In any organization, the people are the most important resource. Current literature indicates that faculty members in organizations with mentoring programs are more likely to be successful in their academic careers. Mentoring provides direction for both experienced and inexperienced faculty members as they progress as educators and scholars. A successful faculty mentoring program benefits the protégé, the mentor, the organization, and the students. The roles of the organization, the mentor, and the protégé are discussed along with desirable characteristics of mentoring programs.

This paper investigates successful methods of teaming with colleagues in publishing efforts. The selection of co-authors, starting the writing process, and the delegation of the responsibilities are discussed. The paper recommends that co-authors decide upon all details of the process prior to engaging in partnership. By discussing and deliberating these issues before initiation of the project, co-authors can avoid many problems.

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National focus is turning toward keeping the American work force competitive in a global market. The transition of high school students into a university educational environment looms as a major issue in staying competitive. Tech Prep initiatives typically modify high school curriculum to meet certain state standards and facilitate articulation agreements with post secondary institutions. The ideal program should provide a seamless transition for students from high school to the university to industry. This paper describes interactive, hands-on activities involved in a model Tech Prep collaboration currently under way at the Purdue University Programs Site in Anderson. The program began in the Fall of 1994 with twenty-two freshman students visiting the campus hi-monthly to participate in technology related activities. This fall it will continue with these twenty-two students as sophomores and thirty-seven entering freshmen. The methodology of Purdue's participation is presented and evaluated. Specific student technology projects that were completed are described and discussed. Plans for future activities and expansion of the program are also provided.

Hands on exercises in introductory EET courses provide students with interesting instructional tools to pique their inquisitiveness and increase their knowledge. The application specific exercise being described was developed to provide students an experience connecting basic analog and digital circuits to produce a system for a specific application. While negotiating the path to the desired goal, students experience working with units of measure such as time, distance, velocity and associated math concepts. The exercise provides an opportunity for them to use light emitting diodes as a sender-receiver system in conjunction with basic circuits to measure the speed of an object passing between the sender-receivers. Additional information is obtained from the sensor system also allows the calculation of the object's width. This paper describes the physical structure of the exercise, the circuits developed, a description of their layout and implementation and the methodology involved in their design. Laboratory problem solving application and calculations based on this exercise are described, and laboratory scenarios are presented.