Dear Colleagues,
Advances in Engineering Education continues to grow! This marks our third issue with the most papers to date. The articles in this issue address a number of areas of interest to engineering educators — active learning, mechanics of materials, convergent-divergent design, cooling of electronic components, green engineering, assessment (using concept maps), blended teaching and computer programming skills, and retention of first year engineering students from a wide range of authors. So wide, in fact, that, as was the case with our last issue, we are again including one international paper.
We couldn’t publish Advances without the diligent work of our editorial board – our eight associate editors – John Chen, Trevor Harding, Tom Litzinger, Ron Miller, Dan Moore, Bill Oakes, Sheryl Sorby and Bevlee Watford – are all at the forefront of engineering education and take their charge very seriously. They bring a vast amount of experience to AEE, and collectively, enable us to consider a wide spectrum of submissions. In addition to our associate editors, we are also indebted to the many reviewers who have taken the time to seriously critique the submissions that we have been receiving. These are the individuals who enable us to maintain a quality, peer-reviewed publication that is attracting an increasing amount of attention from the engineering education community. We are also very pleased with the quality of submissions that we have been receiving. We are very close to having received 100 submissions as well as a relatively large number of resubmissions, all of which has kept us very busy. While it would be wonderful if we could publish everything we receive, we take our name seriously – “Advances in Engineering Education” and, consequently, we continue to seek out those papers that are, in fact, true, documented advances. We would hope in the future to also begin to publish shorter articles that propose innovative, but yet fully implemented or assessed concepts.
As we have stated before, we cannot publish Advances in Engineering Education by ourselves. We still very much need your help! Not only do we continue to seek your advice as how we can improve Advances to better meet your needs, but, equally important we encourage you to become one of our authors! We are actively soliciting articles for our upcoming issues. Please join us in this new ASEE venture by submitting those papers that you believe truly describe an advance, one that helps move the field of engineering education forward. We promise to peer-review your submissions in a timely manner and assist you in recommending how multimedia might be used to enhance accepted papers. On behalf of the editors and the editorial board, we look forward to having you join us in making AEE the leading journal for engineering education applications.
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