Taking Stock: An Analysis of the Publishing Record as Represented by the Journal of Engineering Education

Journal of Engineering Education, Jan 2004 by Whitin, Katherine, Sheppard, Sheri

Based on the analysis done in this paper, the authors close with the following recommendations:

For editorial staff of the Journal of Engineering Education, we recommend that you continue to offer the Journal as a major, high-quality national venue for showcasing the thoughtful research underway in engineering education.

For future Journal authors, we recommend that you consider the list of characteristics of scholarly papers offered here as you go about formulating your research. In addition, as you write, consider who your audience is and how you might frame your findings so as to reach as broad an audience as possible.

For engineering educators, we recommend that you continue to be innovative and imaginative in your work of designing the educational systems for future engineers, building on the work of others by, for example, reading engineering education literature.

* The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 51 Vista Lane, Stanford, CA 94305.

1 According to the current Editor, the journal now receives nearly 250 new submissions per year.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to acknowledge our colleagues at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Anne Colby Ph.D., William Sullivan Ph.D., Cheryl Richardson Ph.D., Kelly Macatangay and Sonia Gonzalez), Dr. John W. Prados for providing additional data on the journal, and Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. for their contributions to this work.

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