coordinator from the campus-wide information technology group. TAs areencouraged to ask questions and bring up concerns during the demonstration to make thediscussion more interactive.Classroom Observation and Teaching PracticumDepending on their assigned duties, TAs are observed during their classroom or laboratorysession or they participate in a teaching practicum.Classroom or laboratory observations are conducted by the director of TA certification. Theobservation protocol calls for a 30 – 45 minute observation of teaching practices, with a focus onthe following aspects: projecting authority and confidence; building a rapport with students clearly stating learning objectives for the session speaking volume, pace, and clarity
mentored teaching activities applied the conceptslearned in the PFF courses. The individualized mentored teaching experience included teachingundergraduate and graduate courses, giving talks at research seminars, and mentoring seniorprojects and REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) students in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at UC. Various methods of active learning, motivatingstudents, problem-based active laboratory learning, and peer tutoring were explored and appliedto mentor students. The paper also includes feedback from the PFF program coordinator and theacademic research mentor.I. IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF) is a national initiative to better prepare Ph.D., M.S., andpostdoctoral students to
A Professional Development Program for Graduate Students at North Carolina State UniversityI. Introduction The traditional engineering graduate school experience involves taking courses, selectinga dissertation or thesis advisor and project, performing the research under the advisor’ssupervision, and completing and defending the dissertation. Such an experience trains graduatestudents to carry out research on a problem someone else has defined and gotten funded. It doesnot, however, prepare them for anything else they might be called upon to do in graduate schooland in their professional careers, including: • Teaching assistant responsibilities. Grade assignments, projects, and tests; supervise laboratories
development ofskills related to teaching, professional communication and the job search3.Table 1: GSGA Survey ResultsSKILL RATINGConduct independent research 3.57Teach (small “seminar” or “problem-based” learning courses 2.00Teach (large “lecture” course) 1.79Teach (laboratory) 2.05Assess performance outcomes from teaching, supervising, or leading 1.70Prepare written credentials (CV, resume, cover letter) 2.14Interviewing skills
decisions.Second, ASEE student chapters teach skills to equip graduate students to be successful as futureengineering educators. These vital skills include preparing a curriculum vitae (CV), applyingand interviewing for a faculty position, writing research funding proposals, starting andmaintaining a research laboratory, teaching effectively, and balancing teaching and researchresponsibilities. Equipping graduate students to be successful educators is the most direct way to Page 13.674.2impact the future of engineering education.Third, ASEE student chapters promote engineering and careers in engineering education.Promoting engineering and academic careers
experience and motive using student comments and survey data on perceptions of the Page 24.189.2course. Those who work in graduate teacher training and graduate student development may beinterested in this paper.IntroductionMany universities and colleges provide teacher training for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs).The GTAs play an important role as instructors, lecturers, laboratory and recitation teachers,graders, tutors, proctoring exams and grading homeworks. An Internet search on trainingmanuals or programs will bring up dozens of these teaching tools for GTAs, suggesting thatthere are a variety of methods and strategies to prepare graduate
changes in our environment and to better prepare ourstudents to be future academic leaders.IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF) programs typically meet three standard requirements: 1. they focus on the full spectrum of faculty roles and responsibilities with regard to teaching, research, and service, and how these responsibilities may be interpreted in different institutions; 2. they provide participants with multiple mentors and feedback not only on their research but also on teaching and service; 3. to accomplish these goals, they involve a cluster of institutions, with one doctoral degree-granting institution partnering with a variety of other institutions.The 12-year-old Preparing
University in thatseveral faculty volunteered to cover one or more topics or create one or more laboratoryexperiences, many of which were done as an overload in their teaching assignment. In total, 19different faculty presented on the lecture topics outlined in Table 1, while 6 faculty, 2 staff, and 6senior PhD students developed and/or assisted with the laboratory experiences.One particular challenge in organizing this course with so much faculty involvement wasscheduling when faculty were available to present. Hence, some of the content in Table 1 mayflow better if it was organized differently, but the final schedule was determined by facultyavailability. The process of setting the final content was initiated 5-6 months before the coursebegan by
Worlds. Princeton: Carnegie Foundation, 1987.[9] J. Luft, J. Kurdziel, G. Roehrig, and J. Turner, "Growing a Garden without Water: Graduate Teaching Assistants in Introductory Science Laboratories at a Doctoral/Research University," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 41, pp. 211-233, 2004.[10] J. S. Fairweather, "The Mythologies of Faculty Productivity: Implications for Institutional Policy and Decision Making," The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 73, pp. 26-48, 2002.[11] J. S. Fairweather, "Faculty Rewards Reconsidered: the Nature of Tradeoffs," Change, vol. 25, pp. 44-47, 1996.[12] T. Andernach and G. N. Saunders-Smits, "The Use of Teaching Assistants in Project Based Learning at Aerospace
laboratory session of 2 or 3 hours’ duration can be Page 14.253.16 classified as Visual or Kinesthetic.References:1. Aiken, L. R. (2000). Psychological Testing and Assessment (10thEdition). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.2. Angelo, T.A. (Summer, 1991). "Ten Easy Pieces: Assessing Higher Learning in Four Dimensions." In T.A. Angelo (Ed.) Classroom Research: Early Lessons from Success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 46, 17-31.3. Armstrong, Thomas (1993). 7 Kinds of Smart. New York: Plume.4. Armstrong, Thomas. (1994). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. Alexandria
