Research and Scholarship

In the Department of Technology, scholarship and research activities are broadly defined as described in Ernest Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered:  Priorities of the Professoriate (Princeton: Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990). The following list represents recent research and scholarship activities of the faculty of the department.

Most research activities consist of applied research in areas such as of material failure analysis, product evaluation, ergonomic analysis, program evaluation, research computing, scientific visualization, and data networks infrastructure development. Other areas of scholarship consist of technical and business consulting, book and journal publications, presentations to professional organizations, and curriculum development in the areas listed below.

Areas of Publication:

• Problem Solving Methods
• Product Analysis and Development
• Learning and Teaching Strategies & Techniques
• Learning and Teaching Excellence
• Website Development
• Teaching Website Development
• Quality Engineering
• Quality Technology
• Six Sigma
• Quality Costs
• Website Maintenance
• Computer Aided Design

Recent Presentation Topics:

• Ergonomics – Lumbar Motion Monitoring
• Telecommunication
• Power Transmission
• Process Control
• Website Development
• Design and Analysis of Experiments
• Statistical Quality Control

Areas of Consulting:

• Global Issues, Problems and Solutions
• Material Science
• Ergonomics
• Failure Analysis
• Product Development
• Materials Processing
• Website Development
• Design of Experiments
• Statistical Quality Control
• Six Sigma
• Network Design
• Computer Systems for Learning
• Computing Interface Design
• Industrial Training

Curriculum Development:

• National and State K-12 Technology Standards
• SEMG Technology
• LMM Technology  
• Ergonomics and Time Study
• Telecommunication
• Power Transmission
• Process Control
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Networking
• Computer/Network Security and Ethics
• Construction Management
• Website Development
• Web Programming
  

Undergraduate Degrees & Minors:

Industrial Technology

Industrial Management
Precision Manufacturing
Electro-mechanical Systems
Information & Communications Technology
Construction Management (Degree)
Construction Management (Certificate)

Applied Technical Leadership

Minors in Industrial Technology

References

Fall 08 Course Schedule

Early Student Success WebSite

DOT Writing Manual

Research & Scholarship

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