This report is based on data from the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES), administered to engineering students at 21 U.S. engineering colleges and schools in the spring of 2008. The first comprehensive set of analyses completed on the APPLES dataset presented here looks at how engineering students experience their…

The current generation of students coming into food science and engineering programs is very visually oriented from their early experiences. To increase their interest in learning, new and visually appealing teaching materials need to be developed. Two diverse groups of students may be identified based on their math skills. Food science students…

This paper aims to find out two outcomes of feedback in the novice writers' graphic organizers, which are the novice writers' ability to align their ideas to their writing goal, and their perceived germane, metacognitive, extraneous and intrinsic cognitive loads when generating and revising ideas based on the feedback. Data was gathered from the…

This document is a product of the workshop convened by the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate. The 43 participants representing industry, government, education, private foundations, professional societies, and the Engineering Deans Council were charged to accept as given the consensus reflected in the reports of the past ten years…

Analyzes Heathkit's multi-sensor educational robot (Hero-l), which, unlike most industrial manipulators, is capable of moving using a set of wheels. Includes discussions of its mobility, arm manipulation, applications for controlling specific robot tasks, future research directions, and Hero-l limitations. (JN)

Discusses the nature of adjoint variables (the sensitivity coefficients in optimal search problems) and their role in optimal reactors in chemical engineering. (JN)

There is a need in engineering for adult education. Continuing Engineering Studies (CES) is trying to fill that need responsibly and conscientiously. (MR)

Engineering libraries and information courses should be better utilized so that engineering literature ceases to stand apart from lectures, laboratory and practice. (IR)