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Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning. Objectives. Understand why lifelong learning is important. Importance. Keeping your job Enhancing your career options Licensing Upward job mobility Personal satisfaction Others?. Types. Graduate school Professional Development Hours

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Lifelong Learning

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  1. Lifelong Learning

  2. Objectives • Understand why lifelong learning is important

  3. Importance • Keeping your job • Enhancing your career options • Licensing • Upward job mobility • Personal satisfaction • Others?

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

  5. Graduate School • 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

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

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

  8. Homework • 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. • Provide a detailed description of each program. • Summarize the admittance requirements and provide a discussion as to whether you currently meet them. • What could you do now to improve your odds for gaining admittance to the programs you are interested in?

  9. Lifelong Learning (10-12 minutes) • 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. PhD) • Importance of lifelong learning (Not Assigned) • Assessing “lifelong learning” (Not Assigned) • Learning via the scientific method (Not Assigned)

  10. 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 • Build a “model” of a “Strandbeest” and explain how it works (presentation due April 21/22nd) • 50% of grade based on “completion” and 50% of grade based on voting (#1-50, #2-45, #3-40) • Starting References: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Jansen • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGJ9jrbpvg • http://www.ted.com/speakers/theo_jansen • http://www.mekanizmalar.com/theo_jansen.html • http://www.mechanicalspider.com/comparison.html

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

  12. The Impossible Challenge: Not Assigned Spring 2012 • Build a model of the Antikythera mechanism and explain how it works • Starting References: • 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

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