Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Galloway, The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

and enacting change-through original research, through curricula reform, through the innovative design of newfacilities and by emphasizing engineering experience, both within the classroom and outside it inorder to graduate a “Renaissance Engineer of 2020 who can respond to the global technology,economic, and societal challenges of the 21st Century.22The University of Wisconsin at Madison offers a master of engineering in professional practice(MEPP), which is closely aligned with both my proposed master’s degree and the attendantproposed method of education. The MEPP is an online degree that is designed to enable thepractitioner to advance his or her career as an engineering leader by participating in the advancededucational program while

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

for educational initiatives by exploring how thevarious design features of each of these applications may support and enhance the design ofinteractive learning environments.Some further study is already in place to see how students learn in virtual reality environmentsby contrasting designer’s expectations to students’ perceptions (Martens et al.[6]). They actuallyare showing a gap between these as students experience much less authenticity than developersassume, and in general, high expectations are often not fulfilled. The work of Foster[4] is a goodexample of efforts to develop standards and best practices for this new platform in teaching. Hedescribes a recent project (called Immersive Education) to develop virtual-reality software