How do engineering faculty use instructional technology?

Abstract

The Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED) was an NSF-sponsored engineering education coalition that functioned from 1992 through 2002, comprising eight engineering schools that accounted for approximately 1/13 of all U.S. engineering degrees awarded. As part of its ongoing program assessment activities, SUCCEED periodically surveyed the 1600+ engineering faculty members on its member campuses to assess their usage of various teaching practices and their opinions about the importance of teaching at their institution. Surveys conducted in 1999 and in 2002 specifically addressed uses of technology-based methods in both on-campus and off-campus course offerings. This paper briefly outlines the survey response analysis methodology and summarizes the principal results related to technology use.