Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur F. Garcia Jr. P.E., Palm Beach State College

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Two Year College Division

Engineering Education, 2012An Innovative Approach to the Fundamentals of Engineering Course Arthur F. Garcia, Jr. Palm Beach State College Boca Raton, Florida Page 25.168.2Introduction For incoming freshman and sophomores, colleges offer a Fundamentals of Engineeringcourse. This course is generally an opportunity to motivate the incoming engineering students tocommit to engineering as a career. Most students have some uncertainties in pursuingengineering. Some incoming students are more mature than others and more mentally preparedfor the rigor and discipline of engineering courses. However, some students are not

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine; Tom McGlew, MATEC

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Two Year College Division

writing andcommunication are embedded into every job. Given the diversity of skills involved inevery electronic system application, it cannot be assumed that any communication will bechecked for technical accuracy after it leaves the originator. Therefore every employeemust meet the stand-alone capabilities for effective communication. Among therequirements identified by industry advisors are: Document results or log information. Work activities must include clearly written descriptions of how the system is supposed to work, the way it worked, and a clear summary of findings. Note taking and summaries are key components of this task. Give reports and make presentations

Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine

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Two Year College Division

a strongbackground in the fundamentals but also knowledge and skills such as how to work in teams,how to communicate better in writing and verbal presentation. Most industries support if notdemand a more systems orientation to courses and content. Several key facts were confirmed: ≠ Most technicians do not do detailed circuit analysis or design. ≠ Technicians primarily do service and maintenance work, equipment installation and troubleshooting, and a considerable amount of test and measurement. ≠ There is less need to troubleshoot and repair to the component level. While this is still a needed skill in some fields it is a small percentage of the overall need. Most repair is board swapping, module replacement

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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Two Year College Division

space to provide for adequate testing of prototypes.Another serious impediment to conducting research can be the lack of an Institutional ReviewBoard (IRB), whose involvement is fundamentally required for any research involving humansubjects.The philosophy of two-year colleges, with its focus on teaching, may also pose its ownchallenges to the inclusion of research in the curriculum. Talented individuals are often drawnspecifically to the community college due to their passion for instruction, as opposed to a driveto produce research. Some faculty members may not have had exposure to research, as not allwill hold doctoral degrees and some may have non-thesis master’s degrees. This lack ofbackground in formal research may make the idea of

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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Two Year College Division

Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical thinking capabilities. Page 23.226.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment of Innovative Environments that address Intellectual CuriosityAbstract The principle behind a cognitive competence, intrapersonal competence, interpersonalcompetence, and practical competence is extremely useful while creating interesting andinnovative environments that address intellectual curiosity. Utilizing real world problems as astimulus for student learning is

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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Two Year College Division

thephrase, “The Third Revolution” to describe the effects this convergence is having on variousdevelopments in life science research. Starting with a definition of the first revolution in thisfield, Molecular and Cellular Biology, the report then explains the second revolution, Genomics,and finally concludes this introduction to the new model with the following hypothesis: at thispoint in human history, the third revolution in this field is Convergence.Convergence is not simply a transfer of tool sets from one science discipline to another. Butrather, it is the use of fundamentally different conceptual approaches from physical science andengineering being applied to biological research with a reciprocal influencing of the physicalsciences and

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

(STEM) disciplines since robotics is one of the most popularconcepts9, 10 for K-12 and freshman students.This paper describes a learning module design, implementation, and evaluation, effectivelyintegrating the advanced research experience at a four-year college into the engineering designprocess with legacy cycle for a freshman level robotics class at a two-year college. The moduleutilizes the intensive research experience to develop the associated fundamental concepts anduses robotics engineering team projects to guide students through the engineering design processto solve the practical challenges. The design process allows students to gain fundamentalengineering design methodologies, technical knowledge and hands-on skills in robotics

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Chitra N. Javdekar, Massachusetts Bay Community College; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Marina Bograd

