Engineering Pathways for Access, Community, and Transfer (EPACT)

Community colleges (CCs) play a crucial role in US higher education and are an important pathway to providing educational opportunities for students from diverse populations. Since over half of CC students are low-income, from underrepresented groups, and/or first-generation, CCs must play a promine ...

An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking

The Polytechnic School at Arizona State University focuses on the education ecosystem that empowers faculty to be agents of change in the way that they teach engineering courses -- with a special focus on the four year project sequence, the 2nd and 3rd year engineering fundamentals courses, and the ...

Breaking Boundaries: An Organized Revolution for the Professional Formation of Electrical Engineers

The typical engineering department operates on the basis of the traditional pillars of (1) Research, (2) Teaching, and (3) Service. With research focusing mostly on graduate students, and service comprising primarily of research-related activities, the professional formation of engineering students ...

Developing Changemaking Engineers

The University of San Diego's (USD) Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering is embarking on a multi-year project to revolutionize engineering education with the goal of developing "Changemaking" Engineers. The project addresses how an engineering education that integrates traditional technical skills, e ...