Tutoring objective

Provide personalized guidance for career advancement. Give insight and deeper explanations to the school's course material. The tutoring is to help the learner overcome the obstacles and succeed in completing with good marks.

Tutoring subjects

Engineering, Technology and Supply Chain Management as applied to an industrial career.

Who will benefit from this tutoring

• Motivated learners who want to advance their careers and and are willing to put in the time and effort to do so.
• Mid-career professionals who are apprehensive about being able to tackle a full university course again.
• Professionals who are finding technology has advanced faster than they have been able to keep up.

Areas where assistance can be made

• Understanding the body of knowledge for the course.
• Help when mistakes are present in specific problems.
  It is hard enough learning the material, no need to get further stressed when mistakes are present in the examples and exercise problems (and there are quite a few).
• Planning which courses are best to aim for and in what order to take them.
• Assessment of what the learner is capable of doing.
• A reasonable estimate of how long goals will take to achieve.
• Guidance on a realistic approach given the available time allocated.
• Strategies for getting higher grades in courses.
  In the academic world, unlike in industry, grades are very important. Getting good grades in essential to opening up opportunities. There is absolutely no reward for the effort of trying more than you can handle and failing. There are many effective strategies to achieve good grades. The art is the pick the best for each course and circumstance. Often one should apply more than one method simultaneously. Here are a few of the methods:
• Two-pass method:
  Taking the course once for audit and learning as much as you can. Then take the course again for credit. This works best in an online MOOQ environment. However, there are ways to do the same for campus classes. Before you take a class for credit you want to make sure you know as much of the material as possible. Between 70 and 90% of the body of knowledge needs to be understood if you want a decent chance at a good grade.
• Absolute mastery method:
  For courses where solving specific finite problems is the main focus, such as math, science or programming, one solves as many problems as possible to have the dexterity and mastery so that you can survive almost anything thrown at you. For example in a mechanics class, one would solve every problem in the textbook in order from beginning to end. This method may take a lot of time up front, but the result is the absolute ability to score very high in the course and in all subsequent classes that build upon it. It is a high-cost but high-reward method.
• Requested plus one method:
  In this you listen very carefully in each and every class to what the instructor says is needed for a good grade and you do each and every thing stated without question. Every opportunity for extra credit is taken. For each item requested to be done find a way to do it even better than requested. All submissions should be as neat and clean as possible.
• Perspective on how professors usually think and how to get on their better side. Some hints:
• There is nothing more demoralizing to an instructor than students who have no motivation for the class. Make sure you show interest and enthusiasm for the course and the subject.
• Instructors rarely have small classes, especially online. Make sure you are visible and known to the instructor. Attend every class. Come early to class. Stay late after class. Sit in the front row. Participate and contribute. This alone will not get you a good grade. But it, along with hard and smart work will get you ahead.
• Ask questions during class when appropriate. For what cannot be asked in class or is hard to ask quickly put your question(s) in writing and make sure it is well thought out. Make sure the answer is not easily found with an online search. If you can, send the written question(s) to the instructor and then follow up asking to discuss the question in person or by phone or video chat if necessary. You will learn more about the subject you are learning and you will be remembered favorably by the instructor. However, don't fake the questions. Make sure you are really interested in the answer.
• Successful studying tactics.
  There are many and each tactic should be customized to the the individual learner and their circumstance as well as what subject they are trying to learn. Study tactics are tools. You do not use all your tools at the same time. The right tool at the right time for the right job makes things go smoothly. Here are some of the many tactics in no particular order that parts can be selected from:
• The Marty Lobdell Suite
• SQ3R method - Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review & PQRST method - Preview, Question, Read, Summary, Test
• SMART skills - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely
• Arrange Your World
• Mind Mapping
• Flashcard drill
• Acronyms and mnemonics
• Diagramming
• Pomodoro time management
• KWL - What I Know, What I Want to know, What I Learned
• Test taking strategies that minimize stress.

Academic Institutions Types Supported

• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offering certificates in industrial subjects
• Community Colleges offering certificates & Associates Degrees in industrial related subjects
• Universities offering Bachelors & Masters Degrees in industrial oriented subjects