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

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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

Elaine.Craft@fdtc.eduJoshua.Phiri@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