Msg. #0041 Consulting - Needed Prior to Tenure, Not Just After Tenure
|
|
| Audience/Grade: | Graduate-Professional Development |
| Discipline(s): |
Engineering Education Research General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Special Topic(s): |
Teaching and Learning Research Center Academic Careers and Issues |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - Article/Document |
| Author(s): |
Richard Reis |
| Description: | This resource is the thoughts of Frank Owens, soon to earn a tenure at CalPoly, on the importance of consulting jobs for professors because these jobs can keep professors applying the engineering knowledge. He points out it's critical that the professors are updated on the practical side of engineering because most of the students they teach will become engineers, not research scientists. |
| Rating: |
|
| Related Resources | |
| Is Component of: |
Msg. #0042 Further Comments on Faculty Consulting |
| Usage Tip | |
| Use of Resource: |
Good reminder of what faculty should emphasize in their teaching. Closing paragraph: "It was disturbing to see the advice against consulting before tenure. Taking five years off from practical work in today's fast-moving technology only guarantees that the advisee's ability to understand and connect with industry will atrophy. How to inculcate new faculty who have no practical work experience in engineering with the lessons learned from the practice of engineering is a problem that engineering academia does not attach much importance to. Of course that system has created and perpetuated this problem by valuing research so highly while ignoring teaching and the practice of the art." |
| Difficulty: |
Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Very low |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | July 1998 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/41.html |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
Tomorrow's Professor
|
