Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

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New Engineering Educators

school, receiving encouragement andsupport, work and career satisfaction, learning perspective and alternative solutions to theirproblems, less work and non-work conflict, and gaining individual recognition, confidence andself esteem. The mentor’s role is to listen, refer, advise, help the mentee gain perspective, and toserve as a role model. Mentors and mentees discuss problems and recurring themes. The peermentoring program is voluntary. Mentees who begin the peer mentoring program can opt out atany time. When the teacher quality improves, the students’ achievements also improve8. Mentorsfeel an even greater commitment to engineering and enjoy the experience of helping others.ObjectivesThe objectives of this study are to (1) provide new

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul Azad, Northern Illinois University; Osman Tokhi, University of Sheffield, UK.

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New Engineering Educators

matters ‚ Assessment of students ‚ Program approval, monitoring and review ‚ Career education, information and guidance ‚ Placement learning ‚ Recruitment and admissions The QAA can be compared with the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Engineering Technology) of the US 30. There are a number of differences between theABET and QAA: a) ABET only deals with engineering and engineering technology, whereQAA manages all branches of higher education; b) QAA deals with both the undergraduateand postgraduate programs, when ABET deals only with the undergraduate programs; c)All UK higher qualifications must be accredited by the QAA, while ABET’s accreditationis optional; d) ABET now practices outcome based

Conference Session

Enhancing Teaching and Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Erin Friend, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #32794Low-Barrier Strategies to Increase Student-Centered LearningMiss Nicole Erin Friend, University of Michigan Nicole Friend is currently a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering program at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S in Bioengineering: Biosystems from the University of California, San Diego in 2017. Nicole’s research interests are centered around regenerating vasculature in ischemic envi- ronments. Nicole is also interested in more broadly defining the field of tissue engineering and regenera- tive medicine to inform curriculum design and student career trajectories.Cassandra Sue Ellen

Conference Session

Scaling class size and technology – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Allison Godwin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Anant Sahai, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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New Engineering Educators

Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014

Conference Session

But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Colin Cerretani, University of California, Berkeley; Marjorie S Went, UC Berkeley

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New Engineering Educators

programs are growing.Brent and Felder’s 2008 ASEE paper on a professional development program for graduatestudents at their university described a program to help graduate students develop skills ineffective teaching, and a workshop to help prospective faculty find the right academic job andlaunch their careers. Their pedagogy component includes material on teaching assistant roles andresponsibilities, responding to crises, and handling cheating, as well as elective material specificto each teaching assistant’s needs, including grading, using technology, facilitating laboratories,and working with diverse teaching and learning styles.10Several universities offer optional teaching certification programs for teaching assistants whowish to delve

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #11847Using Humor to Create a Positive Learning EnvironmentProf. Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Page 26.1667.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using Humor to Create a Positive Learning EnvironmentAbstractHow to enhance student learning is a critical issue in academia. Throughout the author’sacademic career, teaching effectiveness has always been an on-going challenge.Consequently, he has experimented with different teaching techniques and approaches.The author’s

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

) Content centered approachesFaculty centered approaches - Creating more faculty timeAs mentioned above, time is limited. Faculty members need to balance their time in terms ofthe three main responsibilities: research, teaching and service. In some faculty memberscases, complicating the time issue can result in creative ways to carve out more time forthemselves.Creating time for oneself is important as faculty members need to juggle between multipleroles and responsibilities within their positions. Most of our participants commented aboutthe three components of a faculty career – research, teaching, and service – have arbitraryand complicated boundaries. In the examples below, three participants claimed that it washard for them to make the

Conference Session

Advice from the Experts for NEEs at Small Universities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Larson, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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New Engineering Educators

time on teaching than on research. Colbeck also notices that theproduction of research was somewhat constricted by the narrow definition of what someinstitutions considered as “acceptable” scholarship.The book by Wankat11 is a great resource for new engineering educators. It concentrates on thedevelopment of time management skills in new faculty and discusses effective and efficienttechniques for teaching, scholarship, and service. Reis9 addresses his book mainly to graduatestudents and postdoctoral researchers preparing for academic career. However, the last chapter ofthe book is dedicated to the first years in an academic position and includes advice on timemanagement, teaching, research, professional responsibility, and tenure.3. Choosing

