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d. Should wider adoption be made of block scheduling and other
efforts to overcome the tyranny of the current academic units such
as the course and the semester?

3. Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Processes

a. How do we ensure the continuing currency of our curricula?

b. Can accreditation better recognize proficiency in teaching and
learning practices or are alternative processes necessary?

c. How can assessments that better reflect the situations and knowl-
edge that we will expect of graduates?

d. Out of class learning experiences can be valuable in broadening
the education for an engineering graduate; how can we formalize
activities like service, internships, leadership workshops, study
abroad, team competitions, and so on?

4. Faculty, Departments, and Institutions

a. How do we better prepare current and future faculty for their
roles as guides and mentors?

b. How can be better balance the teaching of practical and theoreti-
cal engineering knowledge and skills?

c. Can engineering departments accommodate a service course
function as a means to address the needs of non-majors?

d. How do we overcome the barriers to departmental and institu-
tional evolution and change?

e. Do we need to change and can we change the faculty reward and
tenure systems?

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