Brad Gillespie, a friend and UNH alumnus, pointed me to this article by Don Dodge. Don is greatly concerned about the high dropout rate at US engineering schools and he offers some ideas on how to fix this problem. For schools like UNH some of his ideas sound good only in theory (e.g. provide full scholarship to all students - that may be expensive, and Don acknowledges this), but others are indeed well worth looking at (basically, engage students from day one, show them that an engineering career is fun).

What do you think about all this? How does engineering education at the undergraduate or graduate level strike you? Just right? Boring? Engaging? Any ideas on how to make it better?

Andrew Kun

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