Thursday, September 15, 2005

7:30-8:30: Registration

8:30-12:00: Welcome, Keynote speakers, Opening Discussion

Keynote speaker: Cary Sneider, Vice President, Educator Programs, Boston Museum of Science

Pre-engineering & Applied Sciences education

• Vision
• Mission
• Overarching goals

Themes Discussion

• Motivation
• Preparation
• Transfer
• Retention
• Diversity

12:00-1:00: Hosted lunch

1:00-4:30: Work groups: strategic planning process focusing on strategic topics such as

• Alignment and Coordination: Curricula and Co-curricula
• Alignment and coordination: System wide
• Best Practices: Adapting and leveraging ideas from other states
• Degree pathways: Defining, implementing, and communication
• Diversity: Increasing the ethnic and gender diversity in technical fields
• Instructional Professional Development
• Marketing Engineering & Applied Sciences Careers
• Standards/courses/curricula
• Student Success: Access, motivation, retention

4:30-6:00: Hosted Reception

Friday, September 16, 2005

8:00-12:00: Conference reconvenes:

• Keynote speaker: Steve Pawlowski, Senior Fellow and CTO, Enterprise Platforms Group, Intel Corporation
• Workgroup reports
• Feedback
• Further development

12:00-1:00: Hosted lunch

1:00-2:30: Continue the work:

• Resources
• Metrics
• Assuring statewide impact
• Role of co-curricular programs

2:30-3:30: Final Recommendations and Next Steps

3:30: Conference adjourns