To inspire and help students to build their career in Engineering by helping the student know their local community, their state, their nation and the world, and the opportunities they have to change it through the profession of Engineering and to provide excellent academic instruction and support, with a variety of offerings in various Engineering fields.
The Engineering for transfer program is designed to prepare students for the rigors demanded by CSU and UC Schools of Engineering. Fundamental engineering courses including the study of statics (ENGR-8), Circuits (ENGR-17) and Materials Science (ENGR-45) complement course completions in Mathematics (calculus-based), Physics (for Scientists and Engineers) for students preparing for bachelor's degrees in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Mechatronic Engineering. To obtain an Associate's degree, students must complete both the major requirements and the graduation requirements for the college. The Civil Engineering Technology program is designed to prepare students to enter the world of Civil Engineering Technologists with a Certificate of Achievement for technician-level surveying competency. The program has sufficient breadth to include surveying, map drafting, and computer aided drafting (CAD). After completion of the certificate of achievement requirements including a mathematics and computer science completion, the student will be prepared to enter civil engineering technology at the entry level.
Engineering as an instructional program has the overarching goals that include:
- Centralize location of Engineering program lecture and laboratory spaces to every extent possible to synergize all instructional delivery with CSCI and DFT programs.
- Attend professional development events, education opportunities, externships and trade shows.
- Ongoing alignment and adjustment of all curriculum to CID requirements and to all UC, CSU and CC Joint Engineering Program task force recommendations.
- Replace all equipment and instrumentation to current technology standards of practice for an engineering for transfer and technology-based completion strands.
Strategy 1 - Engineering Program Facilities
Centralize location of Engineering program lecture and laboratory spaces
Centralize location of Engineering program lecture and laboratory spaces to every extent possible to synergize all instructional delivery with CSCI and DFT programs.
Strategy 2 - Professional Development
Faculty and staff professional development including events, workshops, training, externships and trade shows.
STEM programs mandate a continued pursuit of professional development that extends beyond local resources. Professional development keeps faculty and staff at the leading edge of development of relevant instructional programming, courses, certificates and degrees.
Strategy 3 - Curriculum Alignment to All Programmatic Needs
Align all curriculum to C-ID requirements and to all UC, CSU and CC Joint-Engineering-Program task force recommendations.
The Engineering Program at Butte College should be designed to teach to help students get wherever it is they desire to go. All or almost all Engineering students take Drafting and Computer Science classes. We teach to help them get wherever they desire to go. Many of our students believe that they can be engineers, yet the vast majority do not even know what an engineer really is, or what an engineer does. It is OUR collective opportunity to guide those students and help them understand that and every education opportunity we have with those students prepares them for success. Some will succeed and transfer as engineering students. Others will transfer as technologist students and still others will exit at the lower division level with certificates or associates degrees but each and every one ours to help. The Transfer Engineering Certificate Engineering Liaison Council (ELC) ELC (http://www.caelc.org/ ) is a unique organization in California that has been serving a very important and critical function in engineering education since 1947. It is composed of representatives of engineering and engineering technology education throughout California and several other states including: deans and associate deans from the colleges of engineering of the University of California system, the California State University system and the independent universities and colleges, and the engineering professors from the California Community Colleges. The Engineering Science-Transfer certificate covers courses ordinarily would require of freshmen students who wish to major in a four-year engineering program. Graduates may apply for transfer to a four-year institution or continue studies at a two-year institution and apply for transfer later. This certificate would be part of the General Engineering program.
Strategy 4 - Update Instructional Equipment and Instrumentation
Replace all equipment and instrumentation to current technology standards of practice for an engineering for transfer and technology based completion strands.
Replace all equipment and instrumentation to current technology standards of practice for an engineering for transfer and technology based completion strands.
The Engineering Program requests the following in consideration for non-financial resources:
Facilities: The Materials Science Lab is currently in a very difficult condition. We have 12 Labs in total. 6 of them are currently being executed in LRC116, which is not a wet lab room, with no water. Safety conditions not optimal. The other 6 Labs are performed in the Mech Ag machine shop (MA-105), where we are guests. Potentially, all ENGR classes need a Lab room with computers.
Possible STEM based grants that support Engineering.
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
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| 1 | Engineering Program | Facilities | $97,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Engineering Laboratory | Engineering as a program needs a centralized laboratory, properly equipped with computers sufficient to match the requirements and demands of an engineering-for-transfer and a technology based engineering certificate completion program. Current program demands exceed effective facility space that is not adequately enabled for student success. Request one-time augmentation for remodeling. |
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| 2 | ENGR Engineering Program | Equipment | $210,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Purchase Materials, Technology and Equipment | There is much equipment in need of repair or replacement. New/Refurbished Equipment Includes: -Digital tension and compression test machine -Hydraulic tension and compression test machine -Hydraulic tension and compression test machine with digital controls and connectivity -Hydraulic beam deflection tester -Hydraulic beam deflection tester with digital controls and connectivity -Metallurgy specimen grinders -Metallurgy specimen compression stands -Metallurgy speciment furnace -Control computers for Lab Environment -Training for instruction and lab technician -Site License for Circuits Build Lab -Oscilliscopes with digital interfaces -Digital multimeters with data collection interfaces -Statics - Friction, Forces and Moments Kits -Statics - Internal reactions, thermal, shear and bend -Computing devices for dedicated classroom/laboratory |
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| 3 | Engineering Program | Operating Expenses | $4,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Professional Development | STEM programs mandate a continued pursuit of professional development that extends beyond local resources. Professional development keeps faculty and staff at the leading edge of development of relevant instructional programming, courses, certificates and degrees. |
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| 4 | ENGR Engineering Program | Operating Expenses | $0.00 | $20,000.00 | ||
| ENGR Budget | The Engineering Program has been sharing it's budget with Computer Science and Drafting Technologies. It needs it's own budget to handle day-to-day activities as well as maintaining the new and current equipment that it has. |
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| 5 | ENGR Engineering Program | Equipment | $3,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Extensometer | ENGR 45 (Materials Science) is in need of an Extensometer to effectively teach the class. |
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| 6 | ENGR Engineering Program | Equipment | $10,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| MatLab License | MatLab is industry used software and is used at other institutions that we would like to articulate with. |
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