Adjunct faculty as agents for re-engineering engineering education

Author

Laxpati, Sharad R. ; Saad, S. Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1223

Abstract

The role of adjunct faculty in re-engineering engineering education is examined. The traditional functions of adjunct faculty are reformulated and augmented. The mutual benefits of the strategic relation between the adjunct faculty and the engineering school are outlined. Some suggestions are offered to enhance the relation to include areas such as university and society linkage, academic strategy development, role modeling, internship and technology transfer. The mission of adjunct faculty is thus redefined and expanded

Keywords

engineering education; personnel; systems re-engineering; technology transfer; academic strategy development; adjunct faculty; engineering education reengineering; engineering school; faculty mission; internship; role modeling; technology transfer; university-society linkage; Accreditation; Business process re-engineering; Couplings; Demography; Educational institutions; Employment; Engineering education; Fluctuations; Performance gain; Technology transfer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3348-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1996.567840

Filename

567840