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

subjects that might presenta struggle. Peer and professional tutors are available through the academic achievement centerto assist with technical subjects as well as writing and math. The college caters to workingadults by offering courses after typical working hours, on weekends and online. Facultymembers teaching online curriculum have undergone training and use universal course designtechniques (S. Burgstahler, 2006 16) to cater to all learning styles.Student advising starts prior to entering the program. Students meet with a designated Collegeand Career Navigator who is the first point of contact for each student participating in thiscertificate program. The College and Career Navigator assists with the application process andremains a point

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Two Year College Division

graduates. Forexample, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) expects civil engineeringbaccalaureate graduates to have breadth as well as depth in multiple fields of civil engineering.For advanced programs (graduate programs), very little is specified in regard to programoutcomes.Tuning is complementary to ABET criteria for evaluating engineering programs in that Tuningseeks to define in specific and assessable terms the elements of the PEOs and the programoutcomes with corresponding levels of achievement at critical milestones in the education of anengineer (or other professional). The Tuning process also calls upon disciplines to write DegreeProfiles in terms of general and discipline-specific competencies their students will achieve

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; William Miller, University of Missouri; Matthew Schmidt, University of Missouri; Matthew Easter, University of Missouri; Rose Marra, University of Missouri

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Two Year College Division

may play in learning environments:cases as exemplars (analogies), cases as remindings (case-based reasoning), case studymethod, cases as problems to solve (problem-based), and student constructed cases. Inthe six course curricular sequence we have designed, we provide three different kinds ofcases. Each course consists of approximately ten learning modules which can contain anyor all of these three kinds of cases. Learners approach the modules by studying anexemplar-type case, which we term a ‘primary scenario.’ The primary scenario is acompletely worked-out case which describes a particular application of radiation or anexample RPT activity. Examples of the former from the Radiation Fundamentals courseinclude the scenarios: “Using radiation

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hill, Weber State University

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Two Year College Division

regarding the development of differentiated criteria and has supported efforts todevelop such criteria.The concept of differentiated criteria is not new to ABET. The Applied Science AccreditationCommission (ASAC) of ABET, Inc. has had differentiated criteria for many years. ASACaccredits programs in safety, industrial hygiene, health physics, environmental health & safety,industrial or quality management, and surveying or geomatics. The way in which ASAC makesthe distinction between associate degree and baccalaureate degree programs will also bediscussed later in this paper.In reviewing the 2008-2009 TAC of ABET criteria1 for technology programs, it became clearthat there were at least two of the nine general criteria that would have to be

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline College; Tessa Alice Olmstead, Highline College; Judy Mannard PE, Highline Community College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

/Pacific Islander 1% Multiracial 13% Other 2% White/Caucasian 35%* This data excludes 27 international students.Our engineering students are also significantly underprepared for study in engineering. Lessthan 20% percent took calculus as their first math course at Highline College, as shown in Figure1. Over half of these students started in Algebra 2 or below, requiring at least a full year of matheducation before they could enroll in calculus.ResultsThe first calculus course is generally considered the starting point to a four-year engineeringdegree. It lays the fundamentals for engineering core classes, as well as other commonengineering

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Richardson, College of the Canyons; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Joseph Gerda, College of the Canyons; Floyd Moos, College of the Canyons

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Two Year College Division

permanentlylost to the program. The problem may even undermine the efforts of department chairs to build asuccessful program or even to sustain the success of one. Arguing that some programs live ordie on the success of their adjuncts is not overreaching.Part-time faculty members have long been fundamental to the operation of community colleges.According to the American Association of Community Colleges, part-time teachers compose upto 66 percent of the public community college faculty across the nation.1 Even though we knowthem more as a shadowy campus presence, operating more in the background than theforeground, we have come to understand how collectively crucial they are to the education of ourstudents. And, when we think about it, we know how

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

heat treatment of metals.CAM Programming: Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) is computer-based software usedby machinist to manufacture various products. Students are exposed to concepts of CAMsoftware to generate programs for CNC machine tools. The generated tool path is verified usinga graphic simulation prior to running program.CNC Programming: CNC programming introduces students to CNC machine programmingconcepts, set-up, and operation. Instruction will also include coordinate systems, processplanning, cutter compensation, and canned cycles. Students will write and edit programs for theCNC machines using G and M codes.South Texas Technical Colleges

