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Do It Differently to Get a Different Outcome
SC Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence
National Resource Center for Engineering Technology Education
Are you listening?
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 approachPay attention to learning vs. teachingHelp students make connectionsFocus on what is really important“Loosen” your hold on content
coverage Look beyond “surface” issues when
dealing with students
General education prerequisitesQuestion: “Why am I learning this?”Making connections across disciplinesProblem solving skillsCommunication skillsTeamwork skillsLearning styles
Challenges SC ATE Addressed
SC ATE Solution Interdisciplinary faculty coordinating
teamsProblem-based learning
Mathematics, physics, communications, & technology
Student teamwork Industry-based problems Problems with multiple solutions
New curriculum for first-year of studyNew ways to assist the under-prepared
The SC ATE Curriculum
View Video
Integrated Structure
Math
Physics
Communication
TechnologyProblem-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?
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 differenceEmployer support at all-time highWorking 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 StrategiesATE Scholars (internships/scholarships)ET Career Ambassadors Industry & student involvementCreate a “buzz” Nurture current studentsSpend $ wisely: evaluate effortsLeverage resources
ATE Websitewww.scate.org
[email protected]@fdtc.edu
Curriculum productsFaculty DevelopmentRecruitment/retention strategiesWorkplace research modelPeer mentoringGrant Development and evaluation
SC ATE Center of Excellence
National Resource Center for ET Education
Leverage resourcesView WGBH Pathways to Technology