Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

appropriateinfrastructure in place, and ensuring that faculty receive formal training in distance educationmethods and technology 20.Considerable research has focused on assessing distance education practices, and a number ofpublications have examined this topic in terms of what faculty can do to improve the educationalexperience for students: “What determines the success of distance teaching is the extent to whichthe institution and the individual instructor are able to provide the appropriate opportunity for,and quality of, dialogue between teacher and learner, as well as appropriately structured learningmaterials” 15, p. 6. However, tension can also exist between faculty and instructional designpersonnel. Whereas the ideal relationship would be one of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management / IE and EM Program Mangement / Engineering Management Program Management

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Raymond Price, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

regarding the need to modify the engineering curriculum in order to betterprepare engineering graduates to face the new challenges that the current engineeringenvironment presented. In 1994, “industry and academe realized that their concerns were thesame, [therefore] they began to mobilize through ABET, the organization responsible for settingthe standards of engineering education” (ABET, 2004, p. 1). As a result, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) acknowledged this call from industry andeducational leaders, and started working towards changing the standards of engineeringeducation in order to guarantee that engineering students not only have an education in thetechnical disciplines of engineering but also in human