Premier Award

2010 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware
The Premier Award competition is open to a wide range of submissions of high-quality, engaging, non-commercial learning innovations designed to enhance engineering education. Submissions for 2010 are due by July 16, 2010, and the Premier Courseware will be announced at the Frontiers In Education Conference to be held October 27-30 in Washington, D.C.

If you have developed K-12 engineering curriculum, consider submitting it to the Award for K-12 Engineering Curriculum.

Complete information about the Premier Award can be found on the following Engineering Pathway pages:

Premier Courseware of 2009: CATME/Team-Maker and SimSE

Engineering Pathway is proud to announce that two entries, CATME/Team-Maker and SimSE, have been named the Premier Courseware of 2009!

The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME)/Team-Maker, by Matthew W. Ohland, Richard A. Layton, Misty L. Loughy, Lisa M. Bullard, Richard M. Felder, Cynthia J. Finelli and Douglas G. Schmucker, was developed to use peer evaluations and self evaluations to assess how effectively each team member contributes to a team. CATME/Team-Maker provides a simple way to assess team members' performance in five areas that research has found to be very important for effective team functioning.

SimSE, by André van der Hoek and Emily Navarro, is an educational software engineering simulation environment whose goal is to bridge the gap between the large amount of conceptual software engineering knowledge given to students in lectures and the comparably small amount of this they actually get to put into practice in an associated "toy" software engineering project. SimSE allows students to practice a "virtual" software engineering process (or sub-process) in a fully graphical, interactive, and fun setting in which direct, graphical feedback enables them to learn the complex cause and effect relationships underlying the processes of software engineering.

When you have experienced the Premier Courseware of 2009, we invite you to submit your comments. Your comments on CATME/Team-Maker and SimSE are welcome, and we thank you for recognizing the Premier Courseware of 2009 and its contribution to engineering education.

Request a copy of the 2009 Premier Award CD

Past Premier Awards
You can view all past Premier Courseware resources or request a complimentary copy of a past Premier Courseware on CD here at Engineering Pathway.




If you'd like more information about the Premier Award or how to become a sponsor, please contact Professor Joe Tront at Virginia Tech via email at jgtront@vt.edu.