Enabling Successful Transitions From 2 Year Colleges To A 4 Year Electrical Engineering Program
- Conference
- Location
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Louisville, Kentucky
- Publication Date
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June 20, 2010
- Start Date
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June 20, 2010
- End Date
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June 23, 2010
- ISSN
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2153-5965
- Conference Session
- Tagged Division
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Two Year College Division
- Page Count
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8
- Page Numbers
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15.460.1 - 15.460.8
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--16554
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/16554
- Download Count
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363
Paper Authors
Elaine Scott Seattle Pacific University
Hannah Azevedo Seattle Pacific University
Abstract
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Enabling Successful Transitions from 2-Year Colleges to a 4-Year Electrical Engineering Program
Abstract
The goal of our scholarship program, Engaging the Community to Achieve Success in Engineering (ECASE), is to encourage and enable academically talented, but financially needy students from local community colleges to enter the workforce or continue in graduate studies following completion of a baccalaureate degree in electrical engineering at Seattle Pacific University. This paper focuses on our specific objective to maintain retention rates significantly above national averages. To achieve this, we have recognized the students’ academic, social, as well as financial needs, and the importance of building a sense of community among the students, not only with the university, but with the profession as well. Thus, we have developed a number of programs and activities designed to address these issues. These programs are focused on building connections with the faculty (through faculty mentors), their peers (through social functions and the ECASE study hall), and the profession (through industrial mentors). Thus far, in the second year of the program, all of the scholarship recipients have continued to progress satisfactorily towards completion of their electrical engineering degrees.
Scott, E., & Azevedo, H. (2010, June), Enabling Successful Transitions From 2 Year Colleges To A 4 Year Electrical Engineering Program Paper presented at 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky. 10.18260/1-2--16554
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