The ?Gateway Engineering Education Coalition? is a multi-institutional collaborative program headquartered at Drexel University and supported by the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. The Coalition represents a diversity of institutional cultures imbedded in regions of significantly underrepresented minority populations. Its charge has been to open new "gateways" for learning by altering engineering education from a focus on course content to a focus on the development of human resources and the broader experience in which individual curriculum parts are connected and integrated. The Coalition measures student and faculty experiences representative of the systemic and educational cultural changes being institutionalized.

The intellectual threads weave together the introduction of engineering and its functional core "up-front", unified and connected supportive knowledge "concurrently", the integrative aspects of the engineering process, multidisciplinary emphasis, and instructional technologies. To the greatest extent possible these are achieved through cross-institutional programs which lead to lowering barriers among institutions as well as within institutions.

The Role of The Gateway Coalition (Movie size: 1,375 Kb)

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