TRANSFER SUCCESS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEGREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE GRADUATES TO A BACHELOR DEGREE CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

摘要

This paper analyzes historical data of transfer students coming from two community colleges offering Associate of Applied Science Degrees in Civil Engineering Technology entering into a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Degree program at a near by University. A review of literature indicates that many degrees offered at the community college are intended to be "terminal" by their design. An analysis of the data tracks a series of students through courses in which the engineering technology specific pre-requisites were taken at the community college. The courses were chosen to represent a student's "critical path" of sequential courses required by the university. The author's experience with many of the students at both levels has indicated that the transfer student performs as well as the student beginning at the university level through a series of critical courses. The data compares continuing university students and transferring community college students on success measured by final grade point averages. The paper also compares and contrasts the objectives of the each institution.