On Being a Professor with another Profession

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On Being a Professor with another Profession
Jeffrey L. Streator, Ph.D. Associate Professor G.
W. Woodruff School of Mechanical
Engineering Pastor Summer Hill African Methodist
Episcopal Church Rome, GA
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Some Academic Milestones . . .

• 1984 A.B., Harvard University, Engineering
  Sciences
• 1986 M.S., U.C. Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering
• 1990 Ph.D, U.C. Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering
• Joined Mech. Engr. Faculty at Georgia Tech
• 1996 Promoted to Assoc. Prof./Granted Tenure

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Some Ministerial Milestones . . .

• 1994 Accepted Call to Ministry
• Received 1st-level Ordination (i.e., became
  Rev. Streator)
• 2000 Appointed as Pastor to Summer Hill A.M.E.
• 2001 Received Full Ordination

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Academic Careers Afford . . .

• I. Challenges!
• -research
• get funding, write papers, manage graduate
  students, travel to conferences
• -teaching
• prepare lecture, manage courses, interface with
  students
• -service
• committees unit level, institute level,
  professional level
• educational outreach, mentorship (e.g., FACES,
  STEP)

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Academic Careers Afford . . .

• II. Chances
• -to discover
• learn things that nobody else yet knows
• -to develop
• grow intellectually explore new areas
• -to impact
• your research, education and service change
  lives and/or the quality of life

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Academic Careers Afford . . .

• III. Choices
• -autonomy
• you choose how you organize your time, your
  courses, your research enterprise, the level of
  service (with some constraints)
• -creativity
• limited only by your imagination . . .(and you
  ability to get funding for it!)

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Flow Chart
Questions?