WHY?
Because of circumstances that can only be called some sort of convoluted career path, I earned credit & training from numerous schools: UofMichigan, UofLouisville, SouthernIllinoisCarbondale, UofIllinoisUrbana, DePauw, UofMaryland, Penn State, UC Davis, UofWisconsinMadison, Dartmouth, Duke, Missouri Columbia, Virginia Tech, Northeastern, Wichita State, College Board, State U., now Wichita State on scholarship.
Time to say Thanks! and give back!
I have carefully first hand tested all proposed activities and "framework" components myself for many, many years, id est mentoring, Capstones/themed websites, and outreach.
Gathered and ongoing feedback from mentees is terrific!
I can readily associate comprobable, extensive training and professional documented exposure/practice in a number of fields (business, computers CS/IT, cybersecurity, education, environment science, engineering, manufacturing, languages) including technical and educational paper principal authorship/online publications/conference speaker.
It would be great to somehow give back. The Ph.D. path seems to be an awesome way to articulate this. I must have been one of the most [remote] pampered engineers ever (no, I was never able to pay them back except for gratitude, tons of life long/life changing pointers). Partial listing: Dr. James C. Young (over 25 years!), Dr. Clifford W. Randall (VTech), Dr. B.J. Lerner (Beco Engineering), Dr. Phil OLeary (Wisconsin Madison), Chuck Brunner (incinerators), Dr. Mike Switzenbaum (UMass), Gastle Lettinga, Dr.Curt McDowell, Chuck Tharp, Dr. Vikram Pattarkine, Chris Tasser, Dr. Glen Daigger, John Harrison, Arturo Manjarrez/Kurt Liebendorfer (Evapco), Anant Upadyahyah, Yves Haegeman, Dr. Rob Segar (Missouri Columbia) , Dr. Sarina Ergas (bioremediation; UCF), Dr. Holland (Hydrosonic Venturi Scrubbers), Brian Graham (IPEC screens), Randy Meetze (FRC Dafs), Bob Johnston (Vincent Corp.), Nils & Mimi Young (DBS Manufacturing), Rich Aull (cooling towers, Brentwood Industries), Kody Ballard (Dupont CCRO), Dr. William Ritter (U Delaware), Bob Kolvoord (James Madison U.)
Going for a Ph.D. will help provide a formal" project" backbone. Will greatly help as well bring quarters/ disciplines together, id est academic fields, schools & marketplace, common grounds institutions, practicing professionals and to-be-launched young talent. Said undertaking will seek 24/7/365 industry input & insights (engineering/manufacturing/science/CS/IT/ education/cybersec).
I'm ready for sharing in larger scale projects than the ones I'm presently able to pursue, even if it's just "mentoring." Also, my daughter transferred from Argentina and then to Mexico and then the U.S. and now definitely to Spain! To a certain extent that's a nice reason to dedust, update and augment my own global credentials/scope/range as well, Dad time to go for a Ph.D! Jim said same thing. That, or being closer to the teams, would certainly help propel any project.
I owe a lot to numerous universities. Quite a few faculty members helped.