Terence J Fagan

I am currently the Engineering Chair at Central Piedmont Community College, which I have been for the past 3 years now. I received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2005. My love of engineering came from early childhood; taking apart anything I could get my hands on and not always putting it back together (Ask my parents). I have always loved and excelled in Math, and ok in Science so I went to school for engineering, not the best reason. Through undergraduate at University of North Carolina at Charlotte I made it through not on application but relied on my mathematic ability (The thermal problem looks like a second order differential equation, I can solve it this way). In graduate school working under a Tool and Die Maker I connected my ability in math and science with the application. Realizing a disconnect our education system, I am a huge proponent of constructivism. I also am adjunct faculty teaching machine shop, basic lathe and mill skills. It was not until looking for a job after graduate school I thought he would give teaching a try. (His wife and mom are both English teachers and I was a TA in the shop to undergrads) Luckily I did and found my true calling. I serve as Engineering Program Chair for Central Piedmont Community College CPCC in the Engineering Technologies Division. Currently, I serve as Treasurer of IEEE Charlotte Section and Past Division Chair for New Engineering Educators (NEE) of the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), IEEE member advising IEEE student CPCC Student Chapter, and is a US FIRST mentor. Please email me at terence.fagan@cpcc.edu if you want any more information or interested in collaborating on a project.