Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fleisig, McMaster University; Harry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

-value and moreinnovative designs than his or her peers.This has meant designing a sustainable program with these stakeholders in mind: leadingand innovative local employers, engineering graduates, and academia. Each of thesestakeholders requires a specially attenuated message aimed at their particular perspectiveas to the role of leading design engineers. In particular, to involve academia in this processmeans that they too must be able to evaluate not only the technical competence of designfrom within a positivist1 paradigm but also the creative aspects of the work.Herein lies the difficulty. Engineering faculties, such as ours in a research-intensiveinstitution, has no experience or understanding of creative aspects of engineering designand

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

responsibility of the team leader to insure that all team membersunderstand the goals for the project and their contribution to achieving them. Motivating others to workwith you is crucial to the success of a project. It is a critical skill that the effective engineer-leader mustdevelop.Counseling In order to properly motivate members of team, the team leader must be mindful thatcounseling of individual team members may be required. Engineers are highly trained and self-motivated.However, a team member may not clearly understand his or her role on the project. The effectiveengineer-leader must insure that each member of the team is aware of the project goals and that success isdependent on the important contributions of each team member

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

. 92, pp. 329-336, 2003.6. McNeill, N.J., M.F. Cox, H.A. Diefes-Dux, T. Medley, and J. Hayes, "Development of an Instrument to Collect Pedagogical Data from Graduate Teaching Assistants within Engineering Laboratories," in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.7. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999. Page 15.375.8

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Brooks, Temple University; Tony Singh, Temple University; Hossein Rostami, Philadelphia University; Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Amithraj Amavasai, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

AC 2010-264: INNOVATIVE TRAINING STRATEGY (ITS) FOR TEACHINGASSISTANTSRobert Brooks, Temple UniversityTony Singh, Temple UniversityHossein Rostami, Philadelphia UniversityFernando Tovia, Philadelphia UniversityAmithraj Amavasai, Temple University Page 15.744.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Innovative Training Strategy (ITS) For TAsAbstractThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University offers anEnvironment Course to approximately 400 students (20 sections) every semester. An experimentwas carried out during Fall 2007. During that semester, a control group of 8 teaching assistants(TAs) were given a manual on the 3