Engineering Education
Magazine
Follow the Evidence
Discipline-based education research dispels myths about learning and yields results – if only educators would use it. OPINION BY SUSAN SINGER & KARL SMITH Last year, the National Research Council…
Category: Last Word
Why the Double Standard?
When we urge students to become P.E.’s, we should lead by example. OPINION BY ROB LANG & KIRANKUMAR TOPUDURTI Engineering faculty members often stress to students the importance of a…
Silver Bullets of Retention
OPINION BY JAMES E. MOORE II AND LOUISE YATES Build a community, and pay attention to data. A flood of recent headlines focused on the problems of retaining and graduating…
Don’t Get Lost In Translation
OPINION BY JOSEPH UNTENER In exchanges with China, both sides can adapt. In times of rapid growth, we are likely to feel growing pains and get some things wrong. So…
This Time, Let’s Make Progress
OPINION BY BEVLEE WATFORD ASEE has a new chance to promote diversity. While my husband and I were building a home, we used to visit the construction site on weekends…
It Takes An Engineer
Experience in practice matters more than a Ph.D. in teaching undergraduates. If you want to prepare undergraduates to practice engineering, then most engineering faculty should have significant experience as practicing…
Adding Value To Teaching
BY DEBBIE CHACHRA What can we offer that students can’t get online? One of the most profound effects of the Internet is the democratization of knowledge. So why are we…
Creative Disruption
If we want more and better engineers, our education system needs a shake-up. Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School has articulated the difference between “sustaining” innovation and “disruptive” innovation:…
Re-engineering Engineering
BY NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE 21st-century needs can’t be met with just a four-year degree. Distance is Dead. So wrote Frances Cairncross in The Economist. One consequence is that routine engineering…
LAST WORD: The U.S. Edge in Education
BY RICHARD H. BRODHEAD Years of focus on increasing diversity in our universities has convinced me that elementary school is the time to start building the foundation for an engineering…