Conference Session

The Year of Dialogue: What We Have Learned So Far

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Ronald Barr, University of Texas at Austin

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Campus Representatives

in K-12 reform, since it impacts engineering educationat the college level. K-12 is the pipeline and lifeblood for what engineering educators do andhow it affects the technology base of this country. Indeed, ASEE has already begun to try andimpact K-12 through a number of initiatives including the all day seminar initiated at the pastthree national conferences. The YOD on the other hand was an attempt to get a handle on thevarious aspects of engineering education through research and to build on the momentum startedby such schools as Purdue and Virginia Tech, which have started engineering educationprograms. The RAGS report and the YOD events, as envisioned, were two very different things,but they were and are very much entwined and the