Engineering Design – On Line

Transforming engineering curriculum to an on-line asynchronous format presents many challenges and opportunities. Engineering design has typically been taught as a collaborative interactive course at Iowa State University where student involvement and engagement was promoted in face-to-face synchronous learning environments. With the dawn of e-learning, a new opportunity to reach students on-line, faculty at Iowa State University re-examined how engineering design methods and tools might be transformed to the on-line format. On-line learning provides engineers an opportunity to obtain the training they need at the point in projects where they most need it. The power of learning and using information immediately, as it is needed, is a key to the attractiveness of using the Internet as a delivery mode.