Combining Computers and People to Reform Academic Advising in Engineering Education

9354676 WANCAT工程教育系统中薄弱的学术咨询计划导致成功学生的相当大的不满，并导致其他学生决定离开工程学。这项研究将开发一个积极主动的工程学术咨询系统，为所有学生，特别是那些最需要的学生提供更高质量的学术咨询。学术信息计算机计划将使用超媒体在工程学院和偏远地点(如社区大学)提供职业和具体的学术建议信息。导师联系计算机程序将跟踪学生与导师和教授的所有重要联系，并将指导有效利用稀缺的咨询资源，以便最需要帮助的学生能够获得帮助。新的咨询系统将使用人来提供个人联系，而现在许多学生在工程教育中错过了这一点。还将对项目的不同部分进行形成性和总结性评价。整个系统的可转移性将在普渡北区和克莱姆森大学进行测试。将举办研讨会和发表论文，以鼓励其他大学采用这一咨询系统的各个方面。这个项目的成果是：1.开发一个积极主动的咨询程序和一个计算机程序，以跟踪学生的联系；2.开发一个专门针对工程的、学术咨询的计算机程序。***

9354676 Wankat Weak academic advising programs in the engineering education system contribute to considerable dissatisfaction among successful students and to the decision of other students to leave engineering. This research will develop a proactive engineering academic advising system which will provide better quality academic advising to all students, particularly those who need it the most. The academic information computer program will use hypermedia to provide both career and specific academic advising information at both engineering colleges and remote sites such as community colleges. The advisor contact computer program will keep track of all of the student's significant contacts with advisors and professors, and will guide the efficient use of scarce advising resources so that the students who most need help will receive it. The new advising system will use people to provide the personal contact which many students now miss in engineering education. Formative and summative evaluations will also be done of the different parts of the project. Transferability of the entire system will be tested at Purdue North Central and at Clemson University. Workshops and papers will be presented to encourage adoption of aspects of this advising system at other universities. The deliverables from this project are: 1. development of a proactive advising procedure and a computer program to keep track of student contacts, and 2. development of an engineering-specific, academic advising computer program. ***