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)

unrestricted face-to-face communication between home and field teams. Studentperformance was assessed by evaluating quizzes, group presentations, and project reports.Interpretations of student performance in terms of personality and cognitive style indicators forboth the control and test groups indicated that effective group interactions are a key to thesuccessful completion of integrated projects in a distance engineering environment. Studentjournals and survey responses indicated that students found the introduction to remotecommunication technologies to be valuable. The results demonstrate the importance ofintegrating distance engineering applications and information technology into the undergraduatecurriculum.1. Introduction An increasing