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth Norberg, United States Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

academic career and their life. I attempted various methods to spur their interest,keep their attention, and enliven the discussion. I saw the value in developing a rapportwith the students and also answering the “so what” question that the challenging studentso often poses. In short, I saw the necessity of the commercial break in the class room.Research shows that the college age student initially has a 15-20 minute attention spanwhich becomes shorter as the lecture progresses [5] & [10]. Further research showed thatstudents recalled 70% of the information presented in the first 10 minutes of class andonly 20% from the last ten minutes [6].Changes in the environment recruit attention. The ability of changes to capture attentioncan work to the

Conference Session

Tips and Tricks for Assessing Student Performance

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gilbert C. Brunnhoeffer III, Roger Williams University

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #17693Homework Is So 20th Century !Dr. Gilbert C Brunnhoeffer III P.E., Roger Williams University Practiced Civil Engineering and Engineering Management in the U S Army for 20 years. Engaged in software engineering for three years and ran factories producing engineered materials for the aerospace and electronics industries for seventeen years. Teaching career includes engineering mechanics, civil engineering, and construction management for seventeen years. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Homework Is So 20th Century

Conference Session

Scaling class size and technology – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peggy C. Boylan-Ashraf, San Jose State University; John R. Haughery, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

, designing and redesigning lectures, and learning solutions to the legion ofissues students bring to them in their classes8. The third irony is perhaps the most peculiar and tragic of the three. Many institutions(and the academic departments within them) ask their least experienced faculty (typically, newassistant professors or lecturers) to teach large courses in their first few years8,22. Often thesecourses have many hundreds of students and are, by virtue of their size, among the mostchallenging to teach effectively13,36,62,48. Yet many senior faculty members view teaching thesecourses as a rite of passage, challenges that all faculty members must experience at early pointsin their careers regardless of their ability or interest. The

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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New Engineering Educators

teaching career. Any measurable improvements in student learning since then couldbe attributable to the handout design, or they could be attributable to overall improvements in myteaching abilities.ConclusionsIn a highly visual course such as Fluid Power, PowerPoint is an essential instructional tool forteaching engineering graphs, cutaway images, electrical circuits, and fluid power diagrams. Page 15.372.9However, PowerPoint’s printing options are inadequate. This paper discusses a number oftechniques for creating note-friendly handouts by moving PowerPoint images into MS Word,modifying the images, and providing generous whitespace for

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2010-939: STANDARDS FOR NEW EDUCATORS: GUIDE TO ABETOUTCOMES AND STANDARDS AVAILABILITY IN LIBRARIESCharlotte Erdmann, Purdue University Page 15.1088.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Standards for New Educators: Guide to ABET Outcomes and Standards Availability inLibrariesAbstractEngineering educators worked with standards in industrial and research careers. Many facultymembers use standards in their research and teaching. Awareness of standards may develop in avariety of ways including reading and writing dissertations, journal articles, conference papers,and handbooks. References to standards are also prevalent in bibliographic databases, andcampus websites

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; June Marshall, St. Joseph's College

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New Engineering Educators

roughtimes and keep on working. Knowing a few faculty members will enhances students’intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about their own values and futureplans. • Make a point to talk with students on a personal level and learn about their educational and career goals. • Seek out students who seem to be having problems with the course or miss class Page 13.968.8 frequently. • Advise students about career opportunities in their major field. • Share past experiences, attitudes, and values with students.Encourage Cooperation Among StudentsLearning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators

advanced degree or pursue acareer in research. Therefore, it is necessary to have well-defined projects that enable successively moreindependence as the participant’s competency grows. It is important that the project enable true research and thatthe participant does not simply act as a lab technician for a graduate student’s project. This section will discuss howto structure 10-week REU student projects to maximize productivity for the faculty member’s research whilesimultaneously facilitating a transformative and positive experience for the undergraduate both in the laboratory andin crafting their own professional career credentials

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saravanan Swaminathan, Tennessee Technological University; Barath Baburao, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

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New Engineering Educators

programs such as Page 11.670.2Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) at the University of Cincinnati, whose goal is to 1transform the way the aspiring faculty members prepare for their careers. Though thisinitiative is a cluster of 295 participating institutions, the disciplines primarily involvedare in arts and sciences and the participation of the engineering discipline is meager [6].Finally, students can participate in American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)meetings, either at the national, sectional or local levels (re: student chapters) to beexposed to issues of interest to faculty members concerning

