Fragoso-Diaz, G., & Gray, B. (2022, August), An Analysis of Student Retention Efforts in Engineering Technology Programs  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40826

\bibitem{asee_peer_40826}
  Fragoso-Diaz, G., \& Gray, B. (2022, August), \emph{An Analysis of Student Retention Efforts in Engineering Technology Programs}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40826

Gloria Fragoso-Diaz and Billy Gray.  "An Analysis of Student Retention Efforts in Engineering Technology Programs".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40826 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40826}
  Gloria Fragoso-Diaz and Billy Gray.
  "An Analysis of Student Retention Efforts in Engineering Technology Programs".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40826 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

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author = "Gloria Fragoso-Diaz and Billy Gray"
title = "An Analysis of Student Retention Efforts in Engineering Technology Programs"
booktitle = "2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2022"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Engineering Technology graduates, with their unique skills support technological advances and have the capacity to impact positively local economies as well and that of a nation. Unfortunately, efforts to increase the number of graduates in these programs have not been enough since many of these programs still have low enrollment of students as reported in the literature. Also, evidenced by the large proportion of students leaving their programs mostly during or at the end of their first year. Thus, it is of importance to graduate students in Engineering Technology programs. In this paper, a literature review is carried out to find out about the efforts for student retention in the Engineering Technology programs during recent years. We compare the amount of student retention efforts in engineering technology to those in traditional engineering programs. Included in the paper are engineering technology student retention statistics of a regional university to show the problem is prevalent in these programs. Additionally, a discussion on the importance that skills of engineering technology graduates provide to the labor force is included together with a short elaboration on the difference between Engineering Technology and traditional Engineering graduates and programs. The purpose of this paper is two-fold; to demonstrate the small proportion of research and otherwise efforts compared to traditional engineering areas to retain students, and to promote the need to increase resources to support student retention in the Engineering Technology programs.  Conclusions are expected to list a strong need to do more work, research and/or resource allocation in student retention for Engineering Technology programs.
AU  - Gloria Fragoso-Diaz
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CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
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