Engineering

Program Goals and Objectives

Program Mission

The Associate of Science Engineering program provides local southern San Joaquin Valley students an additional career path and transfer opportunities to California Universities and Colleges.  Students acquire the necessary academic, technical, analytical, and communication skills in preparation to transfer to a Bachelor of Science engineering program.

Program Goals

This program is designed to:

• Provide the necessary lower division courses including math, science, engineering, and general education that will transfer successfully to a bachelor’s degree programs in engineering.
• Prepare students to be academically ready for the upper division course work for a BS in engineering program and industry employment.
• Acquire, understand, and apply initial engineering design, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrate necessary critical thinking and lab skills to prepare the students for upper division major courses and subsequent industry employment.
• Provide students several career alternatives as they seek their engineering education.

Program Objectives

The Associate of Science in Engineering program has the following objectives that support the overall program goals and mission.

• Continue offering each required math, physics, chemistry, and engineering courses at a minimum of once per school year.
• Provide the required coursework that applies to multiple engineering transfer majors.The curriculum contains the engineering and science core classes for all engineering majors as well as individual courses applied to specific areas of study.
• Integrate hands-on and project-based learning into each engineering course emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, teamwork, and hands-on skills in addition to the basic theory understanding.
• Support community outreach efforts to attract local high school students (Taft Union, Maricopa, and Shafter) and other Project Lead the Way (PLTW) or engineering related academy high schools in the Bakersfield area.
• Provide students the opportunity to explore an engineering career at the beginning of their educational experience and determine if "this is for me."
• Provide students alternative options if they determine that engineering is not their career choice.
• Link program with industry resources, enabling students to have role models of what an engineering career is and the economic value it provides. Create a sense for each student of…. "I want to become like them, and I am capable of becoming an engineering through hard work and determination.”
• Provide economic opportunities for students to understand college is affordable- i.e., summer work programs, internships, and scholarships.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Student demonstration of critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills as individuals and as teams.
• Demonstrate proper application of foundational engineering, math and science skills while solving current industry problems.
• Make effective career choices in the engineering field.