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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Chesney, University of Michigan

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New Engineering Educators

ExamplesBy way of illustration, the author lists four examples of using story-telling in the classroom. Ineach example, the discussion is partitioned as follows: The Topic describes the environmentand objectives of the story, and also describes how the material might be communicated withoutusing stories; The Story is a re-telling of the actual story; and The Lesson discusses theknowledge that is gained by the students as a result of teaching the material using story-telling. Page 11.273.2Example 1: Story-telling to illustrate important pointsThe Topic. I do group work in many of my classes. Many times, the students are accustomed toworking in a

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

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shown in Table 1below: Page 11.256.2 Item Amount Total Salary (close to national average) $65,000 x 6 years = $390,000 Fringe benefits $20,000 x 6 years = $120,000 Startup Package ~ 1 year of salary $65,000 $65,000 Totals $575,000Table 1. Total financial investment of Average State U. for a new engineering facultyhire.For a higher tier institution, the startup package can be above $200,000. Once you arepromoted and tenured, the institution is making an even bigger commitment: at leastthirty years of salary

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Genik, Wayne State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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laboratory sections as teachingassistants. In this situation the faculty member’s role goes from teaching the students to teachingthe teaching assistants. Weekly meetings for the instructional staff are essential. It is suggestedthat the faculty member puts together and distributes a formal agenda as shown in Figure 1. Theauthors also suggest that the faculty member periodically visits the lab sessions, making a pointto visit each section at least once every two weeks. This allows the faculty member to observethe teaching assistants in action and provides an opportunity to evaluate the TA, often requiredby the graduate teaching assistant unions now prevalent on campus.Report Requirements and GradingThere are several ways to have the students report

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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New Engineering Educators

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Murray Teitell, DeVry University-Long Beach

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2006-894: ENGINEERING PROBLEM-SOLVING USING PATTERN MATCHING:A NEW COURSEMurray Teitell, DeVry University-Long Beach Page 11.572.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engineering Problem-Solving Using Pattern Matching: A New CourseMethods of Problem-solving There are a number of ways to solve a problem. 1, 2 Engineers, however, tend to learnand use a limited set of structured methods.3 The most popular is the deductive method 2:analyze the problem and apply a series of generalized steps that have worked before onsimilar problems leading to a solution. Conversely, using the inductive method (reverseengineering), the solution is assumed and the engineer

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth McDonald, U.S. Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

is not an endeavor taken lightly. [1, 2, 3, 4] Class discussion providesa number of benefits for the teacher and student. The teacher and student develop a closerrelationship with each other as the teacher-student hierarchical relationship is relaxed. [5] Theteacher is viewed as more open and approachable. It places the teacher in a more egalitarian ordemocratic light during discussion exchanges. [6, 7] Additionally, a teacher that permitsclassroom discussion implies recognition of students as active versus passive participants in theirlearning process and supports the notion that students learn more when they are activelyengaged.Classroom discussion is useful as a way of thinking and learning. [8] Asking or seeking studentinput verbally

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saravanan Swaminathan, Tennessee Technological University; Barath Baburao, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

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through the stimulation and motivationof students [1]. Accordingly, it makes sense that those selected to teach undergraduatestudents should be trained properly for this function. Unfortunately, while mostcandidates applying for openings have little teaching experience, the institutions that arelooking to hire prospective faculty expect their candidates to be “teaching ready”[2].Adding to this problem is that the teaching experience that graduate students receive isquite different across the nation. For example, some graduate students are just used tograde homework and examinations, while others run homework recitations and a thirdgroup handles the laboratory. All of these experiences are quite unique and, at somelevel, a newly-hired faculty

Conference Session

Faculty Development Toolkit

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

were concerned, helpful,caring, encouraging, challenging, available, fair, friendly, accessible, demanding, approachable,and patient. Lowman created the two-dimensional matrix shown in Figure 1 and divided thecategories of intellectual excitement and interpersonal rapport into high, medium and lowcapabilities. This two-dimensional model then describes nine categories of teachers based ontheir relative strengths in these two areas. Teachers can range from those who are inadequate(low in both categories) to complete exemplar (high in both categories) with every possible Page 11.905.2combination in between. The numbers indicate a priority of

