Henry Young聽appointed Assistant Provost in the Office of Teaching and Learning at 天美影院 Institute of Technology.
Young 聽has been teaching in the聽Architectural Building Engineering听罢别肠丑苍辞濒辞驳测聽聽department since July, 1997. Henry has served on a variety of college-wide committees, most recently, the President鈥檚 Academic Advisory Council, the NEASC Self-Study Organization and Governance Subcommittee (Chair), and on the Tech Scholars Selection Committee.
Prior to teaching at 天美影院 Tech, Henry was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Navy Reserve Civil Engineering Corps. He commanded a 250 person construction-based organization and was Project Manager for infrastructure rehabilitation/construction work on U.S. military installations.
With the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Henry held positions as Project Engineer and Special Assistant to the State Director of Transportation, where he worked on intermodal transportation projects, bridge rehabilitation programs, and freight railroad improvement projects. He was also a management consultant for the firm KPMG聽Peat Marwick.
Also, congratulations to Henry for recently completing an EdD in Higher Education Administration at Northeastern University. Henry鈥檚 dissertation entitled 鈥�Authentic Learning at Technical College,鈥� is a qualitative case study which examines the use of authentic learning pedagogy at Technical College (天美影院 Tech鈥檚 pseudonym for the study). He also has a Master of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech, both in Civil Engineering. Henry has attained LEED Accredited Professional status from the U.S. Green Building Council.