Characteristics of Community College Transfer Students that Successfully Matriculate and Graduate in Engineering

The path from community college to an engineering degree can be filled with obstacles. “What we [still] don‟t know [about transfer students] is staggering 1 .” Few research studies have been done from the perspective of community college graduates from accredited engineering programs. This study will help researchers, policy makers and educators understand behavior of community college transfer students that successfully matriculate and graduate in engineering. It will also help guide short-term tactical and long-term strategic programming for transfer students in engineering. Disciplines Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering | Engineering Education Comments This proceeding is from Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. This conference proceeding is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/abe_eng_conf/7 AC 2011-1148: CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENTS THAT SUCCESSFULLY MATRICULATE AND GRADUATE IN ENGINEERING Steven K. Mickelson , Iowa State University Steven Mickelson is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, the Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching, and the Co-director o Learning Communities at Iowa State University. Marcia R Laugerman, Iowa State University Marcia Laugerman is a researcher for the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and a licensed professional industrial engineer. She has twenty years of faculty experience teaching engineering, business and statistics courses and is a current Ph D candidate. c ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Characteristics of Community College Transfer Students that Successfully Matriculate and Graduate in Engineering

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