Feeds: From Technology To The Learner

The Florida Engineering Education Delivery System (FEEDS) has been delivering engineering graduate courses, including four graduate engineering management programs, the last 22 years to help engineers and other industry professionals meet the challenges of obtaining a graduate degree and new skills. In addition, for the last 14 years engineering technology courses and degrees have been included. FEEDS operates under the policy guidance and direction of the Florida Council of Deans, representing 11 private and public engineering colleges in the state. As FEEDS uses the latest technologies to serve hundreds of students each year, an effort to expand and coordinate learner support services has lagged behind. This paper gives FEEDS statistics and a focus of this paper addresses an implementation outline for a learner component of FEEDS from the Engineering Management degree perspective. Once students have made the decision to take courses at a distance, a different support is needed from the face-to-face students. This support is both academic and non-academic and needs to be designed for both graduate and undergraduate students.