MEC/CCLC October 18 2002
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Community College Updates
Alpena Community College
All is well but one challenge is that freshman enrollments in engineering are down.
Perhaps students want to go away to school or just are not interested in engineering.
Delta College
Enrollment is steady. Delta offers 2 Introduction to Engineering courses and enrollment
in them is maxed out, students needed overrides this semester. Numbers overall are
holding steady. Even though Dow Chemical is in the neighborhood, Delta has very few
students interested in Chemical Engineering. New buildings are finally going up,
residential construction lab and others. Don Holtzi is working on a pre-engineering
program that would offer more engineering course but not get confer a degree. Courses
such as dynamics, mechanics, and materials might be offered.
Grand Rapids Community College
Enrollments are up overall. Calculus 1 is as high as its ever been. The number who
declared Engineering in this class has decreased. GRCC has a lot of undeclared students
this year. Physics enrollments are up as well. GRCC is trying to create the presence that
they do have transfer programs and not just two years degree programs. The MECCCLC
matric exists as an interactive devise on the GRCC website. From the main GRCC page,
go to Career Pathways, the Engineering. Each college is listed on the matrix and can
have a live link if they send the appropriate information (links) to Nancy Forrest.
Henry Ford Community College
Henry Ford recently approved an Associates degree program in Science and
Preengineering. They are in the process of creating an Introduction to Engineering
course.
Kellogg Community College
Calculus and Pre-Engineering enrollments went down in 1999 and haven’t come back but
overall enrollments are booming. Calculus interest is up but Engineering interest is
down.
Macomb Community College
Macomb has two campuses, center campus and south campus. Their Introduction to
Engineering sections are filled and over filled. They are developing a Manufacturing
Engineering program. They are already advertising it with University of Detroit-Mercy.
St Clair Community College
St Clair’s Associates Degree in Engineering just got started and is bursting at the seams.
Math and Physics enrollments are up about 25% over the last few years.
Schoolcraft College
Schoolcraft’s Engineering Associates Degree is growing slowly but still growing. They
are looking to add an Introduction to Engineering class and added CATIA software to
their CAD options.
West Shore Community College
Enrolments are up overall. Engineering enrollments are down.
Four Year Institutions (Non-degree Programs in Engineering )
Albion College
College of Engineering decrease in pre-engineering and physics enrollments. Albion has
a building construction project in the Sciences. They plan to revisit their pre-engineering
program and try to make articulation smoother. They want to know what the four year
engineering programs are looking for.
Central Michigan University
Enrollments are at an all time high, over 28,000 with 19,000 on campus and the rest at
remote sites. They received over 10,000 applications and admitted 3500 freshmen.
Retention is up. They have fewer international students this year and 1100 transfer
students. CMU has 3 new deans, a new library facility, a new health professions facility
which will open in a year, and 3 new dorms under construction. The vehicle design
program now has a masters degree and the bachelor degree in that program has over 600
students. Pre-engineering students number 90, down from 160. Pre-architecture has
jumped through the roof. CMU is working on an Engineering design graphics
articulation and passed out an abstract explaining this process.
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern saw record enrollments this year, over 25,000 students. Their degree in
Engineering Physics has gone through some changes. A Physics capstone course has
been added with a design/experimental focus. They are up to 60 Physics majors and are
interested in revising their pre-engineering program.
Four Year Institutions with Baccalaureate Programs in Engineering
University of Detroit - Mercy
Enrollments are steady. Freshman enrollments are up 10%. A recent fund raising project
was successful. Coop and placement are doing ok but not as strong as in the past. They
still have a 4 year coop program. US News and World Report put U of D in the top tier
of Mid-West University’s in their category. U of D now has wireless buildings,
programming in C++, Autocad plus ideas (ME’s will be required to take CATIA, the rest
autocad), and online registration. Students are admitted directly into their major.
Minorities and females make up about 30% of enrollments in engineering.
Grand Valley State University
GVSU has started an interdisciplinary degree in Engineering: environmental and
biomedical. Center of Health Professions will open next year. They have a 5 year
bachelors/masters program in Manufacturing. GVSU is seeing growth in Engineering
enrollments. Transfer student numbers are up more than freshman numbers. They have a
little over 22,000 students on the two campus. They are trying to slow down growth by
raising admissions standards. Engineering graphics course will become a true
CAD/CAM design course and utilize rapid prototyping equipment. Programming
language is moving to C++. All Engineering activities will be at the downtown campus
beginning next year.
Kettering University
US News and World Reports ranked Kettering’s Industrial Engineering program #1.
