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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Anne K Flesher, Truckee Meadows Community College; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno

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thatwe hope to offer in late 2024. During the virtual workshop, we believe we could share thelessons learned and best practices for two-year college administrators, faculty, and staff who arecontemplating a RED proposal. We would also like to connect interested proposal writers withexperts in engineering education research and organizational change, two fields that are notcustomarily represented on two-year college campuses. Based on the RED Webinar series thatwas delivered in 2017 [27] and adapted specifically for the two-year college context, we plan toexpand access to the RED funding mechanism through online resources. Because two-yearcolleges represent a key component in the engineering education ecosystem, we hope to supportand encourage

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Martinez, Growth Sector; Gabe Hanzel-Sello; Ivanna Abreu

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as an added support and proactive practice.Employer Relations ● Providing local University research experiences as a tool to not only provide students with a structured technical/research experience but also explore transfer pathways. ● Exploring research placement at national labs. Exploring an informal apprenticeship in which students return for multiple paid internships (even sometimes PT work during academic year) while they complete their degree.Through this paper, best practices from the STEM Core Expansion Alliance can be shared toenhance opportunities to engage and prepare students for competitive STEM pathways via paidsummer internships. Financial Support Recognizing that community college program

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STEM Education at the Two-Year College

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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studying Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in ASU’s College of Global Futures. She practices Socio-technical Integration Research as an embedded social scientist who collaboratively works with technologists (STEM students, STEM faculty, and Tech Com- panies) to increase reflexive learning during technology development and implementation to pro-actively consider the impact of technology decisions on local communities and society at large. This work creates spaces and processes to explore technology innovation and its consequences in an open, inclusive and timely way.Mara Lopez, Arizona State University Dr. Mara Lopez is a full-time Research

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Two-Year College Division Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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meetings with mentors; extensiveprofessional development seminars; formal research training including daily reflection journals,poster presentations and technical writing with a faculty member. REU students completed twodeliverables: a research project and an open-ended Arduino engineering design project. Initially,students chose their research projects from a list of available opportunities. Once a match wassecured, students worked in their research labs daily with their graduate student and facultymentors.A list of students’ engineering research projects included:1. Accelerating Operations on Graph Neural Network2. Computational Design of Single Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction3. Information Theory to Pinpoint Causal Links

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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with states and institutions to improve student success in college, particularly with Complete College America (CCA). At University of Colorado Boulder, Heidi is a Senior Research Associate in Ethnography & Evaluation Research, a center focused on STEM education. She recently was the project lead in transforming teaching evaluation practices in the College of Arts & Sciences. A fourth-generation Coloradoan and educator, she lives in Denver with her husband, two college-aged children, and rescue dog.Mr. Nick Stites, University of Colorado Boulder Nick Stites is the Director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at CU Boulder and an instructor with the Integrated Design Engineering program. Dr

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STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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

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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris A. O'Riordan-Adjah, Durham Technical Community College

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obtained in labs, research facilities, and testing facilities, allowing students toactually apply what they learn in the classroom to practical real-life situations. For example, inthe architectural technology program, students can design their dream home with all the requiredspecifications and codes, and it will be ready to build whenever the opportunity presents itself.As another example, students taking carpentry and welding courses can actually build andconstruct something of practical use, and not just test it to see if it works, like you would in alaboratory situation at a four-year institution. All of this allows students to actually experiencethe things they want to do, not just visualize or theorize about them.Table 4 shows the required

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Pamela J Silvers, Mentor-Connect/Florence Darlington; Buffy Quinn, University of Southern Mississippi

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AbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program isspecifically designed to support workforce development that primarily takes place in technicianeducation programs offered at two-year colleges across the nation. Even so, NSF grant funding isinfrequently or never pursued by most two-year colleges even though there is a need for fundingto support high-cost, high-impact STEM programs. Since two-year colleges are focused onteaching vs. research, securing grants is seldom, if ever, required or recognized as important aspart of employee performance review, tenure, and promotion processes at these institutions. As aresult, technical/STEM faculty members typically do not have prior grant experience, nor dothey

