By Donnie Gladfelter on August 15, 2009
In my last post I spoke about the power of reinforcement in the world of education. My point to making the connection between academia and corporate learning is that reinforcement is no less important in academia than it is in a corporate learning environment. But without report cards, parent-teacher conferences, and other staples of [...]
Posted in CAD Management | Tagged Education, Training
By Donnie Gladfelter on August 11, 2009
It’s hard to believe, but 3 weeks ago I started my employment with Ronald A. Williams. Last week was quite exciting as I got to meet a number of our customers for the first time at a CTE conference. For those outside the education world, CTE stands for Career & Technical Education, and is [...]
Posted in CAD Management | Tagged Education, Training
By Donnie Gladfelter on July 30, 2008
As many of you may already know I am proud to say that I am both an Eagle Scout and Vigil Honor Member in the Order of the Arrow (Scoutings National Honor Society). Most recently, my local council (Heart of Virginia Council) has been leading an initiative to form a local Eagle Scout Alumni [...]
Posted in CAD Management | Tagged Boy Scouts, CAD Management, Servant Leadership
By Donnie Gladfelter on June 18, 2008
Brian Benton of CAD-a-Blog recently commented on my last post Engineered Efficiency offers Unlimited Live Training, telling a story I hear all too often. Let me summarize; in short his firm upgraded to Civil 3D 2007 a couple years ago, but aren’t using Civil 3D – instead they’re running “Civil 3D as AutoCAD”. Doing that [...]
Posted in CAD Management | Tagged CAD Management, Civil 3D, Upgrading
By Donnie Gladfelter on May 11, 2008
Plotting is a topic so simple in theory, but yet so difficult in practice. Looking no further than my own firm, I can attest for the difficulties users encounter while plotting. Prior to standardizing the plotting process within my firm; a typical week of support contained 2-3 requests about plotting. Today those requests have [...]
Posted in CAD Management | Tagged CAD Management, STB, Style Based Plotting
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