Electronic Technology Education

The two key goals of this blog are: 1. To improve electronic technology education and make it more relevant to industry employers through curriculum reform. 2. To discuss the problems of low enrollments and retention in two-year community colleges and technical schools and to seek out practical solutions producing graduates that industry wants and needs.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Continuing Education for ET Professors

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Every electronic engineer and technician must participate in some form of continuing education if he or she intends to stay competent, retai...
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Instructors Teach What They Want, Not What is Needed

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It being summer and all, I don't suspect many of you are reading this blog. It is a relief to take the summer off and get away from the ...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

Interesting NEW Stuff. Don't Miss This!!

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With all of you probably on summer break, I doubt that many of you will be reading this. But I can hope. I have a mix of new info and things...
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Saturday, May 06, 2006

Relevant New Article and Blog Focus

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My original focus in this blog was to address the low enrollment problem in 2-year AAS degree programs in electronic technology. This is sti...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

An interesting perspective

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This past weekend I had dinner with a good friend of mine. We taught together at Austin CC but like me he left to go back to industry. This...

So, what else is new?

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Those of you who are members of the ETD Listserv may have seen the recent posting. I am attaching it below for your information. "We a...
Sunday, April 02, 2006

Some Bad News

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I think I mentioned in this blog before that I was involved with submitting a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation for funds to...

Follow Up, More Depression

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There were some great comments to my Depressed posting of March 23rd. If you have not read them, by all means do so. Excellent input. My ...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Depressed

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I like to maintain a positive attitude about our low enrollment situation and other problems plaguing community college electronics programs...

Creat Comments

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If you have not looked at my blog called Conference Report of 2/19 please do so. Then take a look at the two posted comments. Both contain...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Conference Report

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I attended the Service & Retail Convention (SRC06) last week in Las Vegas. The name does not imply any connection to electronics but it...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Proprietary Schools: Good News - Bad News

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I have mentioned the proprietary schools in this blog several times before. They are without doubt one of the biggest reasons why your depa...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

More Certificate Programs, Fewer Engineering Techs

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If you take a look at the types of technician jobs available today, you will come to the realization, as I have, that many of them simply d...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

ABET Accreditation in Community Colleges

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I received an interesting email that I wanted to share with you. It is about ABET accreditation in community colleges. Something I have h...
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Saturday, January 07, 2006

Things They Don't Teach You in School, Part 3: Video

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VIDEO It is one of the biggest electronic product sectors in the world and it is getting bigger every day. It is also one of the most compl...

Happy New Year

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Just a short note to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2006. Thanks for reading the blog. And I welcome all of you to comment and contr...
Friday, December 23, 2005

Response to A Great Question & Merry Xmas

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For those of you who did not see the comment to my Roy Is Right entry, here it is below. It is such a great question that it deserves a goo...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Roy is Right

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Roy Brixen of San Mateo College in California recently posted some very interesting comments to my recent blogs. Check out his comments to ...
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Monday, December 05, 2005

Gloom And Doom

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While this block tries to take a positive approach to the declining enrollment problem, you should at least think about the possibility that...
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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Things They Don't Teach You In School

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As a writer/editor for one of the largest electronics magazines in the world, I get to see what is going on in the industry first hand. I g...
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