So you want to teach! [engineering teaching]

Traditionally, engineering graduate students have been trained to be top-of-the-line researchers through rigorous programs that impart both scientific knowledge and the methods of gaining new knowledge through future research and analysis. To prepare for a faculty position, to be a top-of-the-line educator, what training do we receive? We are experts at research and the attainment of knowledge in our particular field, yet we are amateurs at imparting that knowledge if we choose to do so. The author discusses his experiences as a researcher "transformed" into a professor which sheds some light on the process and resultant predicaments of educating the educator. The author discusses the graduate school experience and the tenure track experience, and the cyclical and self sustaining problem of the process of educating the educator.