Conference Session

Professional Aspects of Graduate Engineering Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Kavitha D. Ramane, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

a student member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).Mrs. Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jeremi London is a graduate student at Purdue University. She is pursuing a M.S. in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in engineering education.Mr. Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette Benjamin Ahn is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests relate to higher education reform, graduate teaching assistants’ roles in engineering classes, undergraduate engineering syllabus and curriculum development, and professional engineering practices in universities and industries. Ahn’s research has been strongly motivated by

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

college teaching workshops (CTWs). These workshopsaim to help TAs, NTGSs, faculty, and university staff, develop self-efficacy and feelings ofpreparedness by exposing them to a wide variety of topics that relate to pedagogical knowledgeand pedagogical content knowledge. Specifically, workshop topics include: student-teacherrelationships, policies and procedures related to teaching, syllabus construction, course design,presentation techniques, practice teaching, objective test creation, subjective test design andgrading, and preventing and responding to cheating. Each workshop was constructed to contain acombination of lecture, discussion, and activities in which participants are provided withopportunities to interact with one another as well as