The Texas A&M faculty involved with the FIPSE project conducted workshops for science and math faculty and other personnel of LSAMP community colleges.  This collaboration encouraged ongoing collegial dialog between LSAMP community college faculty and TAMU faculty.  At these same workshops, community college faculty members were presented with in depth information relating to transfer and articulation between their college programs and the TAMU College of Engineering programs.

FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) Workshops

Web site
A FIPSE Web Board was established to promote the exchange of specific information on curriculum and pedagogic methods among partner campus faculty.   This information exchange is designed to assist with articulation between campuses, and facilitate the sharing of academic strategies in order to benefit AMP students.

Goal
To export and transplant the integrated curriculum and innovative pedagogical strategies of TAMU's freshman and sophomore engineering program into the math and science departments of institutions that feed students into TAMU's College of Engineering.

Curriculum Integration/Collaborative Learning Workshop San Antonio College Faculty were informed of new lower division engineering curriculum developments at TAMU (Foundation Coalition), and participated in a demonstration of an active learning model. Goals To improve faculty's ability to advise transfer students To provide a model for improvement of instruction via curriculum integration and active student learning. Outcome Faculty awareness levels of alternatives to traditional methods of instruction have been heightened significantly.

Active-Collaborative learning workshop TAMU-College Station Texas A&M engineering faculty/staff presented an 8 hour workshop on Active-Collaborative learning and teaming in the classroom to community college math/science and pre-engineering faculty.

Goals

1. To give community college faculty an understanding of the new engineering curriculum at Texas A&M University and how the math/science/engineering courses are integrated.
2. Discussion on how similar subjects could be integrated at community colleges. The afternoon session of the workshop addressed various concepts of Active-Collaborative Learning (ACL) and how it can be used in the typical college classroom.

Outcome
Thirty-four faculty/staff participated from various community colleges throughout the state of Texas. There was great interest in the TAMU faculty team traveling to the individual institutions to conduct more intensive workshops to their peers.