PI: Joe Tront, Professor, Electrical Engineering

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "The goals for that project were to get more faculty involved by providing workshops for them, by sending them to workshops if possible, and by helping make them so-called master teachers so they could come back on campus... and help train other faculty."

Project Grants and Expenditures: $8000 (year 8), $8000 (year 9), computer lab equipment, student wages, faculty travel



 


Workshops were held at Virginia Tech and faculty were sent to workshops outside the university at conferences such as ASEE. Workshops were attended by approximately 25 to 30 individuals from 10 to 12 departments. Technology workshop topics were diverse from java programming to "how to develop Powerpoint slides to how to use synchronized streaming media." Computer lab facilities in the New Engineering Building and faculty development labs in Torgersen Hall were utilized for the training.

It was recommended that future training be leveraged with graduate assistant support or with close ties to engineering's Multimedia Lab, because the workshops "get the faculty members salivating and then once they do that, they need some help actually getting to the food... they need someone to do the production." Faculty members should be responsible for outlining content and providing materials, while graduate assistants can be utilized to "turn the crank."