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8 The Engineeting Faculty
8 The Engineeting Faculty
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The vitality of engineering education depends on maintaining a highquality faculty consisting of an appropriate mix of persons with varying backgrounds and strengths. Some faculty should have their activities focused on the cutting edge of theory; others should concentrate their talents on the experimental verification of theory, and on the kind of 98
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Schools that emphasize undergraduate education will probably have their greatest strength concentrated in the teaching of current practice. Research universities have this function too, but will focus their strongest efforts on the development and verification of theory, coupled with the orderly transfo~ation of this theory into practice, principally through the writing of monographs and textbooks.
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It was a widespread practice, until after World War II, for engineering schools to employ faculty with master's degrees, but criticism by national study committees fell upon much of U.S. engineering education because faculty members in many schools did not possess a sufficiently advanced level of education in science and mathematics to prepare their students for modem technology.34 Recommendations were made that a major upgrading in educational level for engineering faculty was needed.
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The requirement for research is customary in institutions referred to as research universities, and the teaching loads in the; se institutions are generally adjusted to a level that makes a research commitment possi
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Summer jobs in industry represent an attractive way to maintain professional contact, although such jobs obviously have to be meaningful enough to serve the intended purpose. However, industrial summer jobs for faculty can be counterproductive for faculty in research universities, because summer is often the only time they con devote intensive effort to their research projects, the rest of the year being fragmented by teaching assignments arid administrative duties.
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Schools that emphasize undergraduate education can utilize many faculty who do not have doctor's degrees. Universities with significant graduate and research programs will also be able to utilize some nondoctoral faculty in special roles.
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