Engineering Transfer

Research and resources on the engineering transfer pathway including student perspectives on how to improve transfer and degree completion, reports and presentations on related findings and resources for supporting pathway improvements

One strategy for meeting California’s incredible demand for engineers includes improving transfer paths between the state’ community college and universities and increasing the number of students who make it to transfer and degree in this discipline.

Whether you’re an educator seeking to strengthen your engineering program and improve your students’ transfer outcomes, a student seeking to shorten your time to transfer and degree or an employer working to improve your employee pipeline, this site offers reports and presentations, student perspectives and faculty resources and contributions focused on:

  • How students use California’s community colleges to prepare for transfer in engineering
  • Factors that impact their experience along the way
  • Ways to increase students’ transfer access and success, including reducing the time to transfer and degree and improving their use of the community college system for lower-division major preparation
     

Reports & Presentations

Improving Transfer Pathways for Engineering Students (research brief)
Discover what the research says about how students access and make their way through the engineering transfer pathway (Spring 2011)

The Engineering Transfer Experience (presentation)
Find a presentation to the Engineering Liaison Council highlighting key findings on the engineering transfer path (Fall 2011)

Intro to Engineering Student Survey Summary (presentation)

Learn about key findings from a survey of nearly 250 students across 34 colleges beginning their journey toward a bachelor’s in engineering, including how they’re preparing for transfer and what factors are influencing their experience (Fall 2011)

 

Effective Practices

Pipeline Improvements: Diversifying & Accelerating the Engineering Transfer Path in California Community Colleges (research brief, presentation)

Find out how community colleges are recruiting underrepresented minorities to the engineering transfer path and helping students hurdle the math barrier that can inhibit progress to degree (Fall 2011)

 

Student Perspectives

Student Profiles
Learn about real students working their way through the long and winding road to transfer in engineering (Spring 2012)

Student Advice
Get advice from the “experts”—successful transfers—on how community college students can increase their chances of achieving transfer and a degree in engineering (Spring 2011)

Student Brainstorm
Hear students’ ideas on how to improve their own transfer success in engineering (Fall 2010)


Faculty Contributions & Resources

The Dismantling of the Engineering Education Pipeline (paper)
Learn more about recent developments threatening the viability of the engineering education pipeline; produced by California community college faculty for the American Society for Engineering Education 118th Annual Conference 2011 (featuring RP Group research) by Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin, Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College, Kate A Disney, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA (Spring 2011)