opportunity for me to deepen these relationships and gain confidence andaccountability in my work. Since the workshop, I have begun swapping articles and proposalswith several other participants of PEER to give and receive feedback on drafts. I have received Page 24.1237.15candid and honest feedback that has been invaluable. I have also been held accountable to meetmy internal paper deadlines so that I keep writing even when other responsibilities are clamoringfor my attention. I now have twice as many papers in submission than I have ever had prior toPEER. I attribute this level of feedback and accountability to the quality of relationships that
related to theirprojects. They must submit a summary of the discussion. They are also obligated to perform atleast 15 hours per semester professional volunteer work for the community. Another requirementis the submission of personal improvement/evaluation assignment; the IRE students must write areflection on their strengths and weaknesses with the help of other team members and thefaculty.Outcome G: an ability to communicate effectivelyThe IRE students must present their projects at least four times per semester; each of theirpresentations are evaluated and given proper feedback from both peers and faculty. Additionally,they must write and submit a number of technical reports and documents regarding their projects.All these documents are
. ≠ Left to discretion of the committees. ≠ OES-I publications are discounted and treated separately from technical publications. ≠ Peer review has no special context with respect to OES-I. It is simply applied across the board with respect to refereed publications and conference proceedings. It is a yes or no tick box. ≠ Peer Review in our institution is only by senior faculty at other institutions of published work. ≠ Peer review means anonymous review of your work by peers, with potential rejection by your peers. I would discourage my peers from writing papers focusing on outreach activities, if it means not writing a paper on their primary subject. ≠ Peer review means having someone who has
standardof teaching has changed dramatically. In this paper, we present some of the tools that have madea positive difference: • New Faculty Forums, where each new instructor was given the basic tools of solid pedagogy in an active learning environment • Workshops on Active Learning, Assessment, and Writing Well • Formation of a Teaching Enhancement Committee • Classroom Assessment Techniques, Midterm Course Evaluations, and Teaching Triads • Development of a Teaching Statement • Recent Changes to the Annual Report Form that include a substantial section on Scholarly Engagement with Teaching The three co-authors have been involved with all of these initiatives
(Fall & Spring term) Computing and information technology Writing and communication Summer term Ethics in science and technology Entrepreneurship and management of innovation Start of the senior thesis Second year Information systems technology track: Telecommunication networking (Fall & Spring term) Information and network security Relational databases System integration Alternative energy Biotechnology
: ≠ Orientation workshops for instructors which highlight the background educational research, student survey data from previous semesters, and provide activities to practice writing open-ended higher-order thinking questions. These workshops built a community of users and provided more information to faculty about best practices in scientific teaching. ≠ Meetings between the instructors and the programmer to learn how the instructors would tag responses. Our team began with the idea of being able to quickly sort responses and provide feedback. After talking to faculty we found that there are many methods of sorting responses and different perspectives on the types of feedback that should be sent to
archived so faculty can watch them at their convenience. One such project we have Page 25.1139.3found useful is the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center5, run by the MaricopaCommunity Colleges in Arizona. A clearinghouse for many of the on-site and online events ishosted online by the South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, atTeachingTechnicians.org6. This site is worth checking on a regular basis to keep abreast of newNSF funded opportunities.Another benefit of joining listservs such as the ETD listserv, in addition to interacting with peers,is to get ideas for your own projects. After responding to a survey
Professor NegotiationsCase 1: Starting offer at a top-ten engineering research programDr. Taylor Smith, having completed a two-year international post-doctoral experience at a majorinternational laboratory – and having proved worth by already having several externally fundedgrants in addition to numerous peer-reviewed papers, applied for two top-ten engineeringprogram assistant professor positions. The candidate was selected for campus interviews at eachplace, and the interview experiences consisted of the typical two full days of interview, includingbreakfasts, lunches and dinners, with various combinations of faculty, graduate students and staff– rigorous interviews designed to vet future colleagues for their ability to take on the research
and modeling.Dr. Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University Dr. Shokouhian is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University. His research focuses on performance-based design of structures made of high performance steel and concrete using theoretical, numerical and experimental methods. He has participated in many research projects and has published several peer-reviewed journal papers since 2004.Dr. Kathy Ann Gullie, Gullie Consultant Services LLC Gullie Consultants Services LLC, Owner, Dr. Kathy A. Gullie Ph.D. Dr. Kathy Gullie and her associates at Gullie Consultant Services LLC have been in education, assessment, program development and evalu- ation in New York State for