Mechanical is up to 4 from 7. The school is up in the rankings as well. Kettering now
has lighted ball fields, lighted walking paths, a level playing field, and new student
apartment housing (which doubles the existing space). Several design programs are
developing including collaborations with Ford and GM, E-design and E-manufacturing,
combustion, Denzel manufacturing systems and design, Rockwell automation, jet engine
program for Mechanical, wind tunnel, laser Doppler velosometric equipment, pace grant
88 million dollars (lots of in kind giving), NSF funded grant for women between junior
and senior year, center for excellence for teaching and learning. Their new concentration
in biomedical engineering is growing, as are the crash safety and study abroad programs.
The Study Abroad programs are mainly in Europe and are one academic term. Classes
are taught in English. Students can spend two more terms working. The Mechanical and
environmental chemistry building will be moved into this spring. Transfer student
scholarships are available, as are admission visits.
Lake Superior State University
Lake Superior State has a new president. Enrollment is steady with 300 in Engineering.
Robotics is a strong area of interest. Lake Superior State offers opportunities for
undergraduate research, as well as a strong sense of community,
Lawrence Technological University
Lawrence Tech has recently completed some new student housing, a 232 bed facility.
They are in their 3rd year of a laptop initiative offering wireless internet services. The
cost has been rolled into tuition which allows for better for financial aid. New programs
include the Lear Corporation Entrepreneurial program, which is a part of the Engineering
program. It does not add any additional credit hours but is a 10-15 credit hours
modification of current courses. There is a good deal of student in this program A global
engineering program to Germany offers classes and coop opportunity. Campus visit day
is Saturday November 9. There are also Community College visits planned in
November. These will be evening presentations with admissions and engineering people.
Scholarships are available for transfer students in various amounts.
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
The packets that U of M brought contain data about admission and a profile of last years’
average applicant. U of M received 4500 applications for 1000 spots in Engineering
(please see the blue sheet for more information). Transfer student scholarships are
available for high GPA’s, $3000 to 3.9 and 4.0, $2000 for 3.8. The two white front and
back sheets show a 5 year trend per department on specifics. Technology Day is
Saturday November 9. The new Biomedical building should be open by late fall/winter.
They might be building a new Computer Science building.
University of Michigan – Dearborn
Undergraduate enrollment has increases. U of M-Dearborn has rolling admissions for
transfer students. They have 9 bachelors programs. All upper level courses have been
changed to 4 credits each. They offer 12 masters programs. U of M-Dearborn will hold
an open house NOT on not November 9. Their open house was September 22. They
currently have 4 students from Sweden. Eight U of M-Dearborn students are in Sweden
now and 4 more plan to go in January. They also have an exchange program in Spain.
The courses in that program are taught in Spanish. Students at U of M-Dearborn are
admitted directly into their majors. There are plans to refurbished the university center.
Michigan State University
Please see the transfer handout sheet for details about the numbers admitted for each
major. MSU offers Unigraphics for its CAD. They also offer a product design cognate
through the Engineering Arts program that goes more in depth into Unigraphics. The
preferred programming language at MSU is C++. For students who transfer at the junior
level, the GPA requirement is very competitive because of the limited amount of spots
available. Transfer students may choose a second choice major to be admitted to MSU
and then apply to their engineering major once they are here if they meet the
requirements.
Michigan Technological University
Engineering enrollment is down slightly. In addition Michigan Tech has experienced a
slight drop in chemical and women. Transfer student numbers are up. International
numbers are down. Michigan Tech offers scholarship money to transfer students
amounting to $100,000. This is based on GPA’s of 3.5 or higher. Currently Michigan
Tech has 230 transfer students and is looking at getting 300 in the future. Admissions is
willing to come and speak at various institutions.
Oakland University
Oakland still requires a 2.8 for admission. They accept 64 credits of transfer work.
Students are admitted directly into their major. If a student has a GPA below 2.8, he/she
can come and then be admitted later. ABET accreditation went well. Oakland has a new
dean from San Diego State. The also have a new education building. Enrollments are up
with 2200 in Engineering. The president has set a goal of 20,000 by 2010. They’ve built
a second golf course on campus and have a new PhD program in Mechanical. Oakland is
in its 3rd year of a relationship with Macomb Community College.
Western Michigan University
Enrollments are steady at about 30,000. A New Civil program has been approved.
Admission to the Materials program has been suspended for an indefinite period.
Chemical and Paper Engineering program will be visited by ABET this fall 2002. 2003
is Western’s 100th year. The new Parkview campus will open next fall 2003.