Author: Thomas B. CorcoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College attendance
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Factors Affecting Enrollment in Engineering-related Technical Programs in Community Colleges
Author: Thomas B. CorcoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College attendance
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Factors Affecting Enrollment in Engineering-related Technical Programs in Community Colleges
Author: Thomas B. CorcoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College attendance
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineers
Author: National Academy of EngineeringPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309485606
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Engineering skills and knowledge are foundational to technological innovation and development that drive long-term economic growth and help solve societal challenges. Therefore, to ensure national competitiveness and quality of life it is important to understand and to continuously adapt and improve the educational and career pathways of engineers in the United States. To gather this understanding it is necessary to study the people with the engineering skills and knowledge as well as the evolving system of institutions, policies, markets, people, and other resources that together prepare, deploy, and replenish the nation's engineering workforce. This report explores the characteristics and career choices of engineering graduates, particularly those with a BS or MS degree, who constitute the vast majority of degreed engineers, as well as the characteristics of those with non-engineering degrees who are employed as engineers in the United States. It provides insight into their educational and career pathways and related decision making, the forces that influence their decisions, and the implications for major elements of engineering education-to-workforce pathways.
Engineering Technology Education in the United States
Author: National Academy of EngineeringPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309437717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The vitality of the innovation economy in the United States depends on the availability of a highly educated technical workforce. A key component of this workforce consists of engineers, engineering technicians, and engineering technologists. However, unlike the much better-known field of engineering, engineering technology (ET) is unfamiliar to most Americans and goes unmentioned in most policy discussions about the US technical workforce. Engineering Technology Education in the United States seeks to shed light on the status, role, and needs of ET education in the United States.
Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095344
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book 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 collegeâ€"four-year institution partnerships.
Resources in Education
Author: Factors Influencing Engineering Enrollment
Author: American Society for Engineering Education. Committee for the Analysis of Engineering EnrollmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Community College Review
Author: Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309256542
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit. Based on a national summit that was supported by the National Science Foundation and organized by the NRC and the NAE, the report highlights the importance of community colleges, especially in emerging areas of STEM (Sciene, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and preparation of the STEM workforce. Community colleges are also essential in accommodating growing numbers of students and in retraining displaced workers in skills needed in the new economy. Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit looks at the changing and evolving relationships between community colleges and four-year institutions, with a focus on partnerships and articulation processes that can facilitate student success in STEM; expanding participation of students from historically underrepresented populations in undergraduate STEM education; and how subjects, such as mathematics, can serve as gateways or barriers to college completion.