Foundation Engineering Education Coalition

9802942 frirthis Coalition of七所大学：阿拉巴马大学；亚利桑那州立大学；罗斯-霍尔曼理工学院；德州农工大学；大学站;德州农工大学金斯维尔分校；马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校；和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，连同7个附属机构：马里科帕社区学院区；德克萨斯女子大学；匹兹堡大学；德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校；南达科他州矿业与技术学院；蒙特雷高等工学院（墨西哥）；和圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学（巴西）获得了为期5年的续期，以完成他们改变本科工程教育实践和文化的活动。虽然附属机构参与了联盟的工作，但它们没有得到任何联邦基金的支助。基金会工程教育联盟的愿景是成为公认的领导者，创造一种新的工程教育文化，以响应技术变革和社会需求。为了在他们迄今为止的工作基础上，联盟将进一步发展其工程教育创新，并努力在其成员和附属机构的校园内将这些创新制度化。他们还将参与一个多联盟的努力，向整个工程教育界传播这个和其他工程教育联盟的产品和实践。该联盟和其他工程教育联盟的工作详情可在万维网上查阅：http://www.needs.org/coalitions/。关于基金会联盟的信息也可以在http://foundation.ua.edu/上找到。

9802942FrairThis Coalition of 7 universities: University of Alabama; Arizona State University; rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Texas A&M University; College Station; Texas A&M University, Kingsville; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; and University of Wisconsin-Madison, together with 7 affiliated institutions: Maricopa Community College District; Texas Woman's University; University of Pittsburgh; University of Texas at El Paso; South Dakota Schools of Mines and Technology; Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico); and Universidade Federal de Sant Catarina (Brazil) have been awarded a 5 year renewal of their award to complete their activities to change the practice and culture of undergraduate engineering education. While the affiliates participate in the work of the Coalition, they are not supported in this by any Federal funds.The Foundation Engineering Education Coalition's vision is to be a recognized leader in creating a new engineering education culture that is responsive to technological changes and societal needs.To build on their work to date, the Coalition will develop further its engineering education innovations and work to have these institutionalized on the campuses of their members and affiliates. They will also participate in a multi-coalition effort to disseminate the product and practices of this and the other engineering education coalitions, to the engineering education community at large.Details of the work of this and other Engineering Education Coalitions are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.needs.org/coalitions/. Information on the Foundation Coalition can also be found at http://foundation.ua.edu/.