Observations on 10 years of foundation coalition curricula change efforts

Faculty at universities participating in the foundation coalition (FC) developed innovative freshman and sophomore engineering curricula in the mid 1990s. Since that time, faculty and administrators at those schools have worked to see the new curricula adopted as the standard curricula. Some of the implementation efforts have been successful and some have not-all have yielded valuable lessons concerning engineering curricula change. The authors have interviewed over 150 faculty in an effort to study the curricular change processes that occurred on each of the FC campuses.