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The faculty are active in the IEEE and involve students in the society activities as much aspossible. The Beaumont Section allows the student section chair to sit as a non-votingmember of the executive committee. The program also has an active chapter of Eta KappaNu (Delta Beta) that the faculty participate in. These interactions serve to enhance theprofessional awareness of the students and to enforce team-bonds outside of normalclassroom and school day activities. This sort of bonding carries over into the professionallives of our students after graduation and many alumni maintain contact with us regularly forthis reason. This also establishes contact with industry for our faculty and is an importantelement of our program assessment in terms of our employer survey process.Two of our six faculty members are registered professional engineers: one in Texas and onein Texas and Florida. This establishes a diversity of background in that each state hasdifferent procedures and statutes for the maintenance of registration.Collectively, the EE faculty have over 100 years of experience teaching engineering withforty-five years of government or industry practice to enhance it. The research backgroundsare sufficiently diverse to allow a good distribution of specialties without overtaxing anyindividual. The nature of our graduate program is such that we can allow for a significantoverlap into upper division electives so that the undergraduate program is enhanced whileavoiding teaching overload in the areas served by dual-listed courses (graduate courses at themaster's level that may be taken by senior undergraduates). The level of scholarship by thefaculty is exceptional given our size. The table below shows scholarly/funding productivitysince the last ABET visit.2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Refereed journal papers 3 6 8 5 5 7Conference papers 11 2 4 4 7 3Books 0 0 0 0 1 1Patents 0 0 0 0 1 †† 0Research funding $235K $15K $5K $59K $5K $5KCorporate/private donations $5M † $8.5K $1.5K $2K $2K 0B. Faculty WorkloadReference Table 6-2 (below), Faculty Workload Summary. Workload expectations of thefaculty are as described earlier, 12 load units per semester. The calculations of these units isdependent on course type (lecture, lab, seminar, etc.), number of students, credit hours earnedand level (ugrad, MS or doctoral). A faculty member teaching two courses in a semesterwhile supervising three master's candidates and one doctoral can easily equal the same loadunits as a faculty member teaching four lectures. Faculty workloads are distributed to accountfor curriculum requirements, faculty research and rank.†† Patent application filed (USPTO 12/958,197)† Naming of department by Philip M. Drayer, estate gift, $250K endowed in 2007.34
C. Faculty SizeAs discussed above, the faculty size is adequate for coverage of the program, however,research output (and expectation) is minimal. The extent and quality of faculty involvementin interactions with students is extensive due to our small enrollment. By graduation all of thefaculty know the graduating class quite well, to the extent that they can recognize them byname. Student advising and counseling profits from this as students feel comfortable inconfiding in faculty as well as being mentored on career decisions. University serviceactivities are distributed equally across college departments, which vary in size, and so thereis no undue service burden placed on LUEE faculty. Professional development is restrictedbecause of recent budget cuts, but all faculty have the opportunity to travel at least once peryear.Faculty are members of the Department Advisory Board, which has no formal structure, andinteract with advisory board members twice yearly. many of the board members are alumniand employers of alumni. Faculty also interact with local industry and arrange site visits forclasses to local engineering facilities. The majority of the engineers in the region are LUgraduates, and so a close and regular contact is maintained between faculty and professionalpractitioners. The college has established various industrial interactive venues to include thetwice yearly "Breakfast of Champions" for local industrial plant managers as well as twiceyearlyAll College of Engineering lectures that faculty have access to.D. Professional DevelopmentLamar University has a strong commitment to student and faculty engagement and teachingand learning excellence. Under the direction of the Provost’s Office, the Center for Teachingand Learning Enhancement supports faculty, administrators, graduate students, and staff intheir academic pursuits and provides a range of instructional services to assist all members ofthe LU teaching community. In order to foster and sustain a culture that practices, values, andrewards teaching and learning as vital forms of scholarship at Lamar University, the Centerfor Teaching and Learning Enhancement takes as its mission to:• Promote deep understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning by assistingboth individuals and groups of instructors to gather, analyze, and reflect oninformation about their own teaching and their students' learning.• Cultivate dialogue about teaching pedagogies and learning theories throughseminars, orientations, workshops, teaching and learning circles, and otherprogramming.• Foster the use of research-based best practices, models, and approaches to universityteaching and learning -- and facilitate access to resources that support them.Because our focus at Lamar University is both on student learning and creating anenvironment that stimulates the development of excellent teaching, our approach ismultifaceted. We realize that teaching is a means to an end and that our graduates need to be35
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