CREATING ALTERNATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR TRANSFER ENGINEERING PROGRAMS (CALSTEP)

创建替代学习策略迁移工程计划（CALSTEP）是一个合作项目，旨在加强社区学院工程计划。该项目正在开发核心工程实验室课程，这些课程可以完全在线提供，也可以进行有限的面对面互动。这些实验室课程，以及通过以前资助的NSF项目开发的在线讲座课程，将使来自工程课程有限的学院的社区学院学生能够完成转学所需的低年级工程课程。CALSTEP还在开发翻转课堂教学的替代模式，以提高学生的成功率，并提高学生对工程课程的学习机会，这些课程在传统的教学模式中由于入学率低而无法获得支持。该项目还将培训工程系教师有效使用课程，并通过加州20多个社区学院工程项目的联合体促进课程的持续改进。该项目将导致开发一套全面的低年级工程课程材料，这些材料与全系统审查的课程描述一致，有机会进一步了解和促进越来越多的关于技术在改善STEM教育方面的潜力的研究，并调查替代教学模式。该项目将有助于增加学生接受工程教育的机会;增加经济/教育上处于不利地位的学生以及来自代表性不足群体的学生从事工程职业的人数;减少转学学生在四年制院校完成学位所花费的时间和金钱;并增加未来工程劳动力的多样性。

Creating Alternative Learning Strategies for Transfer Engineering Programs (CALSTEP) is a collaborative project that aims to strengthen community college engineering programs. The project is developing core engineering laboratory courses that are delivered either completely online, or with limited face-to-face interactions. These laboratory courses, together with the online lecture courses developed through a previously funded NSF project, will enable community college students from colleges with limited engineering course offerings to complete the required lower-division engineering courses needed for transfer. CALSTEP is also developing alternative models of flipped classroom instruction to improve student success and enhance student access to engineering courses that otherwise could not be supported in traditional delivery modes due to low enrollment. The project will also train engineering faculty in effectively using the curriculum, and facilitate the continued improvement of the curriculum through a consortium of over twenty community college engineering programs in California. The project will result in the development of a comprehensive set of lower-division engineering curriculum materials that are consistent with system-wide vetted course descriptors, opportunities to further understand and contribute to the growing body of research on the potential of technology in improving STEM education, and investigation of alternative models of instruction. The project will contribute to increasing student access to engineering education; increasing the number of economically/educationally disadvantaged students, and students from underrepresented groups who pursue an engineering career; reducing the time and money that transfer students spend in four-year institutions to complete their degrees; and increasing the diversity of the future engineering workforce.