Do It Differently to Get a Different Outcome SC Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence National Resource Center for Engineering Technology Education

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How Do you?  Increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates?  Engage diverse learners and address multiple learning styles?  Improve workplace readiness skills like problem-solving, teamwork, and communications?

Take a different approach  Pay attention to learning vs. teaching  Help students make connections  Focus on what is really important  “Loosen” your hold on content coverage  Look beyond “surface” issues when dealing with students

 General education prerequisites  Question: “Why am I learning this?”  Making connections across disciplines  Problem solving skills  Communication skills  Teamwork skills  Learning styles Challenges SC ATE Addressed

SC ATE Solution  Interdisciplinary faculty coordinating teams  Problem-based learning  Mathematics, physics, communications, & technology  Student teamwork  Industry-based problems  Problems with multiple solutions  New curriculum for first-year of study  New ways to assist the under-prepared

The SC ATE Curriculum  View Video

Integrated Structure Math Physics Communication Technology Problem-Based Learning

What is different?  Application to theory  Just-in-time learning  Physics concurrent with mathematics  Order of content coverage (esp. English and mathematics)  Student teams throughout  Faculty teams coordinating learning  Classrooms that model the workplace

ATE Classroom at FDTC

 Western Michigan University study rating: 4.0 for “effectiveness in helping student learn the knowledge and skills and/or practices needed to be successful in the technical workplace” Is the curriculum good?

 Dr. Arnold Packer, Chair, SCANS Commission said: “The SC ATE approach will, I hope, be the future of ET education”

Does it Work?  Retention SC ATE = 75%  vs. all 2-yr. college students = 40%  Graduation rates SC ATE = 40.7%  vs. all ET students statewide = 12%  Time-to-graduation SC ATE = 2.3 yrs.  vs. 3.2 yrs. at FDTC  Diversity SCATE = 32% African American  vs. all ET students statewide = 15%

Girls have top graduation rates  View “You Can be Anything” video

Meeting Employer Needs  Employers can tell the difference  Employer support at all-time high  Working together to “grow” technicians  Number of partners is growing

SC ATE Industry Consortium  ArvinMeritor, Inc.  ABB Power T & D Company  Davis & Brown Engineering  ESAB Welding & Cutting  Florence Builders, Inc.  G.E. Medical Systems  Honda of SC  Nan Ya Plastics  Nucor Steel  Progress Energy  Roche Carolina  Vulcraft  Wellman, Inc. …..and others

Recruitment Strategies  ATE Scholars (internships/scholarships)  ET Career Ambassadors  Industry & student involvement  Create a “buzz”  Nurture current students  Spend $ wisely: evaluate efforts  Leverage resources

ATE Website  Curriculum products  Faculty Development  Recruitment/retention strategies  Workplace research model  Peer mentoring  Grant Development and evaluation

SC ATE Center of Excellence National Resource Center for ET Education

Leverage resources  View WGBH Pathways to Technology