Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.567840
