Recognizing that an array of products is necessary to reach the various audiences and their stages of involvement, we have produced a variety of products this year and will continue to do so in Year 9. This year will see the production and distribution of:

Brochures and one-page summaries of several of the FC core competencies, including cooperative learning, teaming, and technology use. These will help faculty members who know little or nothing about the core competencies espoused by the FC reach a point where they can begin to apply them and know where to seek more in-depth information.

• Narratives on how curricular change actually happened on our campuses. The volume of interviews and material that is being generated is comparable to two learning histories on change in the corporate world that have recently been published; this effort promises to become one of the seminal efforts to study curricular change in engineering education.

• Assessment and evaluation overviews, success stories, processes, and materials

• Assessment instruments that test students' conceptual understanding of engineering concepts in disciplines such as thermodynamics, electromagnetics, and strength of materials. These instruments will be unveiled in a special session at the 2001 Frontiers in Education meeting. Field testing of these instruments at a greater number of institutions will begin in year nine.

• Curriculum modules that fit into any upper-level engineering course and that deal explicitly with one or more of the EC2000 "a-through-k" criteria. These will be presented to the community through workshops at the Best Assessment Practices Symposium in April and at the ASEE Annual Meeting in June.

• The FC Web site has been extensively redesigned this year, which involved reviewing over 6000 existing web pages to generate a common format for dissemination of all FC information and philosophical perspectives. Materials currently include streaming video, video instruction models, downloadable copies of FC publications and brochures, online search capabilities, online discussion forums and chat options, password-protected areas, and survey/quizzing capabilities.

• Four CDs will be produced this year for distribution to various audiences. Topics include:

  General information on the FC Assessment and evaluation The core competencies of the FC Cooperative learning.