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Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning. Objectives. Understand why lifelong learning is important. Importance. Keeping your job Enhancing your career options Licensing Upward job mobility Personal satisfaction Others?. Homework. Have you thought about graduate school?

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Lifelong Learning

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  1. Lifelong Learning

  2. Objectives • Understand why lifelong learning is important

  3. Importance • Keeping your job • Enhancing your career options • Licensing • Upward job mobility • Personal satisfaction • Others?

  4. Homework • Have you thought about graduate school? • If not, why not? If yes, what programs have you researched? • Research 3 graduate program that you think you might be interested in. • Do you meet the requirements? • What could you do now to improve your odds for gaining admittance to the programs you are interested in?

  5. Acceptable Academic Citation Styles APA-American Psychiatric Association Style MLA-Modern Language Association

  6. Lifelong Learning Topics • Graduate school program options for engineering technology graduates (Bikowiez/Meszko) • Graduate school-thesis or project? (Civic/Richards) • Graduate school-tips for applications (Dikar/Peters) • Graduate school-online programs versus conventional programs (Domazet/Thieme) • Continuing education requirements (PE) (Durgan/Cowper) • Companies that provide continuous education (Hiser/Rehkugler) • Salary data: (high school, associate, bachelor’s, master’s. PhD) (Jean-Pierre/Delgado) • Importance of lifelong learning (Sedlacek/Froehlich) • Assessing “lifelong learning” (Duffy/Wormuth) • Learning via the scientific method (Suer)

  7. The Impossible Challenge • Build a model of the Antikythera mechanism and explain how it works • Starting References: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism • http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/project/overview • http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/system/files/0608_Nature.pdf • http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/system/files/0608_Nature-Supplementary.pdf

  8. Antikythera Groups

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