PI: Pamela Kurstedt, Assistant Dean - Enrichment

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "We were to develop a multimedia tool to enhance the advising for perspective freshmen and for enrolled freshmen in the COE at Virginia Tech. … We thought giving them a CD with this information about each and every faculty member in each and every degree program would be more convenient for them and more interesting for them than just giving them a catalog."

Project Grants and Expenditures: $7000 (year 6), faculty wages, cost-shared equipment



 


A CD was produced and distributed to incoming freshmen and prospective visiting students at the end of year 6. The CD listed: "all of the degree programs…, required courses, …the flow diagram of how students would proceed through the curricula, and … a page on each faculty member, and a picture of them, what they taught, where they got their degrees, where their office was, what their telephone number was, how to get in contact with them, what their areas of interest were, and then we had video clips from every department head on that CD." The CD was scrapped and all information was moved to the emerging Web after two years of usage.