← Education & Training Development Division

Professional Training & Skills Center

Delivers hands-on training programs, workshops, and continuing education for geoscience and energy professionals, combining software training, field methods, and laboratory skills instruction with simulation-based, case-study learning.

⚙️ GeoVerse System Administration Division 🖥️ AI & Computing Sciences Division 🔬 Basic Sciences Division ⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division 🛢️ Resource & Energy Engineering Division 🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions Division 💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy Division 🎓 Education & Training Development Division 🚀 Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Curriculum Development & Design Center Professional Training & Skills Center Educational Technology & Innovation Center Assessment & Certification Center

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Benjamin Bloom

Center Head

💡 Bloom's taxonomy of learning objectives

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1850–1924

Samuel Gompers

Researcher

💡 Founded and led the American Federation of Labor, establishing structured, union-negotiated apprenticeship pathways that became the template for modern registered apprenticeship and technical-certification systems

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1730–1794

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Researcher

💡 Transformed the ragged Continental Army at Valley Forge into a disciplined, professional fighting force through an intensive, standardized drill program, earning recognition as a father of the US Army's training system

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1937–2017

John Whitmore

Researcher

💡 Pioneered the executive coaching industry and co-developed the GROW model, a structured question-based coaching methodology

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1862–1945

Florence Bascom

Researcher

💡 Founded the geology department at Bryn Mawr College and personally trained a generation of field geologists through mentored field-mapping instruction, becoming the first woman to work for the USGS

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1927–1995

Thomas F. Gilbert

Researcher

💡 Founded Human Performance Technology, recognizing that training changes knowledge but environmental supports are needed to actually change workplace behavior

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1924–2014

Donald L. Kirkpatrick

Researcher

💡 Created the highly influential Four-Level Model (reaction, learning, behavior, results) for evaluating professional training programs

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1912–1965

Paul Fitts

Researcher

💡 Formulated a staged model of motor and cognitive skill acquisition and Fitts's Law, one of the most successful mathematical models of human movement, founding human factors engineering

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1862–1938

Charles R. Allen

Researcher

💡 Developed the Show-Tell-Do-Check four-step Job Instruction Training method, rapidly training 450,000 WWI shipyard workers and founding the Training Within Industry movement

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1886–1962

Herbert William Heinrich

Researcher

💡 Founded scientific industrial safety analysis with Heinrich's Law/pyramid, arguing accident prevention requires systematically addressing unsafe acts and conditions, not just major incidents

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1926–2018

Jens Rasmussen

Researcher

💡 Developed the Skills-Rules-Knowledge (SRK) framework and risk-management models explaining how operators process information and where human error arises in complex safety-critical systems

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1888–1955

Dale Carnegie

Researcher

💡 Built one of the world's first large-scale professional-development course businesses teaching public speaking, salesmanship, and interpersonal skills to working adults

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1906–1964

Douglas McGregor

Researcher

💡 Formulated Theory X and Theory Y, contrasting assumptions about employee motivation that determine whether organizational training is designed as directive control or participative development

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