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Larson, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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grading process more efficient while remaining constructive andfair to the students.1. IntroductionGrading is an important responsibility for all educators. Assessing the work of a student is a keycomponent of the learning process. If done effectively, students can gauge how well theycomprehend the course material, learn from past mistakes, and be motivated to learn even more.The main purpose of grading is to assess the student with respect to the course objectives andoutcomes. This process can be divided into two tasks. The first task is to design course activitiesin a manner such that students can meet the course objectives and the instructor is able to assessthe students’ progress. The second task is to accurately measure the students

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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June Marshall, St. Joseph's College; John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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as well as experienced faculty become more effective teachers.Based on a review of the literature, the following excerpts have been divided into twomajor sections. The focus of the first section is the learning process, and the secondsection discusses innovative methods of teaching.Topics included in the “Learning” section include: 1) Focusing on Learning and NotTeaching; 2) Problem Based Learning; 3) Facilitating Group Learning (PromotingAccountability, Linking Assignments, and Stimulating the Idea Exchange); 4) ChangingLearning Behavior Outside the Classroom; and 5) Preparing to Teach. Topics included inthe “Teaching” section include: 1) The Seven “Good Practices” for Teachers; 2)Teaching with Hospitality; 3) The Importance of Listening

Conference Session

Faculty Development Toolkit

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University

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New Engineering Educators

. Page 11.925.9While we recommend new professors form their own peer mentoring group, they need torecognize that this will probably not be enough on its own.Just working very long hours at the expense of family and personal life is not productive in thelong run. The new professor will eventually burn out, and may have significant personal issuesthat they need to deal with. Taking some time off to relax and be renewed is important.Recommendations for implementing an effective mentoring programWe have the following recommendations.1. An effective new faculty orientation program is very important. However, orientation alone is not mentoring. If a university wishes to mentor its new faculty much more will be required.2. While the direct

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Garrick Louis, University of Virginia

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New Engineering Educators

Water Works Association Small Systems Division, and the 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Page 11.70.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Model for Preparing the NSF Career ProposalIntroductionA CAREER award from the National Science Foundation can help to advance the careersof Assistant Professors in Engineering.1 The CAREER program is the descendent ofseveral earlier NSF programs to enable junior faculty to perform quality research andeducation. These programs began in 1983 with the Presidential Young Investigators(PYI) award, which was replaced by

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Devine, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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New Engineering Educators

on the m. In a course during the Spring 2004 term, only one student suppliedany comment on the written comment portion of the evaluation. It seems that after fillingin 12 little circles with a number two pencil just to identify the course number andinstructor for the optical scan device, students often have little interest in considering thequestion and responding appropriately.Development of SPIE FORMThe SPIE FORM has three main purposes. These three purposes are 1) to gather feedbackfrom the students in order to improve both the course and the instructor’s teaching, 2) toprovide students with a better means of having their say at the end of the semester aboutboth the course and the instructor and 3) to provide an additional evaluation of

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

the students,but it can be an important part of personal professional development for all parties involved.2Student Viewpoint #1: Melissa ZaczekMy work with Dr. DeBartolo first began with a suggestion to change one of the MaterialsScience Labs following a recent co-op. On my co-op, I led a project to develop a new outercover for a baby diaper. This project involved working with non-wovens, a primarily polymerbased material with which I had no previous experience. Although my materials classes helpedvery much in acquiring and performing my job, I didn’t feel these classes provided students withenough exposure to nonmetals. The main polymer lab performed in Materials Science Labinvolved creating silly putty by cross-linking Elmer’s glue. As a

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Hodges, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-Michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute

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; MSME 1983, Montana State University; Ph.D. ME 1990, University of Virginia. Research areas: machine design, solid mechanics, and engineering education. Page 11.1244.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Tenure and Promotion Requirements: Large Universities vs. Small CollegesAlthough tenure and promotion requirements are typically listed prominently in allfaculty handbooks, the mere “checking off” of those listed requirements is rarelysufficient for the awarding of tenure or promotion at most institutions. Rather, the keys tobeing awarded tenure or promotion are 1) an understanding of

