Continuing from previous work in which a new teaching philosophy was developed, this paper discusses the management tools used to make it function in practice. Teaching has become virtual. Time has been promoted to the single most important resource, is used efficiently and accounted for accurately. Quality control has become a common tool of performance evaluation. The relationship between teacher and students mimics an industrial setting in which results are required and tolerance levels are low. Excellent technical documents are produced. The ratio of knowledge gained to time spent has reached an optimum level and job satisfaction of both teacher and students is high.
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