Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers

National Research Council; National Academy Of Engineering; Policy And Global Affairs; Board On Higher Education And Workforce; Committee On Engineering Education; Committee On Enhancing The Community College Pathway To Engineering Careers

ISBN 10: 0309095344 / ISBN 13: 9780309095341

Published by National Academies Press, US, 2005

About this Item

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 collegea "four-year institution partnerships.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers
• Publisher: National Academies Press, US
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309095344
• ISBN 13: 9780309095341
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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, National Academy of Engineering, National Research Co