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Engineering
Phone: 831.479.6497
Location: Aptos
Campus, Rm. 715B
Cabrillo College offers a
comprehensive engineering program that prepares students
for transfer with full junior standing to four-year engineeering
colleges in California and across the United States.
Presently, California universities that grant BS degrees
in engineering count on community colleges to provide
approximately 50% of their junior class.
Cabrillo College's engineering
program began in 1960, the second year of the college's
operation. Cabrillo is the only community college in
the tri-county area (Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito)
that presents a complete lower division engineering program.
The program presently transfers more than 50 students
each year into the engineering pipeline.
Cabrillo's engineering program
provides the facilities, equipment and teaching faculty
to present the very
finest lower division engineering education to
the greatest number of students, so they can transfer and successfully complete
a degree in engineering. This program is the integral part of the Cabrillo's
college-wide transfer mission and is highly respected by the four-year engineering
colleges throughout California. |
Cabrillo engineering students, who have gone
on to earn their degrees from more than 30 four-year engineering
universities, have made a major impact on Santa Cruz county
as they have
returned to occupy a wide range of positions in the public
and private sectors of business and professional life
in our area. Many have assisted in providing part-time
and
summer
jobs for current engineering students, who, in turn,
have made
a significant contribution to the local technical community.
Alumni are employed in professional practice throughout
the state, nation and even abroad. Former students are
a major
source of gifts to the engineering scholarship fund and
have endowed other awards.
All the diversity of the student population are
present in the engineering student body. The exact numbers
for all areas
fluctuate widely from term to term and subject to subject.
We see an age range from 18 to well over 40; an ethnic
range including Latino, African-American, Japanese,
Chinese, Southeastern
Asian, Middle-Eastern, Native-American; and economic
and educational abilities ranges from top to bottom.
The Cabrillo
Engineering
Society brings students with diverse talents together.
Cabrillo's engineering coursework follows a pattern
established by the California Engineering Liaison
Committee (ELC).
Cabrillo engineering has been a major player in this
group for a third
of a century. Our students have been able to transfer
to any campus of their choice and complete the required
program
in
the same time span, and with equal or greater success,
as the students who start at the four-year schools.
Last updated: 01/24/06 |
