Best Practices for Community College Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

• Pursuing an aggressive high school outreach program to attract qualified students to the engineering profession involving community colleges as well as four-year educational institutions
  
  Promoting an intensive developmental education program in mathematics and science at the community college level to boost the proficiency of under-prepared high school students
  
  Infusing engineering courses with state-of-the-art technology and supplementing the education process with a variety of interesting design-and-build programs to motivate students to continue the study of engineering, leading to bachelor’s degrees
  
  Increasing coordination of curricula between community colleges and four-year institutions through articulation agreements with local institutions