Discusses short, informal student writing assignments in chemical engineering designed to reinforce chemical engineering concepts relevant to course material, promote creative thinking, and lighten more serious students. (MKR)

Provides the framework that was used to incorporate journal writing into chemical engineering courses. Presents examples of student writing to illustrate the benefits of informal writing. (JRH)

Summarizes the five-year effort of a preengineering program to improve the recruitment and retention of underrepresented college students to pursue degrees in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology at The University of Akron. Assesses the university's successful operation of the special high school Upward Bound and preengineering…

Employs data from the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program and Minority Fellowship Program to examine several factors affecting science and engineering doctoral awards for women and minorities. After controlling for Graduate Record Examination scores, field of study, and undergraduate grade point average, large sex and race…

Describes a laboratory activity involving a mathematical model of cooking potatoes that can be solved analytically. Highlights the microstructure aspects of the experiment. Provides the key aspects of the results, detailed background readings, laboratory procedures and data analyses. (MM)

An ethnographic study of medical lab, engineering, and computer technicians found that, despite the common influence of technology, there were differences depending on context in technicians' interactions with clients, place in the professional hierarchy, and occupational identity. (Contains 22 references.) (SK)

Discusses the impact of information communication technology (ICT) on the provision of tertiary education and cites the course as an example of how it can be used at the subject level. Emphasizes that ICT is a powerful tool for teaching and learning and employs ICT in a number of different ways in the course. (Author/YDS)

Explains distance education approach applied to the 'Engineering Design Problem Formulation' course simultaneously at the Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) and at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA). Uses video taped lessons, video conferencing, electronic mails and web-accessible document management system LIRE in the…

Describes the relationship between engineering and technological literacy, criteria used by the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology, and the role of professional engineering societies in promoting technological literacy. (SK)

Offers ways of applying science and technology studies to the teaching of engineering ethics. Suggests modifications of both detailed case studies on engineering disasters and hypothetical, ethical dilemmas employed in engineering ethics classes. (Author/CCM)

Suggests that it takes more than a good undergraduate education to get the most out of graduate school. Provides advice and recommendations to science and engineering graduate students. (Author/CCM)

Examines the effects of gender on career commitment, success, satisfaction, and involvement in engineering, and the effects of personality and work environment on these variables. Uses statistical and descriptive methods to determine the relationship among these variables. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/YDS)

Summarizes the report given to the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) who is developing new guidelines for instruction in mathematics with a chemical engineering group at Clemson University in order to list specific knowledge and skills in mathematics needed by engineering…

Describes an innovative approach to induction in an engineering school. Uses a constructivist approach to involve students, working in small groups with a staff facilitator, in the investigation of a technical issue. (Author/MM)

Presents a collection of regional papers that give an overview of the present state of ethics teaching in engineering curricula. Provides historical information concerning the motivation for and the development of engineering ethics, points to important topics and trends that arise from the papers, and identifies the main challenges for the…