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeyoung Woo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2005.[2] California State University (CSU) (2019). “Graduation Rates for First-Time and TransferStudents Reach All-Time Highs.” Available: https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/Graduation-Rates-for-First-Time-and-Transfer-Students-Reach-All-Time-Highs.aspx, [Accessed: Feb. 07, 2024].[3] G. Crisp and A. Nora. “Hispanic Student Success: Factors Influencing the Persistence andTransfer Decisions of Latino Community College Students Enrolled in Developmental Education.”Res. In Higher Education, vol. 51, pp. 175-194, 2010.[4] P. A. Pérez and M. Ceja. “Building a Latina/o Student Transfer Culture: Best Practices andOutcomes in Transfer to Universities.” J. Hispanic Higher

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Conner; Olivia Anne DiSilvestre; Marcus Lee Ridlehuber, Clemson University; Louise Averitt, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

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impact, and this project, you know, impacting others in a good way. So, I think that will be the best defining moment.”DiscussionThough SPECTRA is in early practice, several important themes are already shown in dataderived from student interviews. The most compelling of these findings is how students interactwith their cohort and the overall benefits they feel they are getting from participating in theprogram. These findings correlate strongly with research done by similar transfer programs.Interacting and making connections with others is a vital part of the college experience andsomething that is particularly important for transfer students, who may have a more difficult timeforming connections than students who began at a four-year

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STEM Education at the Two-Year College

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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scienceprograms and, ultimately, achievement of bachelor’s degrees (Wang, 2020). The need for financialsupport, resulting in most community college students needing to work while pursuing degrees, iscited as a major barrier for many community college students (Mendoza, 2009), particularly forthose who could benefit from full-time enrollment. Just-in-time academic support is one strategyfor improving student persistence in STEM, among many other researched best practices.Growth Sector, the backbone organization for the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative’sSTEM Core Expansion Alliance (#1834628), along with partner institutions, has developed andimplemented the STEM Core at 30+ partner colleges in seven states, serving over 3,000 studentssince

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STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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students.Palm Beach State College (PBSC): Serving more than 40,000 students, with 27.5% identifyingas Hispanic and 53% of full-time students eligible for need-based aid. PBSC offers 130 programsand 13 primary areas of study, including Computer Science & Information Technology andScience & Environment. It is a significant producer of Associate degrees and serves as a crucialpathway for students to seamlessly transfer to FAU, a requirement for participation in the presentproject.III. Student Enrollment and Graduation TrendsIII.1 National Trends in 2-Year College Enrollment and Graduation of AA STEM MajorsThe plethora of data and institutional/organizational reports provide clear evidence of the more-than-anticipated impact of Covid-19 not only on

Conference Session

STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Will Tyson, University of South Florida; Sanjukta Bhanja, University of South Florida; Geeti Anwar, University of South Florida; Elise Kuechle, University of South Florida

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financial needs at community colleges,the University of South Florida, and other institutions, contributing to the development of aproficient workforce in the STEM disciplines. In accordance with this overarching goal, thispaper examines the practical application of the project. It explores how community collegetransfers utilize the up to $10,000 S-STEM scholarship toward overcoming financial challengesthey believe would otherwise stunt their progress toward an engineering bachelor’s degree.2. Research QuestionsThe research aims to address the following two questions:a. How do S-STEM scholarships allow low-income community college transfer engineering students to prepare for success at a four-year university?b. How do S-STEM scholarships

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ariel Chasen, University of Texas, Austin; Lea K. Marlor, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Matthew Charles Graham

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revolt?”—Considering Student Resistance: Origins, Options, and Opportunities for Investigation," CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 586-595, 2013/12/01 2013, doi: 10.1187/cbe-13-09-0190.[23] S. E. Shadle, A. Marker, and B. Earl, "Faculty drivers and barriers: laying the groundwork for undergraduate STEM education reform in academic departments," International Journal of STEM Education, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 8, 2017/04/13 2017, doi: 10.1186/s40594-017-0062-7.[24] C. J. Finelli, S. R. Daly, and K. M. Richardson, "Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap: Designing an Institutional Change Plan Using Local Evidence," Journal of Engineering Education, https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20042 vol. 103, no