The intent of this agreement between the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Engineering and Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) is to increase the number and quality of students matriculating from DCCCD into engineering disciplines at UNT. Concomitantly, this agreement is designed to foster enhanced transfer processes for Dallas County Community College students pursuing Associate degrees in engineering.

This agreement recognizes the following terms and conditions:

1. Representatives from UNT’s and DCCCD’s admission’s staff, academic advisors, and engineering faculty will collaborate to select students for the program and will provide advising to students in the program.
2. DCCCD will send their engineering faculty members to ABET (Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology) training workshops and initiate other appropriate processes to facilitate the goal of ABET accreditation for Dallas County Community College’s engineering program.
3. The University of North Texas College of Engineering faculty and staff will provide support to Dallas County Community College District’s engineering faculty with respect to attainment of ABET accreditation by facilitating workshops on ABET’s outcomes based assessment and CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement), and through the sharing of course syllabi and other pertinent ABET related material.
4. Students who successfully complete Dallas County Community College’s Associate of Science degrees in Engineering and Engineering Technology will be able to transfer credit hours to UNT. The transfer courses should meet UNT College of Engineering core required GPA and the minimum grade per course for transferring to the College of Engineering curriculum.
5. The UNT – DCCCD Equivalencies Transfer Guides, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit A, will be reviewed and updated by DCCCD and UNT faculty and advisors on at least a yearly basis. The Dean of Engineering Technology at DCCCD and the Dean of the College of Engineering at UNT will approve changes.
6. DCCCD students participating in the program will have rights and privileges as described in the UNT–DCCCD Articulation Agreement (Dated September 1, 2000).
7. DCCCD students successfully completing the Associate of Science degree program according to the specified guidelines and who maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 in transferable hours will gain automatic admission into UNT’s College of Engineering.
8. Participating program students who successfully transfer to UNT are allowed to reverse transfer courses taken at UNT back to DCCCD to complete the Associate degree(s) in Engineering provided that 25% of their course work for their DCCCD degree is completed at DCCCD.
9. The progress of this program will be monitored by both institutions and may be revised by mutual agreement at any time. Either party may terminate this agreement at any time when the said party believes that termination is in the best interest of all parties concerned. Those students already participating in the program at the time of termination will have their coursework honored.
10. A copy of the Memorandum of Understanding and Articulation Agreement along with the UNT – DCCCD Equivalencies Transfer Guides will be kept in the offices of Academic Affairs and Transfer Programs at DCCCD and the College of Engineering at UNT.
11. Annually, the two institutions will share data related to the enrollment, scholastic progress, and academic performance of former and active cooperative students in order to evaluate the success of this program.
    
    Dallas County Community College District 
    
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    Dr. Jesus "Jess" Carreon            Date
    Chancellor
    
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    Dr. Richard McCrary                 Date
    Interim Vice-Chancellor
    Educational Affairs
    
    University of North Texas
    
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    Dr. Norval Pohl                        Date
    President 
       
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    Dr. Howard Johnson                 Date
    Provost and VP
    Academic Affairs 
        
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    Dr. Oscar Garcia                     Date
    Dean College of Engineering