Dr. Bartlett taught mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering subjects while performing related research at North Dakota State University from 1987 to 2004.
While at NDSU, his teaching and research foci included lean manufacturing, design for manufacturability, aircraft structures certification, failure analysis, electronics manufacturing, medical device development, nano-scale process engineering, family-based rural economic development, and implementation of the Christian philosophy in science, mathematics, engineering, technology and education. He was safety officer for the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at NDSU for many years.
Dr. Bartlett and his wife Lynn have been happily married for over 17 years and home school four boys. The Bartletts led Christian ministries for college singles and married couples for over seven years, developed and advised college campus Christian student and faculty ministries, and see the Biblical worldview (Isaiah 55:8-9; 1 Corinthians 1:27) as foundational for Christian education at all levels of learning and for maturity in the Body of Christ.
Dr. Bartlett learned automotive technology (AAS, NH Vocational Technical College, 1979), mechanical engineering (BS General Motors Institute & Purdue University, 1983 & MS, North Dakota State University, 1989), and Engineering (PhD, North Dakota State University, 1992). He received Christ in 1983. He and his wife began home educating their sons in 1994 (Deuteronomy 6:7).
Dr. Bartlett taught and performed research in bone biomechanics, aircraft manufacturing, and electronics manufacturing engineering for 17 years at North Dakota State University. His 10 years of industry experience derive from General Motors, Northwest Airlines, and his engineering consulting business. In 2003, The Society of Manufacturing Engineers awarded him the prestigious international Sargent Americanism Award for innovatively teaching the business of manufacturing.
As God revealed to Dr. Bartlett that western culture had been secularized by Christian educators, the Holy Spirit led him to depart the secular university to pursue the implementation of a thoroughly Christian philosophy of education in his teaching, research and service, as an example to his own children and others (John 13:15; 1 Timothy 4:12). He integrates the Christian faith with his teaching as exemplified in his papers titled Corrosion Illustrating Sin, Learning Pedagogy from the Master Teacher, Learning Biblical Business, Learning through Entrepreneurship, Secularization by the Christian Educator, The Family University and Network, and others.
Dr. Bartlett was a leader in the development and implementation of a funded three million dollar National Science Foundation grant (2000 to 2004) to improve science and math education in the public schools of Minnesota and North Dakota. This experience further convinced him that large amounts of money are not needed to improve math and science education. Instead, the Biblical view of math, science, technology, engineering, business, and education (Matthew 6:24) are needed to optimize the learning of science and math.
Dr. Bartlett began his Christian church experience in a Plymouth Brethren Church while attending Purdue University in 1983. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Bartlett has held leadership positions in a Baptist church, an Assembly of God church, and now a home church consisting of several families from various denominational backgrounds. The Bartletts embrace historic Christianity as declared in the Scriptures and have the same vision for God-honoring cultural change as did the Christians of the European Reformation of the 16th Century.
Dr. Bartlett is also the Executive Director of the North Dakota Home School Association.