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Community College Pathway to engineering careers

Community College Pathway to engineering careers. By Aco Sikoski Ivy Tech Community College – Valparaiso Campus. February 27, 2009. Agenda. What is Engineering?. ABET defines it as:

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Community College Pathway to engineering careers

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  1. Community College Pathway to engineering careers By Aco Sikoski Ivy Tech Community College – Valparaiso Campus February 27, 2009

  2. Agenda

  3. What is Engineering? ABET defines it as: Engineering is the profession in which a knowledge of a mathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of the nature for the benefit of mankind. • Inventing • Design • Develop; • Manufacture; • Test; • …

  4. Source: ABET 2008 annual meeting

  5. Source: ABET 2008 annual meeting

  6. Organizing to Improve the Pipeline • Image • Community Colleges • Faculty • Strategies • Policy

  7. Image… • Students do not know much about engineering (44%) • Only 20% of parents have encourage their children to consider an engineering career; • They do not feel confident enough in their math and science skills (21%) • source: American Society for Quality

  8. Image … • Middle School program: • Gateway To Technology • High School program: • Project Lead the Way • The Center of Workforce Innovations, Inc: • Council on Manufacturing & Engineering Competitiveness

  9. Source: ABET 2008 annual meeting

  10. Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers High School Electrical Computer Mechanical Civil First Year First Year First Year First Year Second Year Second Year Second Year Second Year Community College Third Year Third Year Third Year Third Year Fourth Year Fourth Year Fourth Year Fourth Year

  11. Successful Transfers to Four-Year InstitutionsChallenges… • An aggressive high school outreach program to attract qualified students to the engineering profession via community colleges and four-year educational institutions • An intensive enrichment program in mathematics and science at the community college level to boost the proficiency of underprepared high school students. • Engineering courses with state-of-the-art technology and education supplemented with a variety of interesting design-and-build programs to motivate students to continue the study of engineering leading to a bachelor’s degree • Coordinated curricula between community colleges and four-year institutions through articulation agreements with institutions in the area.

  12. Successful Partnership… • mutual respect and trust between the participating institutions at all levels • open, ongoing dialogue between faculties and administrators • common objectives, strategies, and advertising • coordinated programs and activities, including joint projects and cultural activities • ongoing efforts to refine and align lower-level course offerings at the community college level • visible presence of partners on each other’s campuses

  13. ITCC Pre-Engineering curriculum

  14. ITCC Pre-Engineering curriculum

  15. ITCC Pre-Engineering Transfer Agreements: Purdue University Calumet: Fall 2006 Fall 2008 Purdue University North Central: Fall 2007 Valparaiso University: Fall 2008 University of Southern Indiana: Fall 2006 University of Evansville: Fall 2006

  16. Pre-Engineering students… • “I think it is better to go to a community college for the engineering because you have the benefit to get all of your prerequisites out of the way and get an associates degree in engineering. It helps out a lot because you don't have the big class so you get more one on one time with the teacher when you need help on things.” • ITCC Pre-Engineering student

  17. Pre-Engineering students… • “In general I have really enjoyed the program. I feel that I look at everything from a different perspective now. But it also takes away a lot of the mysteries in life, like rainbows, mirages, or even why the sky is blue. I just can't help but to look at everything from an engineer's point of view. My favorite classes were the design classes, like designing stuff using the inventor program. • I also enjoyed physics and chemistry. And even the math was interesting. • I did like most of the teachers I had, most of them even showed us even more than what was required by the class specifications. But most of all I enjoyed the smaller classes I had, I couldn't imagine learning calculus in a lecture hall with over a hundred students.” • ITCC Pre-Engineering student

  18. CC success… • Itasca Community College • From 1998 to 2002, 85 percent of Itasca’s 140 students in engineering and physics transferred to four-year engineering programs, the majority at the University of North Dakota. • From 1999 to 2003, 110 students graduated four-year programs with A.S. degrees from Itasca; 100 (91 percent) of them either became engineers or are on track to do so..

  19. Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers Q&A Panel

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