Associate Professor
Penn State University
Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States
PETER J. SHULL is a Professor of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. After a successful career in the technical field of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and having worked at the Nation Institute of Standards and Technology (the location of the atomic clock--US standard time), Dr. Shull returned to academia and began his career in education. From the first day, Dr. Shull noted an apparent lack of sound educational practice in higher education. This is reflected by Dr. Shull’s Ph.D. advisor's belief—“If you know the material, you’ll be a great teacher!” Recognizing that one’s degree of knowledge has no relationship to their understanding of pedagogy or their ability to apply it, over the past 23 years, Dr. Shull has maintained an active focus on sound pedagogy as related to STEM education. These efforts have been divided into understanding pedagogical theory and the pragmatic application in the classroom. His primary areas of focus are teaching functional and effective teamwork, how professional skills function as student success skills, and primary factors that influence student success. Much of the work is based in social-emotional development and personal responsibility (inherently difficult areas for most STEM students) and cognitive/affective and metacognitive/metaaffective methods to improve student learning. Additionally, Dr. Shull has maintained a special focus on success of underrepresented engineering students.
Dr. Shull has developed a series of popular pedagogical workshops to address these issues. He has authored numerous publications in the field of pedagogy, student/professional success factors, and the technical area of NDE including the two popular textbooks Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Technique, and Applications (Marcel Dekker, 2001) and X-Ray Imaging Fundamentals, Industrial Techniques and Applications (CRC Press, 2017). He is a Fulbright Scholar (Argentina—2006).
Dr. Shull received his BS ME from Bucknell University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Johns Hopkins University.
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W6 - Low Cost--High Impact: Success Skills Students Will Actually Use
Friday, November 8, 2024
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
