Internal assessments showed that these activities benefit retention. We partnered with community colleges for dissemination and collaboration. Team-based design activities form the basis of secondary school alliances. Expansion and institutionalization of engineering science core course changes are reaching a large scale. As we approach year 2000, the emphasis is on assuring institutionalization and dissemination of the many lessons learned.
Faculty development continues to present a significant opportunity.
Development themes were combined such that engineering students would be involved in the planning, development and implementation of pre-college programs as well as be actively involved with the School of Engineering administration. ESOC has one to two meetings per semester with Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch, Dean of the School of Engineering to discuss the student climate. The Middle Passage program adopted Chinquapin Middle School to concentrate the Learning by Design theme with the students at that school. A current activity with Southwestern High School includes an SAT preparation tutorial. The official chapter of the Morgan State University post of SAME was presented in December 1998.