Conference Session

Impact of Information Technology on Engineering Education (3215)

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Tahar El-Korchi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul P. Mathisen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Frederick L. Hart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering (CE)

freshman civilengineering course with a project-based collaborative format was modified to incorporate adistance engineering component based on a hypothesized highway design project. Studentgroups were separated into home and field teams, with home teams playing the role of designengineers located in the office, and the field teams playing the role of field engineers completingrequired field measurements and calculations. Both home and field teams were located in thecivil engineering building, but were physically separated by two floors. The test group only usedremote technologies (e.g. telephone, fax, email, file transfer, shared folder, chat, and video-conferencing) for all communication between home and field teams. A control group wasallowed