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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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2006-1771: PROBLEM, PROJECT, INQUIRY, OR SUBJECT-BASEDPEDAGOGIES: WHAT TO DO?David Malicky, University of San Diego David M. Malicky is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of San Diego. His teaching interests are in solid mechanics, design, and manufacturing. His research interests include biomechanics and engineering education. He received a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas.Ming Huang, University of San Diego Ming Z. Huang is currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of San Diego, San Diego, California

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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2006-710: A MODEL FOR PREPARING THE NSF CAREER PROPOSALGarrick Louis, University of Virginia Garrick E. Louis is an Associate Professor of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. He also holds a courtesy appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interests include engineering for developing communities and sustainable infrastructure, particularly the development of policies and programs to assure sustained access to infrastructure-related services in the face of routine, and low-probability high-consequence interruptions from natural and deliberate man-made sources. Garrick’s projects include community-based water, sanitation and

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

multidisciplinary projects. Page 11.1086.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Research in the Undergraduate EnvironmentAbstractThe benefits of research experiences for undergraduates are significant. For many faculty, thesewere the experiences that convinced us to pursue further education and a career in academia.However, performing research at an undergraduate institution carries with it certain challenges.In traditional research institutions, doctoral students perform most of the research activities, ledby the faculty. These students have completed at least their undergraduate courses and can beexpected to remain

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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years both grading for the Materials Science course and teaching laboratories.Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology MELISSA A. ZACZEK is a student at Rochester Institute of Technology completing her BS and ME in Mechanical Engineering. Her Masters focus is project management with a concentration in business. Her undergraduate focus is bioengineering with an American Politics minor. Page 11.1160.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Student-Faculty PartnershipsAbstractOne of the biggest challenges facing new engineering faculty members is finding good

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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New Engineering Educators

options. Projects, commonly used in upper-level electivesand senior design courses, permit students to explore a particular topic in great depth. Grading aproject may involve reviewing deliverables such as proposals, design documents, posters,presentations, and final reports. Since team work is an important part of projects, assessmentmay also include factors such as individual effort, team communication, and projectmanagement.In compiling the list of tips presented in this paper, we not only relied on our experience as newfaculty members but also received advice from more experienced faculty. We interviewedseveral faculty members from different disciplines of engineering and computer science on howthey graded various course activities. Our first

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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third year it became apparent that six ofthese skills were the most significant and as a result have been classified as the Six Ps. Theseskills include: planning, project management, problem solving, presentation, patience, andpersistence. Each of these skills is noteworthy in their own right, but collectively they areessential for success as an engineering educator.Planning. Perhaps planning is the first and most critical of the skills. It is the initial phase ofpreparation for any project. Most jobs and assignments can be considered as a project that needsto be managed including teaching a course, running a committee, or preparing curriculum.Planning involves every aspect of developing a project including a schedule or timetable right upuntil

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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Society for Engineering Education, 2006Journal Club: A Forum to Encourage Graduate and Undergraduate Research Students to Critically Review the LiteratureAbstractThis contribution outlines a strategy that the author has used to counteract literature lethargy andtrain beginning researchers how to efficiently learn from and critique articles. Journal Club is aweekly meeting with all members of the research group where a research article related to eachstudent’s project is discussed by the entire research group. Due to multiple projects in the lab,each researcher contributes to discussions of articles tangentially related to their own research;this is a long-term benefit because it increases the breadth of each individual’s knowledge

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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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New Engineering Educators

Supervision” which included thecategories of Post-doctoral Research Programs, Supervision of Doctoral Programs,Supervision of Masters Research Programs, Undergraduate Student Supervision (toinclude the titles of research projects and dates) and Other Research Supervision. Only inthe second sub-area entitled “Teacher Evaluation” were student and peer teachingevaluations listed. In a similar examination of forms for STCs, only student and peerteaching evaluations were included under the Teaching category. Clearly, whatconstitutes ‘Teaching’ may differ between these two types of institutions. As noted in theTenure and Promotion Guidelines of one LRU: “The School believes strongly that teaching and research is a truly integrated process

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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described above. Students invariably have a final projectin many courses where they are assigned a design problem. In their senior year, they oftenhave a senior project which entails designing and building a unique prototype. The studentsare required to submit a proposal documenting the requirements, the proposed design, thematerials, the schedule, and the test plan. After review by the professor, the proposal mayrequire changes. Further modifications may be required at any point as unforeseen eventsoccur. In the end the prototype is expected to pass all tests and demonstrate on delivery thatit meets the original requirements. Many of these same steps occur on the job whengraduate engineers pursue engineering projects, so the project course is

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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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. Page 11.388.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Decision-making: What does it have to do with my teaching?AbstractEngineering education is a complex design activity where educators create a range of teachingartifacts including course curricula, classroom policies, lecture notes, exams, and timelines forstudent group projects. In order to design such artifacts, engineering faculty must make a seriesof teaching decisions, each of which can impact their students’ learning and engagement withcourse activities. Given the importance of decision-making in engineering education, we hopethat by beginning to characterize engineering educator decisions, educators will gain a greaterawareness of decision-making by recognizing

