Abstract – Thirteen engineering educators and researchers were each asked to choose a particular aspect of enginee ring’s future to address. Each of the authors has contributed a short piece that has been edited into a discussi on of the future as we collectively see it. Topics include the stimulating change, the changing university, teaching, learning, research, outcome assessment and technology as well as a look back at predictions for 2000.

In the above paper,’ a be was lost in the retyping of the manuscript that completely changed the meaning of the sentence in the middle of the first paragraph under Section 111-B, page 904. The sentences should read as follows: “In conventional courses, grading is usually done ‘on the cwe,’ Le., the students are given a grade which reflects their performance as compared with all other students in their class. Mastery methods use ‘criterion grading,’ i.e., students are graded with respect to whether or not they have attained a previously determined criterion.”

Curriculum and course-design theory suggests that there may exist a scientific method for the development of effective courses. Some of the important steps in their design include writing of instructional objectives, selection of instruction method, and others. The paper will deal primarily with one step in this sequence: selection of an instruction method. First seven currently deemed important c...