Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific Univ; Donald Peter

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

motivatedto do the hard work of solving the quantity and variety of problems needed for learning, withoutdemoralizing penalties for making mistakes while learning. Further, many professors prefer touse homework scores as a significant portion of the final course grade because it is difficult totest students on such a wide variety of problems.To achieve these goals, several homework options exist for the professor: traditional homework,homework that is graded online 3, 4, and homework that is assigned but not graded. Each of thevarious approaches addresses the homework balancing act differently, and each has itsdrawbacks (Table 1). An alternative approach described in this paper incorporates many of thebenefits of these various methods in a manner

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul Azad, Northern Illinois University; Osman Tokhi, University of Sheffield, UK.

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Engineering Educators Division), June 24-27, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Course implementation: Unlike in the US, a course is owned by the institute not byan individual faculty. Each course should have a standardized course outline withprescribed assessment methods and mark distribution for each method. There is no needfor an individual faculty to develop their own course outline/syllabus. Apart from certaincourses (such as Senior Design Project), all courses should have a standard mid-term andcourse final (comprehensive). All the course finals have to be administrated on pre-determined dates, usually as a part of mass examinations, and these examinations carryaround 40% of the total marks for a course. The mid-term and