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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This material is based upon work supported by NSF's SUCCEED Coalition, under cooperative agreement NSF EEC-9727411. All records of student performance were taken from the SUCCEED Longitudinal Database. We are also grateful to Lewis Carson, Associate Director of Institutional Research at North Carolina State University, for his efforts in the initial design and implementation of that database.

MATTHEW W. OHLAND

General Engineering

Clemson University

SHARRON A. FRILLMAN

Vocational/Technical Education

Clemson University

GUILT ZHANG

Educational Psychology

University of Florida

CATHERINE E. BRAWNER

Research Triangle Educational Consultants

THOMAS K. MILLER, III

Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications

North Carolina State University

AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Matthew W. Ohland is an Assistant Professor in Clemson University's General Engineering program. He served as the Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED engineering education coalition and as an NSF postdoctoral fellow. His research focus is engineering education, and he has spoken and conducted workshops nationally and internationally. He will serve as President of Tau Beta Pi from 2002 to 2006. Ohland received a B.S. in engio neering and a B .A. in religion in 1989 from Swarthmore College. He earned M.S. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in mechanical engineering in 1991 and in materials engineering in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering with a graduate minor in education from the University of Florida in 1996.

Address: 104 Holtzendorff Hall, Clemson, SC 29634-0902; telephone: 864-656-2542; fax: 864-656-1327; e-mail: ohland@clemson.edu.

Sharron A. Frillman earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development with high honors in 1995 from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, having received the Eckerd College Writing Excellence Award in 1994. She received a Master of Human Resource Development degree from Clemson University in 1999, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate there in Vocational/ Technical Education. Prior to acceptance in the Doctoral Program at Clemson she worked as a designer of computer-based curriculum modules for the US Marine Corps in Twentynine Palms, California.