Assessing Quality Issues in Interactive Video Teleconferencing-Based Graduate Level Engineering Courses

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ABSTRACT

The continuing education of engineering professionals has been an important objective of the University of Pittsburgh's Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program (MSEP) since its inception in 1987. Making relevant

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The Defense Conversion Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program (DC MSEP) distance education project at the University of Pittsburgh began delivering courses between the University's Pittsburgh campus and one of its four regional campuses in western Pennsylvania using off-the-shelf interactive video teleconferencing (VTC) technology in the fall 1994 term. An objective of the DC MSEP project has been to investigate the …