Enhancing the community college pathway to engineering careers / Mary C. Mattis and John Sislin, editors ; Committee on Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers, Committee on Engineering Education, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Policy and Global Affairs, National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattis, Mary C.

Sislin, John, 1965-

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Engineering.

Community colleges--Curricula--United States.

Community colleges.

Engineering--Vocational guidance--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road to engineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-year educational institutions to continue their education. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers , a new book from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council, discusses ways to improve the transfer experience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhance partnerships between those colleges and four-year engineering schools to help students transfer more smoothly. In particular, the book focuses on challenges and opportunities for improving transfer between community colleges and four-year educational institutions, recruitment and retention of students interested in engineering, the curricular content and quality of engineering programs, opportunities for community colleges to increase diversity in the engineering workforce, and a review of sources of information on community college and transfer students. It includes a number of current policies, practices, and programs involving community college "four-year institution partnerships.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Summary

1 Overview

2 Successful Transfers to Four-Year Institutions

3 Recruitment and Retention

4 Curricular Content, Quality, and Standards

5 Diversity in the Engineering Workforce

6 Data Collection

7 Report Summary

Appendixes

A Committee Members Biographical Information

B Committee on Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

C Workshop on Key Issues and Exemplary Practices in Community College Engineering Science Programs and Transfer

D Workshop on Key Issues and Exemplary Practices in Community College Engineering Science Programs and Transfer

E Transfer Data

References.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-1-6).

ISBN:

9786610286355

9780309133531

030913353X

9781280286353

1280286350

9780309547574

0309547571

OCLC:

70720085