The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside's engineering department uses computer-assisted learning in to optimize lecturers' and tutors' time, allowing students to learn at their own pace and enabling lecturers to direct teaching to the weakest areas. Cost savings resulted from a greater number of students taught more efficiently. (SK)

An analysis of 4,780 citations taken from scholarly journals in 16 areas of engineering showed that journals are cited 53% of the time; electrical engineering literature has the shortest "half-life"; and literature types age at different rates for engineering researchers, with books having the longest useful lives and conference papers the…

Presents a proposed course in Engineering Graphics at the University of Louisville that integrates an innovative approach to design for manufacturing of new products with traditional topics on engineering graphics for manufacturing. Discusses the content of the course and its role in enhancing a student's competitive edge for the job market.…

Supports Paul Ramsden's "call" to look beyond students' approaches to learning towards their perceptions of the educational context. The article, however, refutes Ramsden's suggestions for an analysis of student perceptions as being somewhat limited and present a method that is more qualitatively and linguistically grounded. This method was used…

Explains how individuals trained to be physicists take a path to become engineers and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this transformation, particularly with regard to the term "renaissance engineer." Examines the system for registration of physicists as engineers in the United Kingdom. (Author/YDS)

States that engineering students, faculty, and administration agree that writing instruction is important in engineering education. Suggests that, as an alternative to technical writing, if students learn how to approach an issue, form an arguable idea, then logically prove it, this deep level of writing/thinking comprehension can be used to…

Identifies a process developed in recent research to provide curriculum leaders and policymakers with a practical and flexible approach for designing and implementing curriculum. Investigates the engineering education context to identify issues that impinge on curriculum decision-making including the consideration of professional engineering…

Discusses how the definition of educational objectives led to the introduction of practical training that is compulsory or advised in many engineering curricula and defined as "learning to put knowledge and skills into practice". Introduces an assessment procedure that allows for testing whether students have met the objectives.…

Discusses the difficulties many chemical engineering faculty face in assessing learning outcomes of education and explains the steps of rubric development which aims to assess students based on individual outcomes. (Contains 17 references.) (YDS)

Describes the Students-Recruiting-Students (SRS) program developed to recruit high school students into the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas. Presents four phases of the program along with seven years of program results. Encourages successful development of similar recruiting programs. (KHR)

Administered Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices to 342 young adult engineering students in South Africa (198 Africans; 86 Whites). Data confirm the magnitude of the African-White IQ gap and that the differences on various items are positively correlated with the "g" loading for those items. (SLD)

The object of the unorthodox and popular course is to teach students how to be innovative and entrepreneurial, take intelligent risks, and be creative. Students must create a consumer product or service and market it, using academic and personal experience of successes and failures for insight. (MSE)

Investigated problem- and solution-related activity of (n=28) fourth and fifth graders in ill-defined and open-ended settings. In the course of their negotiations, students demonstrated an uncanny competence to frame and reframe problems and solutions and to decide courses of actions of different complexities in spite of the ambiguous nature of…

Discusses the Kettering ignition system used on all vehicles for about a half century and transistorized automotive ignition systems. (JRH)

Groundwater remedial actions are highly complex projects. During the past 10 years, many remedial actions have begun, but very few have been successfully completed. This paper describes the complexity of groundwater remediation and offers an alternative management approach involving systems movement successfully utilized at a site in the…