Strategies for Expanding and Strengthening the Community College STEM Pipeline

1. Strategies for Expanding and Strengthening the Community College STEM Pipeline Amelito Enriquez Cañada College enriquez@smccd.edu 2013 AHSIE Best Practices Conference

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7. Let’s try InkSurvey Tool • Use Firefox as the browser • I’ll use it to solicit questions. • Go to this url: http://ticc.mines.edu/hp/survey.php/Project_Directors • Select the Question: “AHSIE Conference” • Type or write your question and “Submit.” • To enter another question, refresh browser.

8. Outline • About Cañada College • Strategies • Community College Students • Math Jam • Physics Jam • Scholarship Program • Intersegmental Cross-Enrollment Program • Summer Research Internship Program • High School Students • Summer Engineering Institute • STEM Institute • Faculty • Summer Engineering Teaching Institute • Joint Engineering Program • Funding Sources

9. Cañada College • Redwood City, CA Climate Best by Government Test

10. About Cañada College 2011-2012 Unique Headcount: 10,965 FTES: 4,904 • One of 112 California community colleges • One of three colleges in the San Mateo Community College District

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12. Motivation Addressing low completion rates among California community college students *Completion is defined as getting an AS degree or transferring to a four-year institution within 6 years.

13. Cañada College: Low Persistence Rates *Persistence is defined as continuing to take at least one course in the college.

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16. Placement Tests, Declared Engineering Major and Transfer

17. Over 50% of Cañada Mexican American Engineering Students place into Pre-algebra or Algebra *A student who places into Pre-algebra has to complete 10 math courses before transferring to a four-year school.

18. Math Jam • Two-week intensive preparation for the Math Placement Test • Pre-algebra, Algebra, College • Algebra, Trig, Precalc, Calculus • Developing problem-solving skills • Individual & group study sessions • One-on-one tutoring • Math Anxiety • College success • Time management • Test taking strategies

19. 2009 Math Jam Schedule: Week 1

20. 2009 Math Jam Schedule – Week 2

21. Math! • Used MyMathTest • Online system developed by Pearson Education for developing math placement tests and short math refresher programs • Customizes individual study plan based on results of practice test • $7.00 per license – good for 12 weeks • http://mymathtest.com/login_mmt.htm • 4 Instructors (Prealgebra, Elementary Algebra, College Algebra, Trigonometry and higher) • About 1 tutor for every 5-10 students.

22. Math Jam Participants

23. Math Jam Results

24. How did MJ students perform in Fall 2009 math courses?

25. Addressing Low Persistence Rates • CA Community College students have low persistence rate from one semester to the next • For Cañada, the two-year persistence rate for all first-time students (based on a cohort study) is 38%. It’s Audience Polling Time!

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27. Persistence of Cañada College Students Average Persistence Rates of All First Time Students

28. Persistence of Cañada College Students Average Persistence Rates of All First Time Students Students Who Attended Math Jam in Summer 2009

29. Mini-Math Jam

30. Evening Math Jam

31. Physics Jam • 4 weeks • M-Th, 9 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. • Self-paced • Developing problem-solving skills • One-on-one tutoring • Physics Anxiety • Time management • Test taking strategies

32. Physics! • Used Hippocampus videos • Online videos developed by National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) • http://www.hippocampus.org/collection/NROC • Additional videos developed by Instructional Aide • About 1 tutor for every 5 students. • Used webassign for problem solving • Online homework and grading system developed by North Carolina State University. • Two weeks free trial and $25.00 for each student after that • http://webassign.net/

33. 2012 Physics Jam Highlights • 21 participants • Reported anxiety about studying physics dropped from 61% to 42%; • 94% will recommend Physics Jam to friends; • 94% liked that Physics Jam is a self-paced program; • 74% would like to have received credit after taking Physics Jam; • 2013 Winter Mini-Physics Jam: 39 participants

34. Cañada’s NSF S-STEM Program $600,000 from 2009-2014

35. S-STEM Scholars Demographics

36. Mentoring Program 8 faculty mentors: BiolSci (3), Chemistry (1), Engineering (2), Engineering & Comp Sci (1), and Mathematics (1). Welcome Lunch at the beginning of each semester Each mentor meets with mentees (individually or in groups) • develop and review Student Educational Plans, • discuss academic progress and problem areas • to help students get connected with resources • provide career counseling, • assist in transfer, scholarship and internship applications.

37. Scholar Participation

38. Highlights of Cañada’s S-STEM • One of only 6 programs selected exemplary programs in the nation for a site visit in May 2012.

39. Intersegmental Cross-Enrollment Program • Cañada students participated in senior design projects at SFSU: timber bridge, concrete canoe, and seismic design competitions. • Cañada students also participated in upper-division SFSU courses in linear systems analysis, micro-electronics, digital electronics, materials and manufacturing.

40. H NASA CIPAIR Summer Research Internship 2012 2011 • 10-week program specifically designed for CC students • Flexible schedule for students who take summer courses • 3 Research Groups. Each group has • one full-time and 3 half-time interns • one Faculty Adviser • one Graduate Student Assistant/Mentor

41. Research Focus Areas: Seismic Design and Evaluation of Moment-Resisting Frames Embedded Systems Design Performance Degradation of Integrated Circuits in Nano-Scale Developing a Temperature and Pressure Data logger for Biomedical Application A Low Switching Frequency AC-DC Boost Converter for Powering Miniaturized Implants Wirelessly • Highlights • 100% Retention Rate for NASA CIPAIR students. • 92% of NASA CIPAIR students planning to go to graduate school. • Student papers, posters and presentations: • 2011: SHPE, IEDEC, ASEE PSW (2 papers and 3 posters) • 2012: SACNAS, IEDEC, ASEE PSW (3 papers and 3 posters) • Starting 2013: 4 Research Groups

42. Summer Engineering Institute • A two-week residential program on San Francisco State University campus • Goals: • Introduce students to the engineering profession • Recruit students into an engineering field • Increase student awareness of college success skills SEI Typical Weekday

43. Engineering Institute Activities • College Orientation • Team Building Activities • Leadership Skills Development • Communication Skills • Resume Writing • Lectures, Labs, Projects • Individual/Group Study Sessions • Motivational Speakers • Sports, Recreation & Networking • Field Trips • Exploratorium • Cal Trans • Bay Bridge Construction site • Design Projects • Group Project Presentation • Awards Banquet

44. SEI Students

45. SEI Participants

46. Student Survey: Intended Majors

47. Follow up Survey: 2009-2011 Participants • Out of the 77 2009-2011 SEI graduates, 40 students responded. (52% response) • All 40 of the survey respondents are still in school. • Out of the 40 respondents, 33 (or 82.5%) are engineering majors, 6 are pursuing non-engineering majors, and one is undecided. Response Scale: 5 – Strongly Agree, 4 – Agree, 3 – Neutral, 2 – Disagree, 1 – Strongly Disagree.

48. STEM Institute • Free program for HS freshmen and sophomores • Explore careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Math, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth/Environmental Science and Engineering through hands-on activities individual and group projects • Three weeks, M-F, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

49. 2012 STEM Institute Highlights- 15 participants- 78% are more likely to consider pursuing a major in STEM;- 85% feel they benefited from participating;- Engineering and chemistry were the most popular modules;- Most participants recommend making the program longer.

50. Use of Technology: Motivation • Erosion of lower-division engineering curriculum • Variability of required courses among institutions • Variability for different majors • Variability of course content • Diminished viability of CC engineering programs • Cancellation of CC engineering courses/programs • Reduction in the number and diversity of future engineers