Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

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Title:

Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

Url:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11438/enhancing-the-communit...

Creator:

Mattis, Mary C.
Sislin, John

Description: 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. You can read this book online for free or order a copy from the website.

LC Classification:

Education -- Individual institutions (United States) -- Individual institutions -- United States -- Community colleges. Junior colleges
Education -- Special aspects of education -- Types of education -- Vocational education (General)
Education -- Theory and practice of education -- Higher education -- Curriculum
Technology -- Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering -- Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering -- Study and teaching -- America -- United States

GEM Subject:

Science -- Engineering
Science -- Technology
Science -- Careers
Vocational Education -- Careers
Vocational Education -- Instructional issues

Key Concept:

Mechanical engineering
Electrical engineering
Transportation engineering
Mining engineering

Date Issued:

2005

Resource Type:

Reference Material
Instructional Material
Instructional Material -- Instructor Guide/Manual

Format:

Document -- PDF
Document -- HTML

Audience:

Administrator
Educator
Professional/Practitioner

Education Level:

Higher Education
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education

Language:

English

Rights:

National Academy of Sciences

Access Rights:

Free access

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