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John L. CrowAlumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus |
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John L. Crow received a BS in Industrial Arts, an MS in Industrial and Technical Education, and an EdD in Adult and Community College Education from North Carolina State University. In the summer of 1967, he was selected to participate in an international, inter-denominational seminar sponsored by the United Church of Christ to observe, first-hand, the status of the Church in eastern European countries then controlled by the former Soviet Union. From 1975-1979, he was a local pastor in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church in addition to maintaining his teaching responsibilities at NCSU.
John is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at NCSU and was selected as an NCSU Alumni Distinguished Professor in 1984. He is co-author of four Engineering Graphics Workbooks and/or Worksheets.
Dr. Crow retired from full-time service at NCSU in 1992 after teaching for 30 years. He currently teaches part-time as an Assistant Professor Emeritus. His vocational interests include swimming, running, idea sketching and writing, reading and growing exotic farm crops.
Research Areas
Creativity, Student Evaluations, Three-Dimensional Shape Visualization and Visual Thinking.
Research Description
Dr. Crow's research interests and writings include: the creativity process and how it is enhanced; personality and academic environmental factors; congruency and the effects on student evaluation of instruction; and selected psychobiological variables and their relationship to visualize orthographic projection drawings.
Courses Taught
• GC101: Engineering Graphics I
• GC120: Foundations of Graphics
• GC250: Engineering Graphics II
• GC320: Three-Dimensional Space Relations
• GC420: Visual Thinking
