{"id":5257,"date":"2019-10-18T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:25:24","slug":"from-the-industry-to-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/2019\/from-the-industry-to-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"From the industry to the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andrew Hoitink\u2019s career as a Mechanical\nEngineer has included some fascinating projects \u2013 ranging from the virtual to\nthe microscopic. As a lab assistant during College he helped build finite\nelement software used for dynamic contact\/impact simulations at the Army High\nPerformance Computing Research Center. And as a Research and Development\nEngineer for Intel, he developed modules for parts smaller than a strand of\nhair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you had asked him when he first started\nhis studies at the University of Minnesota if he ever thought that he would one\nday be teaching Mechanical Engineering, the answer would most likely have been\nno – especially having spent the first three semesters of his undergraduate\ncareer in the Physics department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few conversations with a friend who\nhad already been through the Physics program, Hoitink began to rethink the path\nthat he had initially set out on and decided to reroute into the Mechanical\nEngineering program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMechanical Engineering was the applied\nversion of Physics,\u201d Hoitink recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back, the switch was a natural fit.\nGrowing up, Hoitink had spent a lot of his time taking apart and reassembling\ndifferent items throughout his parent\u2019s home in Rosemount. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey knew that sometimes whatever I took\napart might not make it back together, but they saw it as a learning\nopportunity for me and were never really mad about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was that sort of support and sense of\ndiscovery that gave Hoitink a real appreciation for project-based learning, and\npart of the reason that he continued his studies at the University of Minnesota\nto complete not only a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, but his masters and\ndoctorate degrees as well. It was the chance to participate in co-op programs,\ninternships, and the opportunity to work with graduate advisors on projects in\nthe lab that kept Hoitink interested in furthering his education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of all of his studies, one thing that\nHoitink said would not change if he had to do it all again would be working as\na teaching assistant all throughout graduate school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe amount of stuff you learn from teaching\nothers is invaluable,\u201d he said. \u201cYou learn 10 times more about that material\nthan you would have studying it on your own. The pressure to know the material\nreally well is really different. It forces you to look at questions from a\ndifferent angle than you might naturally approach it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Andrew
Andrew Hoitink explains a classroom exercise to a student.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After a chance meeting with a representative\nfrom Intel at a school career fair, Hoitink found \u00adhimself interviewing for a\nsummer internship in Portland to work on simulations for them. He landed the\ninternship, and a year before completing his doctorate, he interviewed for and\naccepted a full-time position in Arizona. He was hired as a Research and Development\nEngineer and worked with a group doing accelerated testing for CPU\u2019s as well as\ndevelopment for next generation parts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoitink enjoyed being a part of huge company\nthat focused on making such small, powerful objects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou were forced to be multi-disciplinary and\nyour job was to solve problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoitink would continue solving problems for\nIntel for eight years, four years in Arizona and the rest in Portland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portland would bring a change of scenery and a\nchance to work in a different capacity within Intel within a pathfinding group\nin module development with a focus on making things faster, smaller, and more\neconomical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Minnesota has always been home, and\nHoitink and his family recently made the trek back to the Twin Cities \u2013 which\nhas possibly brought upon the biggest change of scenery yet. A spot back in the\nclassroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoitink jumped on board this fall at Dunwoody\nas a Senior Instructor of Mechanical Engineering. With extensive experience in\nthe industry and a deep appreciation for the power and impact that a hands-on\nlearning experience can have, he is excited to be stepping into this new\nprogram that is still moldable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having had a hand in a lot of interviewing at\nIntel for incoming hires, Hoitink saw first-hand that just because someone\nmight have a Ph.D. behind their name doesn\u2019t mean that they know how to do\neverything. At one point he joked that he thought about bringing in a toolbox\nand some old equipment during interviews to see what those potential hires\nwould do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the students here at Dunwoody, he is\nexcited about their potential and their promise as they develop the skills they\nneed for their future careers and he fully appreciates the opportunity he has\nbeen given to help them along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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