Conference Session

Faculty Development Toolkit

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

characteristics that the best instructors/teachers/professors possess.The Literature:Skilling [1] begins his book: Do you teach? Views on college teaching, with the “ElevenCommandment for Teachers.” He states that, “The good teacher likes his students and enjoyshelping them, understanding their thoughts and feelings. You [the good teacher] should: 1. Remember the students whom you teach, for they alone are a measure of your success. 2. Forget yourself, for your own excellence is good only as it helps your students. 3. Consider the purpose of your teaching, and show the student a goal as far ahead as you both can see. 4. Accept him as he is and improve him as you can; the student is guided by intellect but driven by emotion – to

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

treat you as though you are whatyou are capable of becoming, I help you become that (Goethe).[1] This seems to imply apowerful charge to those of us dedicated to teaching. How often do we hear “that is just the waystudents are today”? Upon returning to teaching in the fall of 2003, after a six-year break, theauthor began to question whether he could change this behavior, or did he really have to acceptit? Page 11.319.2The author noted two disturbing trends upon his return to the classroom. First was that hisstudents were not exercising the level of care with their assignments that should be required ofyoung engineers. The author taught seniors

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Taher Abu-Lebdeh, North Carolina A&T State University; Messiha Saad, North Carolina A&T State University; Steven OneYear, North Carolina A&T State University

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Chap 10 Pre-Quiz Assignments January 11, 2006 Page 11.1011.4 Figure 1. Sample Screen from Blackboard.Attendance: In the present study, the results of several engineering courses will be used to investigatethe effect of both attendance and note-taking on the student’s academic achievement. Thesecourses are (1) statics for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineering students (CAAE331,and MEEN335) as one section, and (2) statics and strength of materials for electrical andindustrial engineering students (MEEN313) and finally (3) Materials Science for mechanical

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University; Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University

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New Engineering Educators

general is the responsibilityof the student. Typically information is shared to the advisor or team during weekly meetings,through progress reports and finally in the form of publications. This model is based on theassumption that one person or a close-knit research team performs the work over a long time.In an undergraduate environment the typical student works on a research project for a shorterperiod of time. A master’s student may work on a project for 1 or 2 years. An undergraduatestudent may work on a project for 1 year or as little as one term. A long-term project mayincorporate the work of many students each working a short time on a piece of the project. Inthis environment the accumulated information process requires a different model

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Powe, Mississippi State University; Jane Moorhead, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators

writing intotheir classrooms. They rarely debate the need to improve engineering students’ written (andoral) communication skills, the benefits of which are well documented. Perhaps the mostimportant skill writing fosters in students is critical thinking. As Wheeler and McDonald state,“Writing, like teaching, forces one to think—hard!”1 However, new educators—both thosetaking over classes already firmly established by more senior faculty and those creating newclasses—struggle to incorporate writing into their classrooms and, even more challenging, tograde that writing effectively. Pappas and Hendricks state, “The problem is not that engineeringfaculty members fail to value good writing and speaking; the problem is that they are not trainedto

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Findlay Edwards, University of Arkansas; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas

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New Engineering Educators

paperprovides the young faculty member guidance in obtaining that evidence and compiling itinto their tenure dossier.BackgroundYour tenure dossier summarizes the first six years of your academic career and is dividedinto three sections; teaching, research, and service. Tenure dossiers can differ dependingon your type of institution. Hoback and Dutta surveyed civil engineering chairs in 1999and their findings showed that research activities are more highly valued as the number ofdoctoral students increase.1 At baccalaureate universities, tenure dossiers focus on Page 11.1021.2teaching and service. At research (or doctoral) universities, the emphasis is on

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Malicky, University of San Diego; Ming Huang, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

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New Engineering Educators

resources, investments that might not pay off if thepedagogy is not well-matched to the instructor’s particular course and environment. Thus thedecision to try a new pedagogy is characterized by both benefits and risks. Both of these maycovary with many situation-specific factors such as the instructor’s tenure status and students’prior expectations. One thesis of this paper is that traditional and non-traditional pedagogiesboth have advantages and disadvantages. To help the educator address these difficult decisions,this paper aims to 1) provide an overview of the major pedagogical options for engineeringcourses and 2) delineate the major situational factors that influence the risks, benefits, andimplementation strategies of these

