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Session 3575

New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium

A/Prof. Rick Homkes, A/Prof. Carlos R. Morales, Mr. Kenneth E. Rowe, A/Prof. Mark L. Smith

Purdue University

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Three new faculty members team up to relate their experiences moving from industry to academia. Major topics include teaching, laboratory development, service, publishing, and the balancing of time among these areas. The teaching area includes incorporating industrial experiences into classroom preparation and making the transition from industrial presentations to academic teaching. Bloom’s taxonomy is used to prepare for teaching and also to assess learning. Laboratory development includes making that first contact with prospective industrial partners and writing a grant proposal. The service area includes not just the committee work upon which academia thrives, but also outreach activities to the community. This outreach includes both working as a consultant and reaching out to possible new students. Publishing includes the research and preparation of a first paper for conference presentation along with the relative worth of different venues for a published paper. Finally, the fourth member of the team, one who made the move from industry eight years ago, describes how to put these activities into a winning promotion and tenure document. Insights are given into the promotion and tenure process and the various committees that are involved in this process. This document and process are important because it is necessary to not only to become active in all the areas listed above, but also to document these activities in order to achieve tenure and stay in academia.

The New Teacher

In industry, I have served many roles, from team member to technical lead. I have worked in groups of five to 250, and have over fifteen years of experience in the Information Systems industry. This has given me a good foundation from which to teach, but I quickly found I was missing one key element: presenting to an audience of students.

In the first semester of teaching, I was given two classes to teach. The first was an introductory course in Information Systems (IS) with 200 students and the other was an introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) with fifty students. In teaching the class on IS for just one week, I found I had some problems in conveying information to the students. Most of the problems dealt with the large class size and the room in which I was presenting the material. Some of the students were unable to hear me. To resolve this, I tried using a microphone, but finally found that speaking much louder and moving around worked the best. This allowed me

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Smith, M. L., & Rowe, K. E., & Morales, C. R., & Homkes, R. L. (2000, June), New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8588