Master of Education in Educational Technology, minor in Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University 1988 I joined the Educational Technology department just as it was forming, and got a solid grounding in the theory and practice of cognitive science and instructional design. I was part of the team that created the first interactive videodisk at Texas A&M. My graduate internship project was the development and delivery of an intensive, hands-on curriculum in aerospace science for gifted secondary-school students. Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education, minor in Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University 1984 Three years of undergraduate engineering school gave me a solid understanding of systems design principles. (It also gave me my first taste of programming - in FORTRAN on punch cards!) I spent a co-op semester analyzing flight-test data for a commercial aircraft manufacturer. When the aerospace industry took a downturn in the early 1980s I completed my bachelor's in Industrial Education, which gave me a good understanding of manufacturing technology. I also got in on the ground floor of the microcomputer revolution in education and training. (My first-ever CBT project was a tutorial in ApplePilot on the Apple II. It was a tutorial designed to show how a jet engine operates.)
I joined the Educational Technology department just as it was forming, and got a solid grounding in the theory and practice of cognitive science and instructional design. I was part of the team that created the first interactive videodisk at Texas A&M. My graduate internship project was the development and delivery of an intensive, hands-on curriculum in aerospace science for gifted secondary-school students.
Three years of undergraduate engineering school gave me a solid understanding of systems design principles. (It also gave me my first taste of programming - in FORTRAN on punch cards!) I spent a co-op semester analyzing flight-test data for a commercial aircraft manufacturer.
When the aerospace industry took a downturn in the early 1980s I completed my bachelor's in Industrial Education, which gave me a good understanding of manufacturing technology. I also got in on the ground floor of the microcomputer revolution in education and training. (My first-ever CBT project was a tutorial in ApplePilot on the Apple II. It was a tutorial designed to show how a jet engine operates.)