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Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

grant funding, attracting andgraduating graduate students, and producing sufficient quantity and quality of published journalarticles. The pressure to perform and stress associated with such positions are significant andrequire individuals to often make substantial sacrifices in other areas of their lives during thetenure process.1-2Tenure-Track Position in Engineering at a Teaching UniversityThese faculty positions offer job security on achieving tenure, professional prestige, and anintellectually stimulating environment through interaction with primarily undergraduate students,research and professional interactions. The teaching load is often higher than at researchuniversities but usually has some support from graduate students or upper

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

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include portfolios in the engineeringcurriculum, it is difficult for new educators to gain a clear understanding of what they can learnfrom the previous studies and thus to decide how to design a portfolio assignment for theirclassrooms. Practical questions, such as “If I want to use portfolio for the purpose A, how shouldI design my portfolio curriculum”, can hardly be answered. The major reasons for the difficultiesin effectively using student portfolios could be that (1) portfolios were defined differently, (2)the reasons for using portfolios were different; (3) the components that were included in theportfolios were different; and (4) the setting and instruction on creating portfolios were different.These variations in designing portfolios

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators

students, and bolster thequality of research conducted in the lab group. Involving undergraduate students in literaturecritiques is not a new concept and has been found to be beneficial [1]. The involvement ofundergraduates in a literature review seminar has the added benefit of encouraging these studentsto pursue graduate studies in engineering [2]. Advice on conducting graduate seminars isavailable in “The New Professor’s Handbook” where the authors assert that, “a seminar programcan go a long way in helping graduate students acquire the knowledge and skills to becomeindependent researchers” [3]. More specifically, research skills that can be obtained via aseminar program include: • “identify important research questions and specific

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Charity Tsuruda, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

resources for new engineering educators interested in creating teachingportfolios, we explored what help and support these various teaching portfolio initiativesprovided for their clients. This paper will first describe the two most common types of teachingportfolios in terms of their purpose, audience, and what elements they might contain. Next, wewill present four reasons why engineering faculty, post-docs, and graduate students might wantto build teaching portfolios. We will then describe the methods we used to select the institutionsin our study sample and obtain information about their teaching portfolio initiatives. Finally, wewill present our findings and summarize them in Table 1, which may be found in the Appendix.BackgroundWhile it is

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Faculty Development Toolkit

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maher Murad, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

O gr gr r de g in un ur D g in ur DFigure 1: Period when ET faculty had excellent instructors.The second question asked the ET faculty “What was your academic level when you had thatexcellent instructor?” Figure 2 indicates that an excellent instructor can leave a long and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Roxane Neal, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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will also impart the results of our first round of expert evaluation and the relationshipbetween these experts’ feedback and our design principles. We offer the details of our websiteand the results of our evaluation in order to further explicate the design principles; as a result wewill not focus on possible alternative web site designs. The following section describes theempirical research from these design principles were derived. Page 11.533.2Where these principles came fromThis research is based on an NSF-sponsored study (EEP-0211774) of engineering faculty at aResearch Extensive institution which had two explicit goals: (1) the

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Barbara Stewart, University of Houston

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New Engineering Educators

recent USgovernment appointment of a higher education commission charged with examining whetherstandardized testing should be expanded into universities and colleges to prove that students arelearning and to facilitate comparisons of universities with respect to the quality of education theydeliver.1 While individual instructors have always had to be concerned with student assessmentand processes for improving instruction, the scope of both assessment and instructor involvementwith assessment has expanded. Instructors typically review not only students enrolled in theircourses but also the courses they teach. However, large-scale assessments (e.g., programeffectiveness) are more often the realm of administrators. Increasingly, instructors are

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Emma Rose, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

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findings. Figures 1 through 3 also illustrate the relativefrequency of the coded decision points reported under each of these dimensions. These graphswill better enable us to understand the examples of teaching-related decisions and decision pointsthat were illuminated by our engineering educators.Magnitude of the teaching decisions. The Magnitude dimension addressed the participants’perceptions of the number of students that appeared to be affected by a particular decision. Therewere six coding categories connected with this first dimension: (1) individual student, (2) singleclass, (3) all current and future students of a single course, (4) all the students I teach, (5) allstudents in my department, and (6) all students. These categories were