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Long-term impact of the Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program

Scott Eberhardt, Vipin Kumar Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics/ Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington

Abstract The Boeing - A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellowship program brings university faculty to Boeing to expose faculty to the changing environment that today’ engineers s have to work in, in the era of global competition. Boeing hoped that this exposure will motivate engineering faculty to introduce innovative changes to the engineering curriculum and teaching methodologies so as to better prepare tomorrow's engineers. The co-authors participated in the program in 1997 (Kumar) and 1998 (Eberhardt). Upon leaving the program each participant had to present what was learned and what new goals will be set after leaving the program. There is no long-term follow-up of these goals. In this paper the co-authors will provide their long-term achievements resulting from the Welliver program.

Introduction The Boeing Company initiated a program in 1995 called the Boeing - A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellowship program (WFSF), in honor of the former chief engineer, Bert Welliver. This program is a product of a series of joint workshops organized by industry and academia to identify effective measures that promote improvements in engineering education. The goal of the WFSF Program is to keep mid-career engineering faculty abreast of the rapidly changing industrial environment for the purpose of improving engineering education. As such, it is the only program of its kind in the nation. Boeing expects participants to disseminate what they learned to the academic community (through papers such as this) and to increase the awareness of institutions of higher learning about modern trends in engineering practice in corporations striving to remain globally competitive. The WFSF participants typically spent the first week together in Seattle, where they were introduced to a broad array of issues related to the key elements of global competitiveness and the practices of engineering at Boeing. The following six weeks consisted of individually-tailored "shadowing assignments," centering around each fellow’ respective area of technical interest. During this time, the fellows were s individually exposed to different management and technical programs and lived among Boeing engineers and staff engaged in the day-to-day dynamics of engineering practice. These activities included participation in Integrated Product Teams, customer and partner visits, planned tours of Boeing facilities, demonstrations of rapid prototyping, advanced Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Kumar, V., & Eberhardt, S. (2002, June), Long Term Impact Of The Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10430