Since Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) was first introduced as the standard for American engineering education programs, most discussion in the literature has focused on how to assess Outcomes 3a-3k (specific outcomes or abilities engineering students must acquire as defined by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) and…

This study sets out the institutional educational project for undergraduate students. At the same time, the authors have tried to adapt the current study programs to the extraordinary scientific and technological development in the second half of the 20th century. The paper tries to integrate various sources. Written documents and the structure of…

UnicenP's First Engineering Games took place in October of 1999, and consisted of three tasks designed by engineering faculty which involved all courses taught in first year. Teams were made up of students from all four Engineering programs currently offered by the institution. The games occurred over a period of three days and proved a successful…

In this work a tentative approach is described, with the intent of an optimized insertion of the environmental contents in engineering courses, using the existing disciplines, and with a minimal, if any, increase of the disciplines related to environmental protection. The disciplines are firstly classified with regard to the environmental issues…

This data brief presents the results of the 1997 Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR). The survey questions target information on the labor market outcomes of recent doctorate holders. The results of the science and engineering (S&E) doctorate holders survey point out a difference between initial plans and employment due to changing plans during…

Universities are the highest level of the Czech school education system, as well as important scientific institutions that are granted full autonomy under the law. There are five technical universities and one military school with technical courses in the Czech Republic. Until the 1990s, the universities had provided only the five years magister…

Aiming at turning theory of structures into a captivating subject to civil engineering students and at helping them understand the link between the mathematical models and the real structures, a new experience is underway at the Department of Structural and Foundation Engineering of Excola Politecnica da Universidada de Sao Paulo: transparencies…

This document presents statistical information on earned degrees in the United States from 1991-2000 based on race and ethnicity data obtained from two surveys, bachelor's and master's degree data from the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Completions Survey and doctoral degree data from the…

Electronic mentoring (e-mentoring) programs are providing unprecedented opportunities for establishing mentoring relationships. E-mentoring is the merger of mentoring with electronic communications and links mentors with proteges independent of geography or scheduling constraints. In this case study, the authors apply a model of structured…

The House Science Committee held a hearing on the enhanced security measures foreign students and scholars in science, mathematics, and engineering face when they apply for a visa and subsequently enroll in an academic or exchange program in the United States. This hearing was the second in a series on the need for balance between heightened…

During the fall of 2000, first and second year engineering students were observed throughout the semester as they interacted in engineering design teams. Eighty women and 258 men signed the consent form to participate in the study. The observational protocol that was used was based on L. Eberhardt's 10 categories of team functions, which are…

This brief describes graduate enrollment increases in the science and engineering fields, especially in engineering and computer sciences. Graduate student enrollment is summarized by enrollment status, citizenship, race/ethnicity, and fields. (KHR)

The Colorado School of Mines is in the 4th year of a comprehensive curriculum revision process. After refining the mission statement and graduate profile, the school has developed and begun to implement a new undergraduate curriculum which features design-across-the-curriculum, a sequence of "systems" courses, an enhanced and integrated…

Students enrolled to degree programs in 1997 will become the first graduates of the 21st century. Engineering courses in the School of Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University have changed immensely in the last two years, so as to support new markets. Disciplines such as industrial engineering, electronics and computing have enjoyed their…

This report presents detailed statistical trends in doctorate rewards by science and engineering (S&E). The data were collected by the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) and identify field and recipient characteristics, institutions awarding doctorates, and post graduation plans of recipients. Tables include: (1) S&E doctorates awarded by…