Conference Session

Two-Year to Four-Year Transfer Programs: Best Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Mark Norman Highum, Bay College

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Two Year College Division

document is sent from that device to a printer, the introduction of themechanical system creates an overall system of mechatronics.At Bay College, this wide range of included technologies is what made mechatronics such apromising solution to the problem of finding a single degree program that could meet the needsof diverse employer groups. During its first year as a certificate program, coursework includedCircuit Fundamentals I, Fluid Power, Basic Machine Tool Operation, Basic Process Control,Electrical Machinery and Controls, and Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers.Furthermore, thanks to the successful grant application with Michigan Tech, as well as othergrants the college has successfully obtained, the mechatronics lab is now stocked

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul B Golter, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Jeffrey Laube, Kenai Peninsula College

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Two Year College Division

stood out as something coloring. Length of the system isworth investigating as an additional outcome. Our two feet.external evaluator has at multiple times over the roughlysix months of the project, as of the time of writing this,expressed pleasant surprise at how well we are working together. It is apparently very common,according to her, for collaborations between 2 and 4 year institutions to break down veryquickly. The question then is how have we managed to foster this collaboration? What pitfalls orhurdles have we avoided? One possibility is that institutional and program cultures, expectations,and emphasis are different enough that they can be difficult to get past in order to make thecollaboration work. In this paper

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shen Liu, West Kentucky Community and Technical College

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Two Year College Division

approach in the sophomore-level three-credit hour Statics course,emphasis is placed on designing models, data analysis, technical writing, and classroom Page 24.710.5presentations. Assigning different projects can prevent groups from sharing the same ideas, but itis hard to guarantee that different projects have the same level of effectiveness andinterestingness. The same project is assigned to all groups in the spring of 2014. The project isdesigned to encompass almost all the fundamental topics covered in the course and to address aset of course competencies as listed in the course syllabus. The project is related to the designand analysis of a

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

Autonomous Navigation with flowcharts, engineering design, team-based design. 16 12c. *Robotics Competition Engineering design, technical writing, design report. and Report 17 Final Report Due Academic success project (discussed below)1 Legend for Labs: Plain text = Analysis; Italic = Modelling (Virtual or Physical); Bold = Experimental;*Bold = On-campus expt.Table 1 outlines the set of lab experiments developed for the Introduction to Engineeringcourse. As part of the CALSTEP online laboratory curriculum, the Introduction toEngineering course is developed to best achieve the thirteen objectives for engineeringeducational

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

(1,53) = 2.53 , p = .014 ], skill in how to give an effective oral presentation [ t (1,51) = 2.06 , p = .044 ], and skill in science writing [ t (1,52) = 2.03 , p = .047 ]. The most significant gain is onunderstanding how scientists work on real problems.Table 6. Results of survey of student perception of skills and knowledge for academic and research success. Response Scale: 1 – Strongly Disagree; 2 – Disagree; 3 – Neutral; 4 – Agree; 5 – Strongly Agree. Question: Tell us how much you agree with each of the Average Response following statements. Pre Post Change I have a clear career path. 3.79

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Peter Vogt, Salt Lake Community College

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Two Year College Division

. Page 26.465.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Design of a Hybrid Classroom Structure for Teaching Engineering Strength of Materials at a Community CollegeAbstractTeaching fundamentals of engineering Strength of Materials (also called Mechanics of Materials)is challenging as a semester long course because there are nine chapters of required content. Thisarticle discusses new hybrid classroom methods and survey results implemented in the spring of2015 at Salt Lake Community College. The hybrid classroom uses lecture videos, which studentsare to review outside of class, to present theoretical principles and simple examples; this allows formore class time to spend working on more complicated