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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learningprocesses and Christy et al.9 deigned portfolios to identity the motivation for choosing Page 11.1000.6engineering. These purposes show that a particular portfolio program could have multiplepurposes depending on the educators’ focuses and interests.ContentGiven the different purposes for using portfolios, it is unsurprising that the portfolios alsocontained different types of content. The materials in the portfolios included diverse artifactsthat were created by students, such as students’ exams, assignments, project reports, andhomework. In addition to those artifacts, students were often required to write an entry ornarrative for each artifact or

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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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federal funding agency. Many of these seed grant programs also provide you with thereviews so you can improve your ideas (and your chance of getting a larger grant).Although the dollar amounts are low, if you can show on the “Current and PendingSupport” some funding within Topic Y, and reference your funded project (withassociated website) in your new proposal, you now have a better chance of gettingfunding at a much higher level.Many national program solicitations (such as the NSF CAREER award program) receiveproposals from many faculty at your university. The people that work in the office thatformally submits these proposals on behalf of the university usually work very hard. Letthem know well ahead of time that you are writing a proposal 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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the results of this process.Results of January 2006 evaluationIn any product design project, it is imperative to receive quality feedback from the targetaudience. Such feedback can help guide the product refinement process, leading to resources thatare valuable and effective to their users. In December 2005, we completed a working prototypeof five story pages, a home page, a story index page, a keyword index page, and an “About Us”page. To gain needed feedback, we invited eight engineering education experts—fourinstructional consultants and four researchers in the engineering education discipline—to reviewthe site and offer feedback on three areas: (1) the general concept for the site, specifically the useof stories; (2) the credibility and

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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are required of all students in the college including computer usage, written communication,oral communication, analytical skills applied to content area, project management, continuedlearning, and team functioning. The items in Section 3 relate to competencies within specificprograms. All items were either refined from previous baseline items or newly developed by theACI with input from program faculty. Early administrations of the survey indicated that a Likertscale did not produce adequate discrimination in response, so the committee researched otherscales. The response scale used was adapted from a classroom checklist proposed by Angelo andCross.13 The students rate their acquisition of a stated skill or concept area as A Advanced levelof

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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

in the project as investigators. They could be paid with money out of the project (if it is externally funded). They could also be paid with a grade in a special topics or independent study type class.• Have some of your research be educational, where the research project is the creation, teaching, and assessment of the class.The first two authors followed this up in 2003 with a paper that dealt with the broader issue ofhow to balance personal and professional life1. A number of strategies were developed. As withany effort to balance the many activities in life, it is important to differentiate between needs andwants. Of course, this will vary from person to person. The key is to understand thisdifferentiation and to ensure that

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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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exercise not only related to the various conceptscovered in the course through experimentation, but also allowed the students toexperience the difference between simulation software and a hands-on experiment.Course ProjectsEach team was required to complete a course project by the end of the semester. Theprojects included a presentation as well as a written report. In order to assess thepresentations and the projects, the CI developed (with input and approval of the studentsand the FM) an assessment form that was to be used by the CI, the FM and the students.Students were given a deadline (two days after the presentation date) to make somechanges to their report to address the questions raised by their fellow-students and theinstructors.CI

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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observations extrapolated from the findings of on a two-yearresearch project that the author feels have general applicability. The author suggests thatalthough faculty members see many variables dealing with student behavior as unalterable, mostare probably not. Common behaviors that are accepted include: coming to class unprepared, notdoing the reading, not engaging in classroom discussion, not answering questions, turning insloppy work, and turning in late assignments, to name but a few. The author does not accept thepremise that such behaviors are unalterable. In the case of the specific research project theauthor conducted, the problem observed was that students seemed to regard their homeworksubmissions as simply a product to be handed in, and

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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counseling session consisted of the authortalking with the student about the exercise and inquiring about any misunderstanding of theexpectations. The author asked how the student might improve their grade. Most studentssuggested more effort on their part to add to the discussions. The author and the student thenagreed upon a mutually acceptable course of action for achieving an “A”. The author made aneffort to avoid dictating a solution and relied on the students to come up with an acceptable planto improve their grade. Most students were receptive to the feedback and appreciated theauthor’s efforts to let them know where they stood and what they needed to do go get an “A”. Atthis point the author did not believe this project would have positive

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

directly result in your promotion and tenure, butthe contacts you make during committee meetings may. These committees provide youwith great opportunities for networking. The contacts you make may one day be yourexternal reviewers for your dossier or future collaborators on a research project. Innational organizations, committee membership takes times, so attend conferences early inyour academic career and begin forming those professional relationships early.External ReviewsUniversities typically require external review of your tenure dossier and the facultymember must provide a list of potential external reviewers to your department head. Theexternal reviewers evaluate your tenure dossier and in turn write a recommendation letterto your

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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

2006-2066: SHORT AND LONG-TERM INFLUENCE OF EXCELLENTINSTRUCTORS ON GRADUATES IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: A CASESTUDYMaher Murad, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown Maher Murad is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Dr. Murad was a visiting assistant professor at Bucknell University and had overseas teaching experience. He also worked as a highway project manager for Acer Freeman Fox International (Hyder Consulting). Dr. Murad received M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toledo in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of Toledo in 1994. His teaching interests include transportation, highway design