From the Editor

ABSTRACT

With this our third issue, AEE has arrived! We are delighted to be able to publish six papers that illustrate the diversity of the advances occurring in engineering education. These papers span a number of topics of relevance to engineering education—active learning, mechanics of materials, convergent-divergent design, cooling of electronic components, green engineering, using concept maps for assessment, blending teaching and computer programming skills, and retention of freshmen engineering students. Further, not only are we beginning to have a backlog of quality papers to present to the engineering education community, but we should now be able to maintain a regular schedule and hopefully will soon be meeting our goal of four issues a year…

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