: Methods for Teaching Technical Presentations to Practicing Engineers in an Online EnvironmentAbstractWe have been teaching technical and engineering communication in a graduate-levelonline course for over eight years. As part of that work, we advise the students (all arepracticing professional engineers) about writing and presenting alike. In fact, thepresentations element of the course is unilaterally the most lauded element of that course.However, again and again, instructors interested in teaching presentations online ask us,“How can you do that? How can presentations be taught online?” Our answer is both acomplicated one and a simple one: you must have the right setup, the right infrastructure,and a thorough understanding of
being earned for scoring 60points or less on a 100 point scale). Within educational environments, rubrics are designed toevaluate a student’s process or product [9] and have three key features: (1) evaluation criteria, (2)quality definitions, and (3) a scoring strategy [7]. A rubric that is co-created with students, used toevaluate peer, self, and teaching assessments, and then used to assign grades is an instructionalrubric, and a rubric solely used by an instructor to assign grades is a scoring rubric [6]. Since thegoal of this paper is to describe rubric development in industry environments, where instructionis not the goal during the hiring process, scoring rubrics will be the focus of this paper.Different Types of Rubrics Rubrics
wasformative, conversations centered on how to use the information for improvement. Formativefeedback from instructional coaching provided a roadmap for improvement, and helped move theconversation away from final, summative evaluations of teaching ability that are commonly apart of performance reviews. Feedback was specific and timely.Professor K (see Table 3) asked, “Could you write a letter for my P and T case about my partici-pation in the grant and observations?” K’s unit head was very receptive to including such a letterin the promotion dossier. Observations made by a trained professional using the RTOP instru-ment are a reliable supplement and possible replacement for peer observations that are often usedto support the promotion and tenure
. Tristan T. Utschig is Assistant Director for the Scholarship and Assessment of Teaching and Learning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Formerly, he was Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho where he developed and directed the pre-engineering program at the college. Dr. Utschig’s research in engineering education has focused on assessment at various levels from the classroom to program and institutional assessment. He has regularly published and presented work on a variety of topics including teaching diversity, using technology in the classroom, faculty development in instructional design, assessment instruments and methodologies, and peer
allworking professionals, most with considerable to extensive project management experience.These, like nearly all adult learners, want education that is authentic, relevant, immediatelyapplicable to their work, and substantiated by experiences of their own or credible peers [10],[11], [12], [13]. As the authors have taught this course over the past eight years, a shared,consistent goal and commitment to our students has been to make the course “authentically real,”speaking directly to the experiences and learning goals of these project-experiencedprofessionals. Following is a brief description of a few key ways in which our teaching ofeffective, real project management has evolved.An Emphasis on Living Order“Living order” is a concept that the
pursuing one. To serve this population, and enable theirrich practical work experiences to enhance the education of our traditional on-campus students,we are implementing the following scenario.Local technical workers stay in their offices at lunch-time sitting at computers armed withheadphones and microphones to attend, and participate in, an electric circuits class via aninternet connection. Other students, on the university campus, sit in a traditional classroomsetting augmented with room microphones. Both groups of students view the electronicwhiteboard that is generated by the instructor writing on a Tablet PC projected to the campusclassroom through an LCD projector and to the off-campus students through Adobe Connectsoftware. Two students
organizations. He is a senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing
the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, introducing entrepreneurship into engineering, international service and engineering in K- 12.Dr. John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University. He received his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and his BS in computer science and engineering from The University of Toledo. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, first-year engineering instruction, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. John
identity; her research focuses specifically on creativity, interdisciplinarity, and the role of emotion in cognition. She created the synthesis and design studios in the environmental engineering program and is currently developing the professional and design spines for the upcoming mechanical engineering program. She is also interested in faculty development and recently co-organized the NSF-sponsored PEER workshop for tenure-track engineering education research faculty. Page 23.1145.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Teaching Journeys of Engineering Faculty
course design. In phase II, participants are engaged in a 4-weekasynchronous online course that begins to address backward design as it relates to eachindividual’s course and allows participants to experience online learning from a studentperspective. Participants work with various instructional materials to gain foundationalknowledge and are required to engage in peer discussions to help explore pedagogical ideas andstrategies. Each week, participants submit assignments that are meant to serve as working draftsfor later refinement in the course design process. These assignments include defining courselearning outcomes, mapping out and aligning formative and summative assessments, creating anassessment, creating a syllabus, and identifying
