Distance education from the faculty perspective

The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of two faculty members while teaching an electrical engineering course to students at remote sites. The subject matter for this course was obtained by extracting sections of two graduate level courses offered at Kansas State University, USA. Broadly stated, the course content would be described as covering the topics of fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. This paper discusses the distance learning environment, major problems encountered with delivery of this course and discusses possible solutions to resolve the difficulties. In addition, the authors attempt to provide conclusions about teaching efficiencies and the usefulness/importance of distance teaching.