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... The study committee was overseen by the Committee on Engineering Education and the Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, both of the National Academy of Engineering, and the Board on Higher Education and Workforce of the National Research Council. The committee held two meetings that included presentations by outside experts, reviews of the literature, and guided discussions and deliberations; organized and conducted a two-day workshop that brought together selected administrators of community colleges and four-year institutions and faculty members from notable programs; and collected and analyzed data on recent engineering graduates with community college experience.
From page 2...
... The report provides descriptions of exemplary programs and practices of community colleges and four-year educational institutions; outreach activities designed to recruit and retain K­12 students through the completion of the baccalaureate degree; and statewide initiatives focused on articulation and transfer. The committee recognizes that there is no "one size fits all" approach to articulation and transfer programs; therefore, the workshop was designed to identify a variety of ways community colleges and four-year educational institutions could improve pathways to careers in engineering and improve educational outcomes in preparing students to pursue engineering education.
From page 3...
... As the trends in engineering education move toward greater diversity and specialization in the lower division course offerings of four-year engineering programs, engineering science curricula at community colleges are less likely to cover the same material or achieve the same results. Thus, the need for communication and resource sharing between transfer partners and for the timely updating of articulation agreements is becoming more urgent.
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... Areas for future research include documenting performance outcomes in terms of recruitment, transfer, retention, and persistence to degrees in undergraduate engineering education. Data collected by educational institutions and research organizations on community college student outcomes in engineering education would provide a basis for improving transfer partnerships and articulation agreements Community colleges have long been recognized as providing opportunities to increase diversity in the U.S.
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... Organizations in the engineering educational and professional communities could work together to increase the awareness of the importance of diversity in the engineering workforce and to educate state and federal legislators. State and federal funding for community college students and incentives for four-year engineering institutions to reach out to community colleges and their students could eventually lead to increases in the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering.
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... Although this study examines partnerships between community colleges and four-year engineering programs, the primary focus is on the needs of community colleges and their students related to articulation agreements and transfer processes. Research on the perspectives of fouryear educational institutions would also be helpful, as would an in-depth examination using both quantitative and qualitative data-collection methods of the experiences of a cohort of students entering and progressing through the community college pathway to engineering careers.


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