Conference Session

Student Paper Presentation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Students Constituent Committee

are an effective way to engage these students, explainthe mission of ASEE, and offer them the opportunity to help organize the new ASEE studentchapter.One approach is to identify certain courses that are likely to draw education-minded engineeringstudents. For example, the University of Illinois offers a College Teaching course that attracts anumber of engineering graduate students who are excited about engineering education. Thesearch for Illinois ASEE student chapter officers included contacting current and pastengineering students in the College Teaching class.A second approach is to identify other university programs or groups that attract the involvementof students with a strong interest in transforming and improving engineering

Conference Session

Student Paper Presentation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Melvin, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Students Constituent Committee

, and start assignments early; however I found this was only half of whatI needed to survive, I also needed to rely on my classmates for aid and advice. As engineers,teamwork is instilled in us at an early stage. From homework groups in sophomore classes, tolab groups, and finally to the senior design team, I have always found four minds are better thanone, logic that transcended into my graduate classes. My first year class was comprised of 24people of different backgrounds, strengths, and weaknesses. Faced with a common adversary,we stuck together and helped each other, from discussions about theory to aid on homeworkassignments, to advice on how and to handle difficult undergraduate students in the classes weTA'd. What I recommend to all