From the Editor

This is our sixth issue of Advances in Engineering Education. We have now had over 200 submissions, and are publishing our papers 32 through 38. We have two special issues in the works—one on NSF’s Department Level Reform initiative edited by Mandar Dewoolkar and the other on e-learning edited by Maura Borrego. Watch for a call for papers to be included for a third special issue on engineering applications at the K-12 level that will be edited by Tamara Moore and Larry Richards.

This issue consists of seven papers including three with international aspects, illustrating the globalization of engineering education in more ways than one. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics of interest to the broader engineering education community. They describe true “advances” in engineering education, which, is the purpose of this journal…