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Technology in Engineering Education: What Do the Faculty Know and Want?
Author(s) -
Chen John C.,
Ellis Mike,
Lockhart Jason,
Hamoush Sameer,
Brawner Catherine E.,
Tront Joseph G.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2000.tb00526.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , engineering education , computer science , multimedia , engineering , engineering ethics , engineering management , medical education , world wide web , psychology , pedagogy , medicine
Abstract There currently exists a great interest in integrating technology into the engineering curriculum. The Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED) has identified this topic to be one of four “focus areas” for the coalition, and is committed to supporting the effective use of technology in enhancing the learning and teaching environment. We report here the results of a survey of engineering faculty at the coalition universities to identify the training needs and present levels of experience with various technologies. The most surprising finding is that, despite the wide differences in the Coalition's colleges of engineering, the survey results are similar for all campuses. This implies that the results may be widely applicable to other universities. Generally, we found that the faculty's interest in receiving training in a specific technology is highly correlated with a low skill level for that topic, as expected. Of the ten potential workshop topics, those in highest demand include:presenting lectures or demonstrations from a computer creating, editing and incorporating multimedia into course materials creating Web pages for a course developing multimedia courseware developing a course delivered entirely via the World Wide Web developing Java applets to enhance courses holding electronic help‐sessions.