Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

, supporting processes, and infrastructure design to prepare,deliver, and maintain asynchronous educational products. Currently, the technologicalcapabilities for delivery of asynchronous education have outstripped the ability tomaximize those advanced technologies. To help understand this rift between technologyand our ability to deploy that technology this paper examines three critical areas. First,the distinctions between asynchronous, distance (interactive televised), and liveinstruction are examined from a perspective of immediacy. Second, based on initialexperiences in preparation and delivery of asynchronous education, a systemic issuesperspective is developed. Finally, implications of systems design principles are presentedas a guide for more

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

family, a first year student wrote: I learned about balancing an engineering career, while being a female (a mother and a wife), which is very important to me! Increasing self-confidence. While there is evidence that the students who sign up withMentorNet begin the program with a high rate of self-confidence, a final and strong theme fromthe evaluation was the, perhaps additional, impact MentorNet had on the students’ self-confidence and resilience due to the personal encouragement they received from their mentors.This is an important outcome of the MentorNet program since low self-confidence has beenidentified as one of the key factors that contribute to women’s exodus from technical andscientific fields. In addition, the