their 2014 book, The Executive Guide to Innovation, research by IBM andMorgan Stanley [5], reports “…companies with high levels of innovation achieve the fastestgrowth of profits, and radical innovation generates 10X more shareholder value than incrementalchanges [p. 17].Cohort Group - Gen ZAt this writing, this is the newest and youngest generation on our collective radar screens. Thisnewest generation roughly spans the years 1997-2012.This generation has had a number of very good books written about them. Two in particular aresolidly based on extensive and exhaustive surveys. While there are many other literary works,the two referenced are Gen Z Goes to College [5] and iGen [6].The authors of Gen Z Goes to College did a cross-institutional
) writing and using instructional objectives, (b)adopting active learning strategies, and (c) effective use of diagnostic, formative, and summativeassessments. Pre and post assessment of participants’ conception of teaching was captured by a20 question multiple-choice instrument that included demographic material (pre) and courseevaluation (post) as appropriate. Item categories on the instrument were drawn from Bransford’sHow People Learn (HPL) framework 1, a framework that is acknowledged as a practical way oforganizing what we know about teaching and learning today. Participant responses wereaggregated into four categories that derive from this framework (learner, knowledge, assessment,and community) and investigate how teaching methods
engineering education researchers’ exploration of ways POD could aid them in disseminating their research, and to 12scaffold them through communicating those thoughts to the POD community . At POD, we intended to challenge the faculty development experts to “think like an engineer” and to have 13them brainstorm responses to the messages from the FIE participants . In particular, at FIE, engineering education researchers were asked to consider their dissemination needs based on their individual research pursuits and those of their peers (see Table 1). Participants created affinity diagram of
adding online students to their existing courses using NEW,and these efforts gradually expanded to allow students to complete an MS in Computer Science Page 15.687.4entirely online.The open-source NEW system has similar functionality to many widely-used commercialsystems for online synchronous course delivery. The primary interface is a computer-basedwhiteboard, which can be used to display slides, share images of running applications, write, ordraw. The system includes audio, so that the instructor's voice is broadcast along with theimages, and students in the distance environment who have microphone-equipped computers canparticipate via voice
understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1800 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #18739Prof. Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University, Department of Physics Robert J. Culbertson is an Associate Professor of Physics. Currently, he teaches introductory mechanics and electrodynamics for physics majors and a course in musical acoustics
of innovations, NMIMS as the director Shirpur campus and at College of Engineering Pune (COEP) as the founder head of the innovation Center. Dr Waychal earned his Ph D in the area of developing Innovation Competencies in Information System Organizations from IIT Bombay and M Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has presented keynote / invited talks in many high prole international conferences and has published papers in peer- reviewed journals. He / his teams have won awards in Engineering Education, Innovation, Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management at international events. Recently, his paper won the Best Teaching Strategies Paper award at the most respected international conference in the area of
completed experiment when later trying to write a lab report based on their fuzzyrecollections of the experimental details. Instructors can also direct students to use theseinteraction tools to facilitate peer review and/or assessment of the measureable products.Blended formatThe course material was designed to be delivered both locally and to remote classes. In this Page 15.638.7project, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute collaborated with the United States Military Academy atWest Point (USMA), which recently received ABET accreditation for their nuclear engineeringprogram. The USMA does not have local access to a critical facility or a linear
methodologies that have been conductedregarding the professional development of secondary school STEM educators in sub-SaharanAfrica. We limited our review to articles that were peer-reviewed within the past 60 years.Twenty-three articles satisfied our inclusion and exclusion criteria and formed the primarystudies for the synthesis. Based on our findings, we discussed how the lens of STEM teacherPD has tended to focus on numbers rather than the quality of pedagogical instructionalpractice. Our study also revealed that the recruitment of participants of the PD interventions,more often than not, failed to cater to the gender diversity of teachers in the respectivesettings. Recommendations offered by teacher trainers and researchers analyzed
grade. However, a job at this nexthigher level does not have an opening at this time. The individual, therefore, may have all of thenecessary personal tools to move up, but he or she simply lacks opportunity. If this conditionlasts for a prolonged period of time, the individual may seek other employment because he orshe cannot satisfy his or her personal goals, or, become complacent and loose site of their goals,resulting in performance degradation. This is a very real challenge in today’s flatterorganizational models. The solution to this is to provide peer-level, horizontal opportunities thatwill allow the individual the opportunity for personal growth and financial gain, without havingto move vertically in the organization.Ageing Slows
Paper ID #27333Partners in Professional Development: Initial Results from a CollaborationBetween Universities, Training Programs, and Professional SocietiesDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her
Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2200 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. James A. Middleton, Arizona State University James A. Middleton is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Research on Education