Lifelong Learning 1 Objectives o Understand why lifelong

Lifelong Learning 1

Objectives o Understand why lifelong learning is important 2

Importance o o o Keeping your job Enhancing your career options Licensing Upward job mobility Personal satisfaction Others?

Types o o o Graduate school Professional Development Hours Company required (or company offered) Continued Service On your own 4

Graduate School o o Online or traditional or in-between In your field, related to your field, other Project-based or thesis based Company pays/helps or on-your-own 5

Graduate School o o o Complete before you leave Good relationship w/ your advisor Perseverence 6

Professional Development Hours o o PE (36 hours in a 3 -year period) Review “commonly asked questions: http: //www. op. nysed. gov/prof/pels/peceques. htm o Example of companies that offer PDF credits: n n http: //www. idpnewyork. com/about. php https: //www. halfmoonseminars. org/ 7

Homework 1. 2. 3. 4. Have you thought about graduate school? If not, why not? If yes, what programs have you researched? Research the GRE and prepare a one-page summary description. Research 3 graduate program from 3 different schools that you think you might be interested in. o Provide a detailed description of each program. o Summarize the admittance requirements and provide a discussion as to whether you currently meet them. o What could you do now to improve your odds for gaining admittance to the programs you are interested in?

Lifelong Learning (10 -12 minutes) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Graduate school program options for engineering technology graduates Graduate school-thesis or project? Graduate school-online programs versus conventional programs Continuing education requirements (PE) Companies that provide continuous education (Not Assigned) Salary data: (high school, associate, bachelor’s, master’s. Ph. D) Importance of lifelong learning (Not Assigned) Assessing “lifelong learning” (Not Assigned) Learning via the scientific method (Not Assigned) 9

The Impossible Challenge: Spring 2014 “…. and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives”—Theo Janson o Build a “model” of a “Strandbeest” and explain how it works (presentation due April 21/22 nd) o 50% of grade based on “completion” and 50% of grade based on voting (#1 -50, #2 -45, #3 -40) o Starting References: n n n http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Theo_Jansen http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=MYGJ 9 jrbpvg http: //www. ted. com/speakers/theo_jansen http: //www. mekanizmalar. com/theo_jansen. html http: //www. mechanicalspider. com/comparison. html 10

The Impossible Challenge: Spring 2013 o Build a “model” of the stangenkunst (&/or jerker line) system and explain how it works (presentation due April 9 th) o Grade based on voting (#1 -100, #2 -95, #3 -90 & #4 -90) Starting References: o n n http: //www. lowtechmagazine. com/2013/01/mechanical-transmission-ofpower-stangenkunst. html http: //www. lowtechmagazine. com/2013/02/the-mechanical-transmission-ofpower-jerker-line-systems. html 11

The Impossible Challenge: Not Assigned Spring 2012 o o Build a model of the Antikythera mechanism and explain how it works Starting References: n n http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism http: //www. antikythera-mechanism. gr/project/overview http: //www. antikythera-mechanism. gr/system/files/0608_Nature. pdf http: //www. antikythera-mechanism. gr/system/files/0608_Nature. Supplementary. pdf 12