Community colleges play an important largely unheralded role in engineering education many students a good portion of them from groups that are underrepresented in the engineering workforce who turn to community colleges to start their postsecondary education are not aware that they can earn a bs degree in engineering through the community college pathway. Enhancing the community college pathway to engineering careers a new book from the national academy of engineering and the national research council discusses ways to improve the transfer experience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhance partnerships between those colleges and four year engineering schools to help students transfer more smoothly in particular the book focuses on challenges and opportunities for improving transfer between community colleges . Enhancing the community college pathway to engineering careers a new book from the national academy of engineering and the national research council discusses ways to improve the transfer experience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhance partnerships between those colleges and four year engineering schools to help students transfer more smoothly in particular the book focuses on challenges and opportunities for improving transfer between community colleges . Enhancing the community college pathway to engineering careers a new book from the national academy of engineering and the national research council discusses ways to improve the transfer experience for students at community colleges and offers strategies to enhance partnerships between those colleges and four year engineering schools to help students transfer more smoothly. Download citation enhancing the community college pathway to engineering careers community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road to engineering careers but students