Several years ago a senior APS colleague challenged the leaders of academic programs to critically think about a preferred future for ensuring that there is not only the capability, but also the willingness to recognize and reform and/or reframe higher education programs within FANRRS to meet the challenges of "preparing society ready…

The Department of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University (EWU) offers a bachelor of arts degree in visual communication design and bachelor of science degrees in mechanical engineering technology, manufacturing technology, construction technology, design technology, electrical engineering, computer engineering technology and…

This document provides information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. It includes figures and tables displaying a variety of statistical information about each of these groups, and its primary purpose is to serve as an information source It offers no…

Edward Berger describes a pilot project implemented in an undergraduate engineering mechanics course, entitled Strength of Materials to investigate whether and how students would perceive a benefit from podcasting as a pedagogical tool. Three types of podcasting content were produced: (a) video problem solutions, (b) roundtable discussions, and…

Over the past decade the software products available for solid modeling, dynamic, stress, thermal, and flow analysis, and computer-aiding manufacturing (CAM) have become more powerful, affordable, and easier to use. At the same time it has become increasingly important for students to gain concurrent engineering design and systems integration…

Learner-centred approaches follow the prevailing tendency in modern University reforms which are primarily concerned about "how people learn". The methodologies can be learner-centred in the sense of placing the student as the main actor of the teaching-learning process by increasing his interactivity and participation, but also…

Paper presented at Symposium on the Application of Technology to Education, Washington, D.C., September 9-10, 1968.

The process control sequence at Auburn University consists of two four-credit hour lecture courses and a two-credit hour laboratory course. Descriptions of the courses and of the laboratory are provided. Various comments about the sequence are included. Authors report that students are better prepared in process control under this sequence. (JN)

The connection between single phase transport phenomena and multiphase transport phenomena is easily accomplished by means of the spatial averaging theorem. Although different routes to the theorem have been used, this paper provides a route to the averaging theorem that can be used in undergraduate classes. (JN)

This article describes a series of energy conversion experiments in the senior laboratory course at the University of California, Berkeley. (IR)

In this paper, we analyse a collective approach towards enhancing undergraduate Engineering Education. All the authors, both engineers and faculty developers, have, at some point in this collaboration, been involved in the vision, development or implementation. Our desire is to demonstrate the incremental nature of the process as well as evidence…

Engineering student teams from Worcester Polytechnic Institute complete projects proposed by Norton Company and are advised by faculty and employees. Unlike cooperative education, the projects satisfy degree requirements, and students are not paid by the company. (SK)

Proposes a way to improve the quality of statistics teaching to undergraduate engineering students. Teaching quality can be understood as a goal to be achieved in three nurtured phases: (1) course planning; (2) adoption of methodological approach; and (3) evaluation of results. (Author/SAH)