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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline Van Ingen-Dunn, Arizona State University

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Center hours, most studentsseem to do well with the 8-5 hours that are covered by METS staff from Monday through Friday.We want to recognize and thank the Fulton School of Engineering for their provision of excellentspace and recognize that the METS project and program would be almost impossible to runwithout the space.References1 Anderson-Rowland, M.R., “A First Year Engineering Student Survey to Assist Recruitment and Retention,” 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, Salt Lake City, Utah, November, 1996, pp. 372-376.2. Anderson-Rowland, M.R., Vanis, M., Zerby, D., Banks, D., and Matar, B., “METS Pilot Program: A Community College/University Collaboration to Recruit Underrepresented Minority Students into Engineering,” American

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Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; James Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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AC 2007-664: A COLLEGE-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPING ALEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLETECHNOLOGYChih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University Dr. Chih-Ping Yeh received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Taiwan, M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Currently, he is the Director & Chair of the Division of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Prior to joining WSU, he worked as a research engineer in defense industry.Gene Liao, Wayne State UniversityJames Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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AC 2007-248: THE NEED FOR A QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM FORCOMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDan Dimitriu, San Antonio College DAN G. DIMITRIU has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for over 20 years. He has been involved with several engineering societies and was elected vice-chair of the Two-Year College Division of ASEE in 2005. He has been the coordinator of the Engineering Program at San Antonio College since 2001. His research interests are: alternative fuels, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education.Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College JERRY O’CONNOR has been teaching physics (and a few engineering courses) at San Antonio College

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Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Non-Hispanic, Black 5 Non-Hispanic, Black 4 Non-Hispanic, Black 2 Non-Hispanic, White 10 Non-Hispanic, White 8 Non-Hispanic, White 7 Page 12.1426.3 Table 1: Enrollment analysisProgram ResultsAll 29 students completing the 2006 Program received productive grades and college credit forboth courses. The distribution of final grades is presented in Table 2 below. Productive A B C D F W

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Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

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assistance to maximize student learning. This interactive classroom environment iscreated using wireless Tablet PCs and a software application, NetSupport School, which allowsvarious levels of interactions between the instructor and the students during lectures, therebyenhancing the instructor’s ability to systematically monitor and control individual studentprogress, assess their understanding through instant surveys, and provide immediate feedbackand assistance through the wireless network. Results from two separate controlled studies of theimplementation of this model of interactive teaching and learning in sophomore-levelEngineering Dynamics courses show statistically significant positive impact on studentperformance. Additionally, results of

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Two Year Colleges

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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AC 2007-1840: IMPROVING ADJUNCT TEACHING THROUGH FACILITATORDEVELOPMENTRussell Richardson, College of the Canyons Russell Richardson has been a community college teacher for 31 years. He began teaching at College of the Canyons in 1987 and is currently a professor in the department of political science. Throughout his career he has been involved in a variety of teaching improvement and professional development programs. Along with Joseph Gerda, he developed the Associate Program for Adjunct Instructors in 1989 and is currently the director of the College of the Canyons Institute of Teaching and Learning. He joined the CREATE program in 2002. Richardson received his B.S. and M.A

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Robert Alldredge, Allan Hancock College

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AC 2007-651: CONDUCTING SKILLS ANALYSIS BETWEEN INDUSTRY,COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES FOR CURRICULAR REVISIONAND GAP ANALYSISKathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons Kathleen Alfano is the principal investigator of CREATE’s NSF ATE Regional Center for Information and Manufacturing Technologies and has led CREATE (California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technical Education) since its development in 1996-1997. She previously served as Dean of Academic Computing and Professional Programs and is currently also a faculty member at College of the Canyons. She has over twenty years of successful faculty leadership, administration of technical departments, and leadership of

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Duane Akroyd, North Carolina State University

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AC 2007-481: COMMUNITY COLLEGE TEACHER PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENTTheodore Branoff, North Carolina State University Ted Branoff is an associate professor of Graphic Communications in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education at North Carolina State University. A member of ASEE since 1987, Ted is currently the chair of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE. His research interests include spatial visualization in undergraduate students and the effects of online instruction for preparing community college educators.Duane Akroyd, North Carolina State University Duane Akroyd is a professor in the Department of Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State

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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