Conference Session

Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ralph Dreher PhD P.E., International Society for Engineering Education (G

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Invited - Faculty Development

to which extent an optimum has been accomplished orits reasons for a failure. Thus, the implied demand for a social, environmental andeconomical responsibility of ones own actions characterizes the modern and likewisepractice-oriented concepts of vocational education. In view of this development in the field ofvocational education and taking into consideration the fact that each individual has to be ableto fill a big spot in the larger scope in the flat personnel hierarchies of current concepts ofconceptualizing and producing, a scientific engineering university education is not able toclose its mind to these progressions.This means that: With all due respect to the importance of practice-orientation, meaning thefacilitation of preplanned

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dirk Schaefer P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology

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Invited - Faculty Development

Paper ID #8378Invited Paper - Fostering a Culture of Professional Faculty Development andRecognition of Engineering & Engineering Technology EducatorsProf. Dirk Schaefer P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology Prof. Dirk Schaefer serves on the faculty of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Schaefer was a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Durham University, UK. During his time at Durham, he earned a Postgraduate Certificate in ”Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”. He joined Durham from a Senior Research Associate