Resources

Online Educational Resources

  • MERLOT - Mulitmedia Educational Resource contains a collection of engineering and science software and applets
  • NEEDS - NEEDS is a digital library designed for engineering faculty and students of all ages with links to online learning materials in engineering and related areas of science and math.
  • CACHE - Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering, is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote cooperation among universities, industry and government in the development and distribution of computer-related and/or technology-based educational aids for the chemical engineering profession.
  • Foundation Coalition - engineering coalition established by the NSF as an agent of systemic renewal for the engineering educational community and contains many online engineering education resources and information

Engineering Education Journals and Professional Societies

  • JEE - Journal of Engineering Education
  • ASEE - American Society for Engineering Education
  • JCE - Journal of Chemical Education
  • IEEE Transactions in Education
  • AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • ABET - Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

Education Research

Engineering Education Research

  • Richard Felder's Home Page
  • Teaching Engineering by Phillip C. Wankat and Frank S. Oreovicz. Available to read online!
    P. Wankat, F. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, Mcgraw-Hill, 1992.
  • Problem-Based Learning (PBL) - Don Wood's website describes PBL and provides additional PBL resources.
  • Educating the Engineer of 2020 - This book offers recommendations on how to enrich and broaden engineering education so graduates are better prepared to work in a constantly changing global economy. Available to read online!
    Committee on the Engineer of 2020, Phase II, Committee on Engineering Education, National Academy of Engineering, Educating the Engineer of 2020. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2005.

General Education Research

  • How People Learn - This book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain and discusses new evidence from many branches of science that have significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know. Available to read online!
    J. Bransford, A. Brown, and R. Cocking, How People Learn. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
  • Knowing What Student Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment - This book explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. Available to read online!
    J.W. Pelligrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser, Knowing What Student Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001.
  • Experience Based Learning Systems - Kolb website contains useful information concerning the theory of experiential learning, and promoting its implementation.