Lifelong Learning 1

2 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  Company required (or company offered)  Continued Service  On your own 4

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 5

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

Professional Development Hours  PE (36 hours in a 3-year period)  Review “commonly asked questions:  Example of companies that offer PDF credits: 7

Homework 1. Have you thought about graduate school? 2. If not, why not? If yes, what programs have you researched? 3. Research the GRE and prepare a one-page summary description. 4. 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) 1. Graduate school program options for engineering technology graduates 2. Graduate school-thesis or project? 3. Graduate school-online programs versus conventional programs 4. Continuing education requirements (PE) 5. Companies that provide continuous education (Not Assigned) 6. Salary data: (high school, associate, bachelor’s, master’s. PhD) 7. Importance of lifelong learning (Not Assigned) 8. Assessing “lifelong learning” (Not Assigned) 9. Learning via the scientific method (Not Assigned)

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:

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

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