer and increase their confidence insucceeding in a four-year institution. The student participants also indicated that the program hashelped solidify their choice of major.The Summer Research Internship
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- California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives
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- Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College
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. Page 24.716.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Community College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship ProgramAbstractEfforts to remain competitive internationally in engineering and technology require a significantincrease in the number of STEM graduates in the United States. A recent report prepared by thePresident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology states that currently less than fortypercent of students entering college to pursue a STEM career end up completing a STEM degree,citing that students typically leave the STEM field in the first two years of their program
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- David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Edem G Tetteh, Rowan College at Burlington County
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Paper ID #20221Two-Year College and University Collaboration in Creating Advanced Man-ufacturing Curricula and ProgramsDr. David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County Dr. David Spang is the Sr. Vice President & Provost at Rowan College at Burlington County in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Prior to being named Sr. Vice President & Provost, Dr. Spang served as Interim President, Provost, Vice President of Academic Programs and as Dean of the Science, Mathematics, and Technology division. Dr. Spang holds a PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering and a MBA degree, with a concentration in Innovation and Technology
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- 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Sharon Marie Rouse, Mitchell Community College
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programcompletion activity was used—Classification of Instruction Program codes. According to theAssociation and the institutions housing those programs, all the 2-year technology programsaccredited by ATMAE were aligned with one of ten two-digit series CIP codes with the majorityreporting that their programs were aligned with the Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields CIP codes. All these Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fieldsprograms were also aligned with one of eleven different 4-digit series CIP codes with over aquarter of those programs being aligned with the Industrial Production Technologies/TechniciansCIP codes and almost as many being aligned with the Drafting/Design EngineeringTechnologies/Technician CIP codes
Teaching the Internet of Things (IoT) Using Universally Available Raspberry Pi and Arduino Platforms
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ofhuman commerce and endeavors.Presently, formal education in these innovative Internet applications is lacking. Cisco, through itsonline Networking Academy offers a short overview course about the Internet of Everything(IoE) and has announced its intent to offer more online courses about the topic. However, accessis restricted to colleges that belong to the Cisco networking academy program. IBM has recentlylaunched its Internet of Things Foundation that offers business and industry partners, as well as,educational entities, development tools to implement and test out their IoT applications with thefurther ability to visually display acquired data in real time. However, as of yet, most collegesthat offer engineering technology education at the
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- Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College
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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Toward a Comprehensive Online Transfer Engineering Curriculum: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Online Engineering Circuits Laboratory CourseAbstractCommunity college engineering transfer programs prepare a significant percentage of graduatesfrom university engineering programs, yet face challenges from a fragmented lower divisionengineering core curriculum, limited scheduling options for students, and sometimes marginalenrollment patterns. In addition, most small college programs are run by one permanent faculty,making it difficult to provide lower-division engineering courses with the breadth and frequencyneeded for effective and timely transfer
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- Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College
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(MSEIP #P120A050080) from the Department ofEducation.Brief History of the ProgramThe original program was geared toward well-prepared high school students in the 10th and11th grades who would have participated in the San Antonio Pre-freshman EngineeringProgram (PREP)2. EDGE introduced them to college level course work as a learningcommunity and provided activities to help them develop independent learning and teamworkskills with the goal of increasing their likelihood of earning a college degree in engineering,science, math, or other related field. The learning community courses offered wereIntroduction to Engineering and College Algebra. The number of applicants eligible forCollege Algebra was disappointingly low (32%). This prompted us to
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- Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Debra Banks, Consultant
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place until thespring semester of 2004. Shortly before the MCCCD Director, also with both a Bachelor andMaster’s degree related to engineering, was selected, the ASU PI became seriously ill for a fewmonths. Throughout the first two years, the district-level leadership pulled back, as they hadindicated they would, and placed program management in the hands of assistants and the leadliaison. In addition, since each METS Director answered to a different supervisor whose goalswere not the same, collaboration became very difficult.The five community colleges each have their own administration and way of doing things, so theMETS administration was much more complicated than just a collaboration of a university andone community college. After a two
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- Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis, San Antonio College/Alamo Colleges
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undergraduate research projects related to greentechnologies for the entire duration of this partnership. Our college made a commitment to 1) encourage our STEM faculty to attend Re-Energize professional development opportunities to learn and include green energy educational modules into our STEM curriculum; 2) seek space to establish a "start-up green lab" on our campus with Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program pass through funding from the four-year institution so that faculty can conduct classroom demonstrations and our students can perform undergraduate research. This initiative is meant to diversify and continue our undergraduate research program as we include our William R. Sinkin Eco Centro
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- Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F. Lewis, William R. Sinkin Eco Centro, San Antonio College; Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University
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support our students and encourage them to seek successful careers in STEM and green energy-related fields and to 4) Participate in on-going evaluation and research efforts related to this program.Undergraduate research programs at four-year institutions have been widely reported to increaseretention, and our results indicate that two-year institutions can also initiate successful programs.This paper describes a work in progress and presents detailed results of the first year partnershipbetween San Antonio College and Texas State University. Together we will develop a newdirection for summer undergraduate research programs at our community college, offerrecommendations, and outline future plans.The Demand for Engineers Keeps
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focuses on the fifthiteration of the program. This project has been supported by grants from the Department ofEducation (MSEIP P120A050080) and Alamo Community College District Foundation.Brief History of the ProgramThe original version of this summer bridging program was intended to serve well-prepared highschool students in the 10th and 11th grades who would have participated in the San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP) 2. EDGE was designed to introduce them to collegelevel course work as a learning community and provide activities to help them developindependent learning and teamwork skills with the goal of increasing their likelihood of earninga college degree in engineering, science, math, or other related field. The learning