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Engineering
James Shackelford, Lead Discipline Faculty
UC Davis
Engineering has been added as a discipline
within IMPAC during the 2001-02 year. In December, Professor
James F. Shackelford of UC Davis was designated as the Lead
Faculty Member for the Engineering Discipline. Professor Shackelford's
initial meeting was at the January 5, 2002 Meeting in Sacramento.
The only other participant for Engineering at that meeting
was Denise Van Horn-Landre, Articulation Officer at Las Positas
College in Livermore. Ms. Van Horn-Landre's participation
and perspective were most useful.
With the effective introduction to IMPAC
provided by the January meeting, Professor Shackelford made
an IMPAC presentation to the Engineering Liaison Committee
(ELC) at its semi-annual meeting at UC Davis on March 14,
2002. He encouraged those involved in the articulation function
for engineering (the core mission of the ELC) to become aware
of the parallel efforts of IMPAC and to become involved in
the IMPAC activities. There was a good core group of people
attending the April IMPAC meeting at LAX, including Ms. Van
Horn-Landre, other participants from community colleges, and
some from the UC. There were unfortunately no CSU participants,
and CSU involvement will be a priority for the coming year.
Professor Shackelford has prepared a copy
of the historical "Summit Agreement" of the ELC
and circulated it at the March ELC meeting and the April IMPAC
meeting (Appendix A).
This is a long-established, general description of the lower-division
program for a typical engineering student at either a community
college or a four-year institution. Various forms of the Summit
Agreement have guided articulation in engineering for roughly
half of the ELC's 55-year history. Professor Shackelford translated
the Summit Agreement into a format similar to that developed
by Professor Schiffman for a Science-alternative to IGETC
(Appendix B).
The consensus of the engineering group at
the April meeting was that expanded dialogue between IMPAC
and the ELC would be mutually beneficial and that a meeting
of at least the engineering group within IMPAC should be held
in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the ELC. (The dialogue
at the April meeting benefited substantially by having the
participation of Darlene Mathias of Cosumnes River College,
Chair of the Community College Segment of the ELC.) We also
felt that IMPAC - Engineering is a valuable advising tool
but should not be codified in the way that IGETC has been.
We also felt that at least two versions of IMPAC - Engineering
would be appropriate for a) mechanical/civil engineering and
b) electrical/computer engineering.
Appendix
A
Appendix B
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