Effective Use Of Faculty Development Plan For Promotion And Tenure Of Engineering Technology Faculty

This paper reports the results of using faculty development plans by engineering technology administrators in mentoring and guiding newly hired engineering technology faculty through the promotion and tenure process. There is also an attempt to delineate the intensely debated topics of the roles of engineering technology faculty as compared to their closest colleagues, engineering and science faculty, when it comes to defining teaching, research and service in order to measure the performance of engineering technology faculty for purposes of promotion, tenure, annual reviews and salary recommendations. Administrators with responsibilities for engineering technology programs may occasionally be at a loss in making the case for their faculty members in a university setting where strong engineering and science units exist side by side with an engineering technology unit. A suggested guideline of how to initiate a development plan for a newly hired faculty for engineering technology administrators is described in detail. This paper also invites engineering technology faculty and administrators to help build a set of broad expectations for promotion and tenure of engineering technology faculty which are recognized by all colleagues in engineering, engineering technology and science.