Gateway coalition: bringing it together

Using the combination of an informal panel structure and multimedia short clips (computer and/or video based) to introduce/illustrate topics and examples, the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition describes and engages the audience in discussion of the issues, efforts, and successes of its program as it is moving into the phase of bringing the parts together to address the engineering educational enterprise broadly. Within its primary foci of curricular development, human potential development, and education technologies and methodologies are many sub-unit issues for consideration as a group of ten institutions, and their faculties, work together across institutional boundaries to develop models and implement institutional change. The Coalition describes a number of these efforts, illustrates how these are brought together to affect institutional change, the difficulties as well as the means to address these hurdles and engages the audience in a discussion which is intended to support the efforts of others who may wish to follow similar paths of educational change. The concepts and subject matter of the session are linked with the Coalition's exhibit displaying projects and products in electronic and hard copy formats.