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Two Year College Division

particularfield of engineering, knowledge, skills, and attitudes that may or may not be applicable to adifferent field of engineering.A Proposed SolutionAn apparent solution is the development of three independent courses, each intended to serve aparticular purpose and a particular audience. The three courses are: An overview of engineering and science, An introduction to engineering and development of fundamental skills, and Page 22.700.10 Development of fundamental discipline-specific skills.The broad content of each of these courses is discussed in the following sections. The first twocourses could be offered by both

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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Two Year College Division

bachelor’s degree andgraduation in a timely manner. Presented in this paper is the basis for a highly structuredstatewide Associate of Science in Engineering Science (ASES) degree program, and the mannerin which baccalaureate programs build upon this degree to complete the expectations for abaccalaureate engineering degree. The degree, which has been implemented in Texas, representsthe culmination of several years of effort to align coursework among multiple institutions.Further, the degree represents a significantly new approach to curricula development. Theparadigm is changed from viewing curricula as a number of courses to viewing curricula as thedevelopment of a necessary body of knowledge for a discipline. As of this writing, the ASESdegree has

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Two Year College Division

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

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David I. Spang, Burlington County College

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Two Year College Division

Paper ID #10454Curriculum Design and Assessment to Address the Industry Skills GapDr. David I. Spang, Burlington County College Dr. David Spang is the Provost at Burlington County College in Pemberton, NJ. Prior to being named Provost, Dr. Spang served as Vice President of Academic Programs and as Dean of the Science, Math- ematics, 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 Management. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Spang spent nearly twenty years in R&D and business development

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College

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Two Year College Division

2006-789: A DISTRIBUTED LEARNING NETWORK UNITES THE MID-SOUTHGeoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College Geoffrey A. Wood is the Program Coordinator of the Manufacturing program and an assistant professor in the Engineering Technologies department at Southwest TN Community College in Memphis Tennessee. Degrees include a M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering Technology and a M.A. in Technical Writing from the University of Memphis. Mr. Wood worked in the inspection and NDE field prior to joining the teaching staff at Southwest. In addition to his academic career, he maintains a regular consulting business. Mr. Wood was awarded the State of Tennessee's Innovations in Distance

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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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

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

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

student surveys show overwhelmingly positive studentperception of the effects of this model of classroom environment on their learning experience.These results indicate that the interactive classroom environment developed using wirelessTablet PCs has the potential to be a more effective teaching pedagogy compared to traditionalinstructor-centered teaching environments, and should be applied to math, science and otherengineering courses with traditionally high attrition rates.1. INTRODUCTIONThe fundamental problem addressed by this study is the lack of active participation of studentsduring classroom instruction in the traditional 50-minute lecture setting. Studies have longshown that the traditional instructor-centered lecture format is an

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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Two Year College Division

the categories, the average response is between “Quite a bit” and “A lot.”Question: How much did you learn about each the following? Average Rating1 – Nothing; 2 – A little; 3 – Some; 4 – Quite a bit; 5 – A lot. 2011 2012 Performing research 4.7 4.8 Designing/performing an experiment 4.7 4.9 Creating a work plan 4.5 4.8 Working as a part of a team 4.8 4.8 Writing a technical report 4.5 4.8 Creating a poster presentation

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Shaw, Museum of Science, Boston; Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College

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Two Year College Division

fields, importance of hands on LOTS! Industry and college want/need to break stereo types Number of fields of engineering and what engineering is really about! Gained a better understanding of what engineers do and became aware of all the supports out there. Math/science is only about half of what the day to day job is. Problem- solving and team work area slo very important along with communication and writing skills. How to encourage many more to enter this field. That engineering answers problems in all facets of modern life. Engineering is art! Engineering is the application of math and science to serve humanity. State and national efforts to improve participation in science and

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College, Santa Clara

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Two Year College Division

from ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer)website assist.org.5in the required courses in mathematics and physics for both CSU and UC schools, the samecannot be said regarding engineering courses. Graphics and Surveying tend to be required byCSUs but not the UCs. There is not a single engineering course that is required or recommendedby all the institutions. Even the requirement for Statics, which is fundamental in the study ofCivil Engineering, has deviations in two of the institutions: UC Berkeley combines it with