Gateway Coalition’s goal is to change the way we conduct the engineering educational process. That is, the business of engineering education, reflected not only in innovative curriculum development but also in how faculty interact with students, how students learn, and how emerging technologies are imbedded into the educational environment making it more exciting and more effective.

As we alter the educational landscape, we must address how we teach as well as what we teach, informed by a continuous quality improvement process with the discipline of asking ourselves who our audience is, what our objectives are, how we will know when we have achieved those objectives, and what tools are necessary to make those assessments.

In doing so, we strive to develop an emerging engineering professional who possesses a broad set of competencies because we have inculcated him or her, from the very first day on campus, with an understanding of the context as well as the content of their academic program and their professional endeavor. This is further achieved by making the student a collaborative contributor to the learning process through an integrated curriculum and program where we as faculty and institutional leaders help the students make the connections; synthesize as well as analyze; develop a sense of open ended inquiry, and to do so through a learning environment that fuses experiential learning with the fundamental scientific and technical principles, all within the engineering context.

Eli Fromm, Ph.D.
Roy A. Brothers Professor
Director, Gateway Coalition