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Innovative Approaches to Enhance Enrollment, Retention, and Skills in Engineering Technology Education

The SC Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence presents transformative strategies to boost enrollment, retention, and graduation rates in engineering technology education. By focusing on engaging diverse learners through interdisciplinary learning, problem-based methods, and real-world applications, we prepare students for the workforce. Our curriculum addresses educational prerequisites, promotes essential workplace skills, and utilizes faculty coordination to support student success, achieving remarkable outcomes like a 75% retention rate and a 40.7% graduation rate.

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Innovative Approaches to Enhance Enrollment, Retention, and Skills in Engineering Technology Education

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

  2. Are you listening?

  3. 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?

  4. 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

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

  6. 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

  7. The SC ATE Curriculum • View Video

  8. Math Technology Communication Physics Integrated Structure Problem-Based Learning

  9. 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

  10. ATE Classroom at FDTC

  11. Is the curriculum good? • 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”

  12. Is the curriculum good? • Dr. Arnold Packer, Chair, SCANS Commission said: “The SC ATE approach will, I hope, be the future of ET education”

  13. 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%

  14. Girls have top graduation rates • View “You Can be Anything” video

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

  16. 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

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

  18. ATE Websitewww.scate.orgElaine.Craft@fdtc.eduJoshua.Phiri@fdtc.edu • Curriculum products • Faculty Development • Recruitment/retention strategies • Workplace research model • Peer mentoring • Grant Development and evaluation

  19. SC ATE Center of Excellence National Resource Center for ET Education

  20. Leverage resources • View WGBH Pathways to Technology

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