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Team Members
Jeff Froyd
Texas A&M University
Dwight Look College of Engineering
MS 3128
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Phone: (979) 845-7574
Fax: (979) 847-8654
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Carolyn Clark
Texas A&M University
Educational Human Resource Development
MS 3256
College Station, TX 77843-3256
Phone: (979) 845- 4086
Fax:
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Prudence Merton
Texas A&M University
Educational Human Resource Development
MS 3126
College Station, TX 77843- 3126
Phone: (979) 845- 4086
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Jim Richardson
University of Alabama
Department of Civil Engineering
Telephone: (205) 348-1708
Fax: (2050 348-0783
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Objective
Examine processes through which coalition partner institutions have initiated and attempted to sustain curricular change.
Process
The project is organized as series of six qualitative case studies that examine curricular change at each of the partner institutions. Data for each case study is collected through interviews of approximately twenty key faculty and administrators as well as review of relevant documentation. Each case study identifies critical events and salient issues involved in that process, as well as valuable lessons each institution learned from their experience. Interviews have been conducted at six institutions and case study reports have been prepared for three of the six institutions.
The project will also review relevant literature on change.
Conference Papers
- Merton, Prudence, Carolyn Clark, Jim Richardson, and Jeffrey Froyd, "Engineering Curricula Change across the Foundation Coalition: How They Succeeded, What They Learned, Proceedings, 2000 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educators, Albuquerque, NM, 24-28 June 2001
- Merton, Prudence, Carolyn Clark, Jim Richardson, and Jeffrey Froyd, "Engineering Curricular Change across the Foundation Coalition: Potential Lessons from Qualitative Research," Proceedings, 2001 Frontiers in Education Conference, to appear
Workshops
- Invited Workshop on Change, Resistance and Leadership, National Science Foundation, 7 May 2001 (link to Power Point presentation)
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Invited Workshop on Change, Resistance and Leadership, National Science Foundation, 7 May 2001
Planned Deliverables
- Case report on the development of TIDE (Teaming, Integration, Design and Engineering), the first-year curriculum at the University of Alabama
- Case report on the development of sophomore engineering science curriculum at Texas A&M University
- Case report on the development of the sophomore engineering curriculum at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Case report on the development of EnGAGE, the first-year curriculum at Arizona State University
- Case report on the development of IMPULSE (Integrated Mathematics, Physics, Undergraduate Laboratory Sciences, and Engineering), the first-year curriculum at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
- Case report on the development of LINKS, the first-year curriculum at University of Wisconsin
- Workshop on Curricular Change, Resistance and Leadership at Workshop on Implementing Curricular Change in Engineering Education, Union College, 19-20 October 2001
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