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)

establish a foundation upon which distance engineering concepts can be further integrated into the curriculum. These objectives are intended to provide a framework for expanding the use of distanceengineering techniques in student projects completed at the regional scale, the national scale, andeven the global scale through WPI’s Global Studies Program. The role of distance engineering isinvestigated by integrating remote communication technologies into CE 1030, an introductoryfreshman-level civil and environmental engineering (CEE) course at WPI. After a briefdescription of this course, this paper presents the technology and instructional model used inmodifying CE 1030 to achieve these objectives. The role of distance engineering in