They are very active in professional societies, with several active in organizing conferences each year. Most are Professional Engineers, Architects or Geologists. Three are Drexel B.S. graduates. An advantage of Drexel s location in an urban area is the availability of well qualified practicing professionals with a desire to teach. This allows engaging exactly the right instructor for specialized classes.
Most adjunct faculty are senior members of their firms or agencies.
In addition, Auxiliary faculty with qualifications in written and oral communications are associated with the Department. Although all departmental faculty take serious and share responsibility for implementing ABET criteria in communications and ethics and professionalism, CAE also recognizes the unique public responsibilities of civil and architectural engineers by retaining an engineering communications and ethics specialist. This auxiliary faculty member, vice president of a management consulting firm, is a Ph.D. in logic and semantics, a trained moralist, and experienced in written, oral, and graphic communication. Department faculty also work with the Humanities and Communications Department s Writing Across the Curriculum program. Three Emeritus professors, including the former Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Richard E. Woodring, are in residence.