Modular construction methods have recently gained interest due to the advantages offered in terms of safety, quality, and productivity for projects. In this method, a significant portion of the construction is performed off-site in factories where modular components are built in different workstations, assembled on the production line, and shipped...
Advanced geomatics tools such as robotic and terrestrial laser scanners have the potential to significantly improve the progress monitoring of construction sites throughout their life cycle, particularly in the concrete structures, from the initial stage to cracking the ground for excavation and shoring to outdoor pouring of concrete at above...
PTIE, if adopted at an institution, invokes a new learning curve for most faculty that have limited or misconceived understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation activity. Specifically, the definitions of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity, innovation, product development, commercialization are all new to most faculty. Further, the metrics that will be newly offered...
Tenure has often been situated as a non-negotiable tenet of modern academia, a status granted after a probationary period and extensive review, and critical for academic freedom. However, the processes by which promotion and tenure (P&T) are vetted depart in practice from the meritocratic ideal that is frequently used to...
This collection houses the proceedings of the 20th biennial conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET), entitled Managing a Changing Environment. The conference took place at Auditorio Mar de Vigo in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, from 18-22 July 2022. Conference organizers were M. Dolores Garza-Gil (University of...
The NJIT Faculty Senate Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Academic Activities (Research Committee) drafted a white paper on recommendations for Future NJIT Research that represents the consensus of the Research Committee. It was approved unanimously by the Faculty Senate and sent to the new president of NJIT. There are...
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Recent work in university-anchored innovation and entrepreneurship capacity building has emphasized the importance of "boundary spanners" - people who can span the boundary between the conventional world of university research, and innovation and entrepreneurship. Of particular import are boundary-spanning faculty, who link organically to the world of academic...
ASU is consistently identified as the number one university in innovation. But how does that apply to P&T guidelines? I'll discuss some of the issues that arise in considering innovative work in the promotion and tenure process: how it can be incorporated and what the limitations may be.
In recent years, the Promotion and Tenure process has been increasingly called into question by state lawmakers, public citizens, and even the academic community. With such questions in mind, Ball State University has worked to amend our promotion and tenure procedures to embrace inclusion and innovation, both by emphasizing the...
The COVID19 pandemic has underscored the pressing need for the science community to better engage the public that supports its work. The author will describe pilot projects and pathways forward to accelerate the uptake of graduate education coursework to prepare scientists to better understand the public context of their work...
Based on long-standing involvement and experience with promotion and tenure at the university level, in this paper, we examine the importance of university strategic planning and holistic faculty evaluation in realization and implementation of the promotion and tenure - innovation and entrepreneurship (PTIE) recommendations. After developing a reflection protocol, we...