Faculty Reward System Reform: Beginning Phase Ii Revisiting The Need For University Change To Advance Professional Graduate Education For Engineering Practice And Technology Leadership
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Chicago, Illinois
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June 18, 2006
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June 18, 2006
- End Date
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June 21, 2006
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2153-5965
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6
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11.635.1 - 11.635.6
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--222
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https://peer.asee.org/222
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365
Paper Authors
Dennis Depew Purdue University
Dennis R. Depew is dean of the college of technology, Purdue University
Niaz Latif Purdue University
Niaz Latif is professor and department head, department of industrial technology, college of technology at Purdue University
Gary Bertoline Purdue University
Gary Bertoline is professor and associate vice president of information technology, Purdue University
Donald Keating University of South Carolina
Donald A. Keating is assocaite professor of mechanical engineering, University of South Carolina, and chair Graduate Studies Division, e-officio member of the Corporate Members Council, and a director of the College Industry Partnership Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Thomas Stanford University of South Carolina
Thomas G. Stanford is assistant professor of chemical engineering, Univesity of South Carolina
Stephen Tricamo New Jersey Institute of Technology
Stephen J. Tricamo is professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, and former dean of engineering and technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Duane Dunlap Western Carolina University
Duane D. Dunlap is professor, director, Kimmel School of Construction Management, Engineering and Technology, and associate dean for the college of applied sciences at Western Carolina University, and program chair of the Graduate Studies Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Albert McHenry Arizona State University
Albert L. McHenry is dean of the college of technology and applied sciences at Arizona State University Polytechnic, and vice president of public affairs of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Harvey Palmer Rochester Institute of Technology
Harvey Palmer is dean of the Kate Gleason college of engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Eugene DeLoatch Morgan State University
Eugene DeLoatch is dean, school of engineering, Morgan State University, and a past president of the American Society of Engineering Education
Ronald Bennett University of St. Thomas
Ronald Bennett is dean of the school of engineering, University of St. Thomas, and immediate past chair and director of the Graduate Studies Division of the American Society for Engineering Education
Mohammad Noori California State Polytechnic University
Mohamad Noori is dean of hte college of engineering, California State Polytechnic University
Jay Snellenberger Rolls-Royce
Jay Snellenberger is senior manager, aftermarket support, control systems, Rolls-Royce Corporation, and past vice chair, Corporate Members Council and past chair College Industry Partnership Division of the American Society for Engineering Education
Samuel Truesdale Rolls-Royce
Samuel L. Truesdale is manager of employee development, engineering business improvement organization, Rolls-Royce Corporation
Abstract
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Faculty Reward System Reform: Beginning Phase II – Revisiting the Need for University Change to Advance Professional Graduate Education for Engineering Practice and Technology Leadership
1. Introduction
This is the first of two papers prepared for a special invited panel session of the National Collaborative Task Force on Engineering Graduate Education Reform that is focusing one of its primary tasks on faculty reward system reform. Founded in 2000, the National Collaborative Task Force is an initiative of the ASEE-Graduate Studies Division, Corporate Members Council, and College Industry Partnership Division. The National Collaborative is comprised of leaders from industry, academia, and government all coming together to advance professional engineering graduate education for the advancement of engineering practice in the national interest to enhance U.S. competitiveness.
This paper provides an overview of the panel’s continued focus.1,2,3 It revisits the broad urgency for reform of faculty reward systems for professionally oriented, core faculty at the nation’s colleges of engineering and technology in order to advance professional engineering education for the practice of engineering and technology leadership in the national interest.
2. The Urgency of Professional Engineering Education Reform
As William Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in his main plenary address to the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference in 2002, there is urgency for engineering education reform to promote the nation’s technological welfare.4
As Wulf noted; this should be a watershed change to include curricula reform, process reform, and faculty reward reform. Whereas existing faculty reward systems are excellent for research- oriented faculty, they are insufficient for professionally oriented, core faculty at the nation’s schools of engineering and technology. As Wulf pointes out:
“In engineering education I think we have an additional problem, and that’s the one I want to emphasize. Recall, my definition of engineering is “design under constraint”. I believe that it’s a synthetic, highly creative activity.
Can you think of any other creative field on campus where the faculty are not expected to practice/perform? Art, music, drama? Even if you won’t buy that engineering is creative in the same way as art or music – performance oriented professions such as medicine and law expect their faculty to practice that profession. Can you imagine a medical school where the faculty was prohibited from practicing medicine?
Yet, not so in engineering.
Depew, D., & Latif, N., & Bertoline, G., & Keating, D., & Stanford, T., & Tricamo, S., & Dunlap, D., & McHenry, A., & Palmer, H., & DeLoatch, E., & Bennett, R., & Noori, M., & Snellenberger, J., & Truesdale, S. (2006, June), Faculty Reward System Reform: Beginning Phase Ii Revisiting The Need For University Change To Advance Professional Graduate Education For Engineering Practice And Technology Leadership Paper presented at 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. 10.18260/1-2--222
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