Conference Session

Technical Session 5a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Thomas Yan; James LeRoy Dalton, Cañada College; Kattia Chang, Engineering Student at Cañada College; Bianca Corine Villanueva Doronila, Canada College; Victor Josue Melara Alvarado, Canada College; Christopher Thomas; Ian M Donovan, San Francisco State University; Kartik Bholla; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kazunori Okada, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

in 1998. He teaches courses in Civil/Structural Engineering. Dr. Pong is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineers Association of California. He has published over fifty technical papers in the areas of Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering. Dr. Pong has been the Director of the School of Engineering at SFSU with 20 full-time faculty and over 25 part-time faculty since 2009.Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University Prof. Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked

Conference Session

Technical Session 5b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

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

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Pacific Southwest Section

for Flexible Delivery of a Materials Science CourseAbstract:Community colleges provide an important pathway for many prospective engineering graduates,especially those from traditionally underrepresented groups. However, due to a lack of facilities,resources, student demand and/or local faculty expertise, the breadth and frequency ofengineering course offerings is severely restricted at many community colleges. This in turnpresents challenges for students trying to maximize their transfer eligibility and preparedness.Through a grant from the National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation program (NSF IUSE), three community colleges from Northern Californiacollaborated to increase the availability and accessibility of a