CCA PreEngineering Pipeline Annual Enrollment 10 529 Fulltime

CCA Pre-Engineering Pipeline

Annual Enrollment: 10, 529 • Full-time = 21% • Part-time = 79% Student to Faculty Ratio 28: 1 Student to Full-time Ratio 185: 1 • Five continents, more than 60 countries • African American = 22. 4% • American Indian = 1. 6% • Asian = 7. 8% • Hispanic/Latino = 23. 8% • White/Non-Hispanic/unknown = 44. 4%

Student Strengths • Have overcome significant obstacles in lives. • Focus • Drive • Determination

Student Challenges • Poor academic planning • Unrealistic expectations: • Workload in STEM courses • Grades

Students Need • Rigorous academic courses that: • Fill in possible holes in backgrounds • Match requirements for native students at universities • Are intentional about how this is done as students progress

Students Need • The same as native students expectations about: • Workload • Quality of work • Student responsibilities

Students Deserve • Opportunities for project and research experience • Experiences appropriately acknowledged at transfer (course credit or project access)

Students Deserve • Advising, coaching, and mentoring that fill non-academic gaps in their background and prepare them for transfer

Integrated approach • Many factors that need to be addressed for best chance at success • Limited resources • Adopt integrated approach to serve largest number of students

Four Semester Pipeline • Build both technical and soft skills over multiple semesters • Begin tailored advising well before transfer • Develop personal relationships

Introduction to Engineering Workshops focus on hands on, immediately applicable skills: • basic electronics • soldering • Arduino coding • 3 -D printing…

Robotics Design (EGG 106) • Teamwork • Open ended problem solving and trouble shooting • More electronics and coding • Mechanical structures • Meeting deadlines…

Engineering Data Analysis (EGG 132) • • Probability and Statistics Data graphics Coding Giving presentations…

Experimental Design (EGG 151) • • Student generated projects Proposal process Expert faculty mentoring All teams present results at COSGC Undergraduate Research Symposium

More Advanced Projects and Workshops • Rock. On! Workshops (Colorado and Virginia Space Grant) • Rock. Sat-C (collaboration with Red Rocks and Arapahoe) • 2017 Eclipse Balloon Flight (CU-Boulder, Red Rocks, Arapahoe)

Ongoing individual Advising, Coaching and Mentoring • Advising based upon intended transfer school and major • Coaching on study and life skills, preparation for transfer application • Mentoring by faculty chosen by intended major

Colorado Space Grant Consortium • Funding • Projects: Robotics Challenge, Balloon Flights, etc. • Workshops (both students and faculty)

Institutional support • Peoples’ time • Makerspace • Equipment • Lab space

2009 2016

For More Information • Info Packets Available • Victor. Andersen@ccaurora. edu • https: //herculescluster. wordpress. com/2016/0 9/22/a-model-for-student-research-at-2 -yearcolleges/