WIP: Fostering Professional Skills Development through Application in Core Engineering Subject Courses: A Pathway to Holistic Student Development

After 23 years in Telecom building LD, internet, and email platforms and networks, I observed that the front line personnel that I was hiring didn't have what I considered to be skills that they should be bringing to the table.I began investigating why, and that led me to high school.Alas, I began my journey in Education in 2010 inhabiting the classrooms of Lovejoy High School, where my two daughters attended.I redubbed my PreCalculus course as Problem-Solving with Brooks and was also afforded the opportunity to lead an impactful Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Principles of Engineering (PoE) course, a project-based learning survey of the engineering discipline.Since the Summer of 2015 I have been privileged to work with the Texas A and M Sketch Recognition Lab (TAMU SRL) to evaluate a couple of online tutorial tools (Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)) currently under development, Mechanix and Sketchtivity, that provide immediate constructive feedback to the students and student-level metrics to the instructors.I presented on this work at the state and national PLTW Conventions and at CPTTE in 2016.I also spent 5 semesters beginning the Fall of 2015 taking online courses learning how to construct and deliver online courses.This resulted in a MSEd from Purdue University in Learning Design and Technology (LDT).This widely varied background prepared me well for my next big adventure.