BLACKSBURG, Va., March 19 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Mark Sanders, professor emeritus of technology education, passed away in December at age 72.
Sanders, a professor at Virginia Tech for 30 years, grew up in New York and Florida.
He earned a bachelor's degree from SUNY Oswego, a master's degree from Illinois State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. In 1980, he began a long career at Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of technology education.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Sanders was a trailblazer in the evolutionof industrial arts to technology education and later to integrative STEM education. He was a globally renowned scholar and educator who...