Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council

doi:10.17226/11438

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Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

(2005)

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.

Contributor(s): National Academy of Engineering; National Research Council; Policy and Global Affairs; Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Committee on Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers; Committee on Engineering Education; Mary C. Mattis and John Sislin, Editors

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National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council. 2005. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11438.

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118 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-09534-1
Ebook: 978-0-309-13353-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/11438

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Front Matter	i-xii
Summary	1-6
1 Overview	7-13
2 Successful Transfer of Students to Four-Year Institutions	14-29
3 Recruitment and Retention	30-45
4 Curricular Content, Quality, and Standards	46-52
5 Diversity in the Engineering Workforce	53-60
6 Data Collection	61-65
7 Report Summary	66-72
Appendix A Committee Members Biographical Information	73-74
Appendix B Committee Meeting Agenda, April 1, 2004	75-81
Appendix C Workshop on Key Issues and Exemplary Practices Meeting Agenda, July 7–8, 2004	82-86
Appendix D Workshop Participants	87-92
Appendix E Transfer Data	93-102
Appendix F References	103-106

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