A New Apprenticeship
A New Apprenticeship
A key component of an architect’s education is apprenticeship. How can we nurture informal learning and mentorship in an online working environment?
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The delicate dance that occurs among collaborators when tackling a design problem is a balance of ideas, communication and ego. Innovation can be sparked with a seemingly innocuous comment; heated debates can occur as different paths emerge. It can be exciting. It can be difficult. Emotions that run high must be acknowledged, then relinquished to refocus on the task at hand.
I learned this lesson and many others as a junior intern while working on a very large, complex project. Its success required close collaboration between several strong leaders. Sitting within earshot from two of the project’s architectural principals and working elbow-to-elbow with talented colleagues, the open studio working environment was a crucible of learning. My actual tasks were simple, but by b
Mike Mowins on leadership: Naval Academy taught value of serving those you lead
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Mar 02, 2021
Mike Mowins, president and owner of Vetted Tech Inc., and Technical Director Josh Weaver (right) hold stainless steel parts made in the machine behind them.Courtesy Vetted Tech
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Mike Mowins graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979, received a physical disability discharge, and ultimately landed with Phillips Screw Company for 31 years. The company was founded in the 1930s by Henry Frank Phillips, who gave his name to the new kind of screw head and screwdriver and turned it into a business.
WASHINGTON, D.C. • A bill that would name a post office after a well-known Tupelo veteran passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night.
COPPERAS COVE â Bill Evans was preparing to fight to the death after his reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Vietnam, but as he and two shaken-up buddies hunkered down and waited for enemy troops to appear out of the surrounding jungle, they saw one of the most beautiful sights any combat soldier can see.
âThe pilot, co-pilot and I all agreed we were not going to be taken prisoner,â said Evans, a retired U.S. Army master sergeant who served two tours in Vietnam, 1964-65 and 1968-69. âWe werenât going to go to the Hanoi Hilton (notorious prisoner-of-war camp), so we were prepared to shoot it out with them.â
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This is Part III of a multi-part series on Navy’s SERE school. You can read Part I here and Part II here. Stay tuned for the next installment.
Approaching Brunswick NAS we passed numerous small islands and slim peninsulas that extended like the fingers of a hand into Casco Bay. From the air, all airports look similar but as you get close to a Naval Air Station its unique features begin to stand out. Neatly laid out rows of uniform buildings, a web of ring-like cul-de-sacs that lead to underground munitions bunkers and large hangers.
Brunswick had been an important patrol base for Navy bombers during WWII covering convoys and hunting German U-boats off the coast. It had been deactivated for about a decade after the war until the emerging threat of Soviet submarines off the U.S. coast became apparent and the base had been reopened and expanded. The base had two parallel, 8,000 ft runways and a couple of P-3 Squadrons based there. When combined with the P-3s deployed