Who are we?
Who are we? Alabama’s "Broader Bridges to Engineering Profession" Team
Process: Goal, objectives, action plan
Goal: Increase the number of students in engineering, especially from under represented groups.
Objectives:
1. Collect information about existing efforts for our goal. 2. Establish curriculum through articulaltion agreement.
3. Increase awareness of engineering in K12 students.
4. Philosophy:
Achieve these objectives through collaborations between all constituents of the group; k12, community college & university instructors and professional engineers. Use existing programs as our basic structure.
The Action Plan Outline
1. Build a structure to share information about engineering education. ( Get Universities to realize that community colleges’s pre-engineering courses are "good enough". 2. Establish a state-wide articulation committee for engineering track to include both community colleges & univ (faculty committee, disseminate to HS).
3. Find a way to certify/agreement between community colleges’s & universities.
4. Increase awareness of engineering programs and different avernues of success in these programs among K12 students and teachers.
5. Increase number of students from non traditional groups into engineerings. especially minorities and women
1. Share information
involve engineering professional associations , societies & engineering companies.
2. Establish a webpage.
3. Involve ACHE (Alabama Commission On Higher Education) in suppporting our goals.
4. Meeting to polish goals, objectives, actions
When? Sept ,7, 9 am til 4 pm (can arrive friday evening and leave sunday morning) Deliverables: 5 page synopsis in generic grant format.
Before sept 7
A. Build our own signs to the conference centers to be put up.
B. write a general broad letter to administrative leaders in alabama education
Dear
Through a national science foundation grant a group consisting of k12 , cc, university educators, and engineering professionals attended a national conference to address collaboration efforts to improve access to and interest in engineering education. Alabama had eleven representatives at this conference and began developing plans for increasing enrollment in engineering in alabama, especially from under represented groups of potential students.
Our alabama group is comprised of k12, cc, univ & engineering representatives which plans to continue to meet to more fully develop goals, objectives and outreach plans resulting in the establishment of a state-wide information structure, seamless curriculum from secondary to post-secondary to universities, and enhance awareness of of career opportunities in engineering.
this initiative is a national effort and alabama has the opportunity to become a model for the southeast in achieving collaborative efforts to improve access to engineering education.
Your support and participation is needed as we begin to develop and implementing strategies and plans to achieve this national initiative.
In the near future our state committee will have specific goals, objectives and strategies to share with you.
In the meantime if youhave questions this letter does not address please feel free to give me a call.
sincerely,
C. Contact:
Community College Chancellor (Roy Johnson) Ed Associate Deans of academic programs ( Jim & Marilyn)
Chair of General Studies & Articulation Committee (Ed)
D. Collect information on other states (all)
E. Get the word out to:
presidents of all community colleges Academic deans assoc
Ala College Association ken, mike, me, jim & janice
state articulation committee
ACHE
AAST
ECTM
Kitty Morgan at homewood hs, secondary Alabama teacher of year in secondary education.
5. Solicit seed money, from engineering firms, industries & anyone else we can think of that might be a player.
6. Write Grant Proposals And Submit To:
Alabama Power Bellsouth Public Relations
Southtrust Foundation
Identify 3 or 4 large eng firms
Brassfield & Gorrie Construction Boeing
NSF
7. Obtain a list of physics teachers in high schools and community colleges in Alabama.