Dean Emeritus of engineering discusses attributes of effective teachers. (MLH)

Reviews experiences in teaching computer programing to engineering freshmen at the University of Oklahoma. Focuses on the stimulating interactive environment that is possible when using the UNIX operating system to introduce students to programing. (JN)

Throughout the United States, state legislative bodies, university governing boards, and regional and professional accreditation organizations are increasingly requiring universities and colleges to demonstrate that they have appropriate self-regulating processes is place to achieve their stated missions and goals. Central to these processes in…

The main proposal of this paper is to present research performed during a practical subject in the last year of the electrical engineer undergraduate course, emphasis in electrotechnics, at the Universidade Sao Judas Tadeu. Several activities are developed to provide the students variable and continued information about their performance in many…

This pedagogical training approach is presented based on an engineering degree and oriented towards the tasks and the expected job profile of an engineer in a company's research and development department. The pedagogical approach is based on two different types of learning: self-controlled individual learning right on the job while fulfilling…

The experience described in this work was conducted in a discipline at Escola Politecnica in University of Sao Paulo. This discipline has a multidisciplinary character and almost all subjects discussed during engineering course might be addressed. Also, aspects related to aptitude and attitudes can be easily trained and discussed in this…

Describes the cooperation of Colorado State University (CSU) with local" colleges to provide instruction through Cooperation via Televised Instruction in Education" for pre-engineering students prior to transfer to CSU. (TS)

Briefly traces history of farm mechanics programs and discusses the changing terminology, policies, and objectives in planning and teaching the programs. (SB)

Problems concerning the lecture method are deliniated and suggestions are made to increase learning efficiency. (BB)

Discusses problems of teaching by PSI (Personalized System of Instruction), including costs, student procrastination, excessive grading, and demands on faculty time. (MLH)

A newly developed measure to identify students' preferred teaching approaches was evaluated with 175 engineering and education undergraduates at an Israeli university. Students in both fields preferred lecturers who were organized, clear, and interesting. Least favored teaching methods were information-transmission and promotion of…

Outlines the need for and role of undergraduate human factors education, including evidence that students are unfamiliar with, but interested in, human factors issues. Describes several activities found to be successful in teaching human factors and identifies benefits students associated with a course on the topic. (DSK)

Presents an approach to the teaching of engineering that uses the ideas about the teaching of academic subject matter developed by D. Ausubel. Identifies a threat to higher education in the lack of knowledge of the relationship between research and teaching in engineering and science and remarks on the absence of a corpus of work related to…