Adapting a Proven Pre-Engineering Technology Program in Kentucky

肯塔基社区和技术学院系统（KCTCS）正在调整和实施来自南卡罗来纳州ATE卓越中心的课程材料和最佳实践，以增加技术学生的入学率、保留率、多样性和成功率。该项目的目标是：开发一个技术“门户”（即技术预科课程），以服务那些希望进入一些技术相关专业（不仅是工程技术，还有工业和工程技术、应用过程技术、工业化学技术、信息技术和其他相关技术专业）的准备不足的学生；调整SC ATE工程技术大一核心课程，以适应KCTCS工业与工程技术课程的需求；发展教师专业知识，设计和实施入门级和新生级的综合课程；设计并实施综合课程，利用技术环境中的应用方法，提高学生在数学、通讯、英语和物理方面的基本技能。全州的主要商业和行业合作伙伴正在与教师合作设计课程，每个试点学院的商业和行业咨询委员会正在审查拟议的课程。所有课程都包含了在SCANS报告中确定的技能。肯塔基州的模式正在调整SC ATE开发的模块，并正在使用南卡罗来纳州的实践来创建额外的模块，以满足联邦的需求。该项目的结果是，预计将有更多样化的人口参加技术课程，补习时间将缩短，学生将更好地准备进入劳动力市场和/或学士学位课程，参与者（教师和学生）将更直接地将所需的通识教育组成部分与他们所教的技术领域联系起来。

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) is adapting and implementing curricular materials and best practices from South Carolina's ATE Center of Excellence in order to increase enrollment, retention, diversity, and success rate of technology students. The goals of this project are: to develop a technology "portal" (i.e., a pre-technology curriculum) to serve under-prepared students desiring to enter a number of technology-related programs (not only Engineering Technology but Industrial and Engineering Technology, Applied Process Technologies, Industrial Chemical Technology, Information Technology and other related Technology Programs); to adapt the SC ATE Engineering Technology Freshman Year Core to accommodate the needs of KCTCS' Industrial & Engineering Technology program; to develop the faculty expertise to design and implement an integrated curriculum at both the portal and freshman levels; and to design and implement an integrated curriculum that will enhance students' basic skills in mathematics, communications, English, and physics, utilizing applied methodology in a technology environment. Key business and industry partners across the state are collaborating with faculty in curriculum design, and business and industry advisory committees at each pilot college are reviewing proposed curricula. All curricula are encompassing the skills identified in the SCANS report. The Kentucky model is adapting modules developed by the SC ATE and is using South Carolina's practices to create additional modules to meet the needs of the Commonwealth. As a result of this project, it is envisioned that a more diverse population will enroll in technology courses, remediation time will be shortened, students will be better prepared to enter the workforce and/or baccalaureate programs, and participants (faculty and students) will connect the required general education components more directly to the technological field in which they are teaching and learning.