14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference
University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee
July 30, 2023
July 30, 2023
August 1, 2023
Workshops
30
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Dr. Todd Hamrick, Ph.D. is aTeaching Professor in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program at West Virginia University Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, a position he has held since 2011.
Dr. Almasri is currently a teaching assistant professor in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program (FEP) at the Statler College of Engineering, West Virginia University. He has been serving in this position since 2020. Before joining West Virginia University, he worked as an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Imam University for 10 years. Dr. Almasri holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, as well as master's and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering.
Dr. Hulcher is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. He has been in his current role at WVU since 2020. Dr. Hulcher holds degrees in Civil Engineering, as well as Mathematics.
Dr. Xinyu Zhang is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program of Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resource at West Virginia University. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2012 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a licensed P.E. in North Carolina. Her research interests include STEM education such as broadening participation in engineering and advanced technologies for STEM education, engineering entrepreneurship, environmental engineering, and sustainable biomanufacturing. She started to lead a summer bridge program for incoming first-year engineering students called Academy of Engineering Success (AcES) in 2021.
Akua Oppong-Anane is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. She holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, a master's degree in Chemistry and a doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering Sciences. Her research areas are in groundwater contamination at landfill sites, advising and retention of first year engineering students.
Team teaching has great advantages for both students and faculty but can be challenging to implement. Team teaching is defined here as each instructor teaching a different section of the same course and coordinating on the material and overall course schedule. Some advantages are that instructors can divide the workload, generate and develop new ideas, build on one another’s strengths, ensure consistency among different class sections, and effectively integrate new faculty member into the teaching team. Students see uniformity across sections, interesting and applicable projects, and assessments that are fair and consistent. Challenges can include lower levels of autonomy, communication problems, and a risk of students in different sections copying work. A Mid Atlantic University has a common first year program for all incoming freshmen in the engineering college. All of the primary courses in the program are team taught. After more than a decade of team teaching, the faculty in the college’s Fundamentals of Engineering Program (FEP) have developed effective, efficient, and collaborative methods that make the most of team teaching. This workshop will be team taught by members of the FEP teaching team. Participants will gain valuable and practical methods for implementing and improving team taught courses. Topics of the workshop will include • Team teaching philosophies, pedagogy, and curriculum design o Building team teaching into courses • Teaching team structure and management o Sharing and managing the load • Implementing team teaching methods o Nuts and bolts of team teaching • Content delivery in Learning Management Systems (LMS) o Using “shells” to standardize and share materials • Using LMS assessment tools including question pools and rubrics o Making fair and uniform assessments across multiple sections • Project development in team taught courses o Collaborating to create interesting and challenging projects in PBL courses • Support to new members in the teaching team o Adding new faculty, adjuncts, and GTA’s to the team
Hamrick, T. R., & Almasri, A., & Hulcher, C., & Zhang, X., & Oppong-Anane, A. B. (2023, July), Tips for Top Tier Team Teaching Paper presented at 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. 10.18260/1-2--44849
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