ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, October 4, 1996 TAG: 9610040033
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS STAFF WRITER
TWO VIRGINIA TECH professors are using a $95,000 fellowship to develop continuing education classes.
Professional education programs that mean more business for the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center are being developed by two Virginia Tech professors in conjunction with various industries and organization.
Greg Boardman, an associate professor of civil engineering, and Daniel Schneck, a professor of engineering science and mechanics, are using a $95,000 fellowship from Tech's Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement and Tech's engineering school to develop continuing education and outreach programs in their own areas of expertise.
They also will advise the university's faculty how to develop similar sessions.
One of the objectives of the program is to promote the Hotel Roanoke's conference center as a site for continuing education programs, Schneck said. The idea is to promote continuing education partnerships involving the university, corporations and nonprofit organizations, he said.
He and Boardman are targeting five sectors for these cooperative efforts: engineering, bio-technical and life sciences, business, education, and government and nonprofits.
"One important goal of the COTA fellowships," Boardman said, "is to work with industries and other organizations to develop programs that will serve their professional needs."
Schneck has scheduled a conference for the hotel next April 25-27 on noninvasive ultrasonic medical imaging that, he said, will feature the nation's foremost specialist in the field. Co-sponsors for the meeting, he said, will be Carilion Health System, Columbia/ HCA Healthcare Corp. and makers of ultrasonic equipment, including General Electric Co. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
Also among Schneck's plans are a short course in the engineering physiology of the human cardiovascular system, the 18th Annual Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference and bio-mechanics courses.
Next November, Schneck said he hoped to schedule a conference at the hotel on the scientific and physiological basis for the use of music therapy for children with special needs, such as autistic children.
Virginia Tech's private real estate foundation is a part owner of the hotel and conference center.
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