PROJECT GOALS

This project is designed to determine the most effective methods for teaching textile programs and to share these methodologies with persons who teach textile courses to students, either at companies or universities. In this project we will build on existing techniques, especially ones that are not as routinely used in textile education as one might hope. We will explore and develop these techniques in the context of textile education, with its particular requirements. Some example requirements are the need to understand complex machinery, the difficulty in teaching both team building and leadership as well as engineering skills, the need for extensive hands-on techniques that can be used to effectively communicate with and impart knowledge to students. The goal is that implementation of these teaching methodologies will better prepare students to be productive and dynamics members of the textile industry. The latest information on this project is contained in the