25.360.5hired for the program. The new laboratory course is taught by the existing faculty. All othercourses for the program are pre-existing and the additional enrollment is partially supportedthrough enhanced funding for teaching assistants. Administrative staff resources are shared withthe department. This program capitalizes on existing resources and creates a new program toattract additional students with minimal additional resources.Market AssessmentAs part of the program development process, a market assessment of the structural engineeringindustry and students was conducted to evaluate the validity and viability of the program.An industry assessment was conducted in the spring of 2007. The goals of the assessment wereto obtain feedback from
AC 2008-824: TO SINK OR SWIM: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FORMAINTAINING AND NURTURING AN ASEE STUDENT CHAPTERReginald Rogers, University of Michigan Reginald Rogers is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT and M.S. degree from Northeastern University, both in Chemical Engineering. While at Northeastern, Reginald served as a teaching assistant to many Chemical Engineering courses including Material & Energy Balances, Thermodynamics, and Transport Processes. He was awarded several teaching awards and served on the TA leadership committee focused on improvement of the teaching assistant position in the classroom at
Sustainabil- ity Practices, energy management of Data Centers and to establish Sustainable strategies for enterprises. He is an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy efficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. As a means of promoting student-centric learning, Prof. Radhakrishnan has successfully introduced games in to his sustainability classes where students demonstrate the 3s of sustainability, namely, Environment, Economics and Equity, through games. Stu- dents learn about conservation (energy, water, waste, equity, etc.) through games and quantifying the results. He has published papers on this subject and presented them in conferences. Before his teaching
of experience in dealing with difficult students or difficultsituations. Formal teaching methods are often not supplied – and practical experience is limited,often resulting in poor and ineffective communication between faculty and students.This paper will address a potential solution towards preparing graduate students in becomingfuture engineering faculty. The paper will focus on several engineering graduate students whoparticipated in a grant linking their education, research, and career development. Thedevelopment of the graduate students in the program is rooted in a 20 hour a week commitmentto develop and implement self-created, engineering and research related lessons in local highschools throughout the academic year. The paper will
al. suggested that instead oflibrarians, a co-taught model with a departmental faculty member and a librarian would improvethe ability for the course to put theory into practice. The DMP assignment in the Thielen workresulted in a large range of DMPs: from 3 to 26 pages. The authors note that they will revise theassignment in the future to be more explicit. Our experience from this course indicates that thismight be a result of no distinction between the short, funding proposal DMP and the longer,laboratory DMP. A distinction between these two different DMPs and suggestions on how toteach each is included in a separate presentation.[27] From the variety of previous approaches to teaching RDM at the graduate level, twothemes emerge: 1
through Applications: Comparison of Engraving Capabilitiesbetween the Haas CO2 Laser and the Oxford Lasers Solid State Diode Pumped Laser, abstract accepted bythe Proceeding of the 2008 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Pittsburg, PA,June 2008.9. Zhang, L. T., Adams, R. D., Zhang, J. Z., Graduate Learning through Teaching: Design of a DSSSSystem for Undergraduate Wireless Communications Laboratory, abstract accepted by the Proceeding ofthe 2008 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Pittsburg, PA, June 2008. Page 13.1065.10
-structure interaction during earthquakes. Due to the scope of the project, graduatestudents are serving as the primary mentors to the undergraduates as they complete their researchappointments.In this paper, we describe our strategies and experiences in recruiting, training, advising, andmentoring undergraduate student researchers for this laboratory-based research project. We alsodiscuss the methods used to prepare the graduate students for their roles as research mentors.As part of this project, the principal investigators worked with the graduate students to provideadvice and training on topics such as teamwork, project management, communication, feedback,and student learning, which has helped to foster effective mentor-mentee relationships.We
since as Assistant Professor (2005-2011), Associate Professor (2011-2012) and Professor (2012-). Rohit was the first assistant professor hired into the new Bioengineering department and played a key role in the development of its curriculum and activities. He later founded and serves as the coordinator of the Cancer Community@Illinois, a group dedicated to advancing cancer-related research and scholar- ship on campus. Research in the Bhargava laboratories focuses on fundamental theory and simulation for vibrational spectroscopic imaging, developing new instrumentation and developing chemical imaging for molecular pathology. Using 3D printing and engineered tumor models, recent research seeks to elucidate hetero
2006-2465: ENGAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY: PREPARING UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS FOR GRADUATE STUDYWesley Stone, Western Carolina University Wes Stone is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University. He earned his B.S at the University of Texas at Austin, his M.S. at Penn State University, and his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His industrial experience includes manufacturing and six sigma quality, which are current areas of interest. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in solid mechanics, quality, and capstone design at Western Carolina.Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University Chip W. Ferguson is an Assistant Professor of
