This book presents the written record of a June 3-6, 1998 conference that provided a forum for a variety of academic experiences with substantive modernization of engineering education to be shared and compared. It also contains background and scene-setting material (Ernst and Prados papers) as well as the perspectives of industry (Glenn), the National Academy of Engineering (Wulf) and the National Science Foundation (Bordogna).
The papers presented discuss how to create a change at an institution using the challenges of the engineering workplace, ABET Engineering criteria 2000 and the experiences of others. It also focuses on how to use information technology in creating a change in an institution.