Big congrats to Kurt Rouser, on his recent promotion to associate professor (action grants tenure), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University.
[Read more…]Show Students You Care
PAI Teaching Associate Dr Aaron Byerley often cites this quote attributed to Theodore Roosevelt “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” (Roosevelt’s original quote used “People” instead of Students). That care, that innate desire for students to learn remain top priorities of PAI teaching. When asked about what feedback they’d been hearing about our classes, a longstanding customer recently shared “…great teaching, approachable teachers with an obvious passion for what they do.”
[Read more…]PAI Recommended Reading and Viewing List
These recommended titles come from our owners and teaching associates who enjoyed the read/viewing. Hope you enjoy some of them as well!
PAI does not receive any compensation for these recommendations – we simply like airplanes.
[Read more…]The Power of a Piece of Paper
A great read (written by our own Mark Jones Jr.) at the start of a new year…”we all get a chance to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and to launch our ideas into the world.”
[Read more…]Bill Heiser Memoriam
It is not circumstantial, and indeed entirely fitting, that I find myself writing another one of these for “Uncle Bill,” “Dr H,” William H. Heiser, after his passing on September 26, 2022…one year to the day when Jack Mattingly passed. The two were great friends, the closest of friends, humanly and spiritually. At the urging of Jack, who flew to Colorado Springs weeks before his own death to convince Bill to move to the Seattle area close to family, Bill moved into his new Seattle residence on the day of Jack’s passing.
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