Paper ID #25879Introducing a New Graduate Degree in Technology Management: ProgramOverview and Assessment PlanDr. Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale Dr. Gonca Altuger-Genc is an Assistant Professor at State University of New York - Farmingdale State College in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. She is serving as the MS Technol- ogy Management Graduate Program Coordinator. Her research interests are engineering education, self- directed lifelong learning, virtual laboratories, and decision-making framework development for design and manufacturing environments.Dr. Bahar Zoghi, State
Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Care and Keeping of Graduate Students: An Interactive Panel Discussion for Novice Advisors of Graduate Students1. Introduction and PurposeWhile most young professors expect to juggle teaching with research, service, and grant writing,the expectation to form and lead an (immediately productive) laboratory group is sometimessurprising and often challenging. Graduate students expect that their faculty mentors will
effectively uses modern technology whileteaching at Miami University. He has utilized World Wide Web and InteractiveVideo Distance Learning extensively in addition to other teaching techniques. W.W.W.and I.V.D.L. actually supplement other routinely used audio visual techniques such aspower point presentations, tutorials, problem-solving sessions, written research reports,peer group discussions, poster presentations etc. The author utilizes a variety of instructional tools to communicate with studentswho may prefer to have different learning styles (Kolb, 1985). The author alsorecommends and encourages students to utilize the resources that are readily available atthe university, such as Library, Writing Center, Computer Laboratory, etc
AC 2011-1023: INNOVATIVE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN NANOENGI-NEERINGAjit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ajit D. Kelkar is a Professor and Chairman of Nanoengineering department at Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He also serves as an As- sociate Director for the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures and is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro. For the past twenty five years he has been working in the area of performance evaluation and modeling of poly- meric composites and ceramic matrix composites. He has worked with several federal laboratories in the
teaches introductory engineering courses such as problem solving and computer programming, statics, and mechanics.Dr. Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez Pedro Quintero earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez and an M.S .from that same institution. After spending nine years in the electronics industry, he joined the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez, in 2008 as an Assistant Professor.Dr. Guillermo J. Serrano, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez Guillermo Serrano received the B.S. degree in electrical
. She received two B.S. degrees from North Carolina State University and her M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin. Contact: kim@talleyweb.comKathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin KATHY J. SCHMIDT is the Director of the Faculty Innovation Center for the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. In this position, she promotes the College of Engineering's commitment to finding ways to enrich teaching and learning. She works in all aspects of education including design and development, faculty training, learner support, and evaluation. Contact k.schmidt@mail.utexas.edu
AC 2009-1468: MANAGING COURSE OFFERING RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS INNEWER GRADUATE PROGRAMS THROUGH SPECIAL TOPICS COURSESBimal Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityPaul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Page 14.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Managing course offering resource constraints in newer graduate programs through special topics coursesIntroductionMost new graduate programs face many challenges including lower initial enrollments, limitededucational resources such as laboratory equipment, faculty lines, and under developed or“work-in-process” curriculum. While the institution has its resource constraints, the studentsmay
; and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. His teaching focuses on sociology of education, inequalities in education, educational evaluation and policy analysis, research methods and designs, and statistics and evaluation.Uriel Lomel´ı-Carrillo, The University of Texas at San Antonio Uriel Lomel´ı-Carrillo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Demography at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to his doctoral program, Lomel´ı-Carrillo worked as a statistician and research assistant for the Survey of Migration at the Northern Border of Mexico. Lomel´ı-Carrillo’s research interests include demographic methods, mortality, spatial demography, and the Mexican War on Drugs. He has presented his
Paper ID #32460Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Online Graduate EngineeringEducation: Learning-Centered Vision, Administration, and Course DesignDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community
AC 2011-517: PROJECT-BASED RESIDENCY COURSE FOR ONLINEGRADUATE PROGRAMBimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityDr. F. Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University Dr. Barry Lawrence holds the Leonard and Valerie Bruce Leadership Chair, the Program Director of the Industrial Distribution Program, Director of the Thomas and Joan Read Center, and Director of the Global Supply Chain Laboratory at Texas A&M University. As a faculty member of the Industrial Distribution Program he is involved in graduate, undergraduate, and professional continuing education teaching activities, funded research projects, publications and in- dustry presentations. His teaching activities surround classes in manufacturer/distributor
Paper ID #6942PERFORMANCE-CENTERED ADAPTIVE CURRICULUM FOR EMPLOY-MENT NEEDSProf. Clara P´erez-Molina, DIEEC - National Distance Education University Clara P´erez Molina received her MSc degree in Physics from the Complutense University in Madrid and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the National Distance Education University (UNED). She has worked as researcher in several national and European projects and has published different technical reports and research articles for journals and conferences, as well as teaching books. She has received the UNED’s Social Council Award for the best Didactic Materials in