Vision
The College of Technology is committed to its graduate program and to offering the technology profession’s leading Ph.D. and master’s programs. These graduate programs implement its scholarly responsibility to advance the disciplines of technology and to develop advanced level professionals who engage in technology, technological education, and related leadership. The faculty recognizes a genuine responsibility to prepare future scholar-practitioners for the technological enterprise in both public (education and government) and private sector environments. The Ph.D. program represents the college’s most advanced manifestation of this commitment.
Purpose
Through the doctoral program faculty seek to provide degree candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to advance the discipline and its practice. The primary purposes of the program are to prepare scholarly faculty for technology education programs throughout the nation and world, and advanced leader/researchers for public and private sector environments employing such levels of personnel. In doing so, the program also develops the concomitant skills involved in technology-relevant knowledge development, synthesis, and assessment. Candidates may also prepare for leadership roles in fields such as technology transfer, technology human resource development, technology teaching, or supervision of technology in private and public sector agencies.
Graduates of the program are expected to demonstrate an appropriate level of mastery of the discipline of technology, both in general and with respect to the technological focus built into their program. Given this, the program is structured to enable the development of the technological focus as well as a broad understanding of the discipline.
Successful Ph.D. candidates will demonstrate advanced ability to:
- Envision, plan and conduct research and development activities;
- Identify, comprehend, analyze, evaluate and synthesize research;
- Evaluate technologies and technology-related programs;
- Assess individual performance with, and understanding of, technology;
- Communicate effectively and employ constructive professional and interpersonal skills; and
- Function in one or more of the technology disciplines.