Community colleges provide broad access to a college degree due to their less expensive tuition, greater course time offerings, and more open admission policies compared to four-year universities as reported (Juszkiewicz, 2015). These institutions have great potential to diversify who chooses STEM, such as engineering. Such diverse representation…

Over the past decade, continuous quality improvement (CQI) has emerged as a strategy for documenting and systematically building academic program quality. This study used a nationally representative sample of engineering faculty members and students to examine the influence of faculty members' CQI activities on the relationships between student…

Developed and tested an Institutionalization Process Model which posits that regulative, normative, and cognitive institutionalization processes affect the diffusion of curricular and pedagogical reforms beyond faculty members directly involved in the effort. Data from seven engineering schools indicated varying importance of regulative,…