Impact, institutionalization and innovation diffusion: an evaluation of the SUCCEED coalition

The mission of SUCCEED, one of the National Science Foundation´s Engineering Education Coalitions, is to implement its curriculum model on each of its eight member campuses and to facilitate its dissemination beyond the coalition. This paper discusses the findings from qualitative case studies of each member institution and diffusion of innovation case studies of several successful projects. It reports the progress that the coalition is making toward achieving ifs institutionalization and dissemination goals and anticipates what the coalition can be expected to have accomplished by the end of the 10-year funding cycle in 2002.