Bringing adjunct engineering faculty into the classroom: Opportunities for enhancing the practice

The paper reports on a success story of an adjunct, a practitioner with excellent credentials, who “teamed-up” with a “full-time” faculty, in an attempt to bring-in the “practice” to 4^th year students in a geotechnical/foundation engineering class. The paper sheds light on this experience, and focuses on the contribution and effectiveness of the adjunct in: course planning, delivery of “practice-related” material, organizing activities and adjunct´s ability in engaging students, in and outside the classroom. The positive outcome of this experience has lead other faculty members to follow the same path, i.e., by searching for practitioners - as adjunct faculty- to assist in bringing the practice into the classroom, in partnership with “full-time” faculty.