Engineering Academy (EA) Design and Operation

An Engineering Academy (EA) is a cooperative agreement between a four-year engineering college and a two-year college designed to reach the students that regularly encounter challenges transitioning to the four-year college directly after high school.The students spend up to two years co-enrolled at both the two-year school and the four-year school and attend classes on the two-year school campus taught by the two-year school's professors.The students also attend an engineering course on the two-year campus taught in-person by a professor from the four-year school. [1] [2]The EA concept was initiated in Fall 2015 with a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Texas A&M University and Blinn College.Unique transition articulation agreements are established for each EA to best support transfer of student course credits to include a reverse articulation agreement such that students may transfer four-year school course credit to the twoyear school in order to meet the requirements for their Associates Degree.