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

June Marshall, St. Joseph's College; John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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New Engineering Educators

, the Education Commission of States, and The Johnson Foundation.These Seven Principles are also presented in Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F.Gamson’s book entitled Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice inUndergraduate Education (1991).Encourage Student / Faculty ContactFrequent student-faculty contact in and out of classes is the most important factor instudent motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through roughtimes and keep on working. Knowing a few faculty members well enhances students’intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about their own values and futureplans. • I make a point to talk with my students on a personal level and learn about their educational and career goals

Conference Session

Tips and Tricks for Actively Engaging Students

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel J. Dickerson, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Anita Jain

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New Engineering Educators

recent survey of over 1,000 Faculty Focus readers, 90% had an interestin learner-centered teaching articles (Bart, 2016).Therefore, in this paper, we propose that the long-term solution to this problem is to place facultymembers on a positive trajectory of using learner-centered techniques at the very start of theiracademic careers. One effective way to achieve success with this goal is to encourage andenable new faculty members to see for themselves that the benefits of active learning to bothstudents and instructors are real and that most perceived obstacles can be easily overcome. As acase study, we present the transformation of an introductory electrical and computer engineeringcourse on digital logic design from a passive (i.e., lecture

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators 4: Tips and Tools

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University

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New Engineering Educators

. This resulted in a MSEd from Purdue University in Learning Design and Technology (LDT). This widely varied background prepared me well for my next big adventure. Beginning in August 2018, I accepted a role as the Texas A and M Professor of Practice for the Texas A and M Engineering Academy at Blinn College in Brenham. TAMU Engineering Academies are an innovative approach to providing the planet with more Aggie Engineers. I am a technology learner and have been a regular presenter at the state TCEA (Texas Computer Educator Association) convention and PLTW state convention each year. My career began with a B.S. in Telecom Engineering from Texas A and M. Upon graduation, my learning continued at MCI, Vartec

Conference Session

Scaling class size and technology – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven S Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer L Bonniwell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Joshua David Carl, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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New Engineering Educators

support, product de-velopment, and quality assurance. I then attended graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in electricalengineering. After graduation, I accepted a faculty position at MSOE and I am currently in mythird year of teaching. I teach courses in all four years of MSOE’s EE undergraduate curricu-lum, though I only teach classes with laboratory portions in the first three years. These coursesinclude Linear Circuits, Control Systems, Introduction to Embedded Systems, Embedded Systems(separate classes for sophomores and junior transfer students), Object Oriented Programming, andDesign of Logic Systems (junior transfer students). From the start of my career at MSOE I haveexclusively used electronic notebooks in my classes.The primary goal of

Conference Session

NEE 2 - Strategies to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary; Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Sepideh Afkhami Goli, University of Calgary; Ehsan Mohammadi, University of Calgary; Fatemeh Sharifi, University of Calgary

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New Engineering Educators

development on career success.Dr. Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary Dr. Mohammad Moshirpour is an instructor of Software Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineer, University of Calgary. His research interests are the area of software architecture, software requirements engineering, design, implementation and analysis of multi-agent systems, intelligent data analytics, data mining and machine learning, and Software engineering and computer science education. He is a senior member of IEEE, and is the IEEE Chair of the Computer Chapter of the Southern Alberta Section.Dr. Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary Dr. Emily Marasco is a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary. Her education research focuses

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby Crawford, USMA; Tony Jones, USMA

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New Engineering Educators

about new technologies without the aid of formal instruction.BackgroundThe first course in the mechanical and civil engineering sequences is a course in staticanalysis and materials taught by the civil engineering faculty. It is not until the secondcourse in the sequence that the student meets the mechanical engineering faculty. Thefaculty members are predominantly mid-career U.S. Army officers with a Master ofScience degree in a mechanical engineering discipline, comfortable with more advancedmechanical engineering concepts, and accustomed to teaching engineering majors. Asmaller segment of the faculty consists of senior U.S. Army officers and civilians whohave earned a Ph.D. in their discipline.The typical student arrives in

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; June Marshall, St. Joseph's College

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New Engineering Educators

Education Commission of States, and The Johnson Foundation.These Seven Principles are also presented in Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F.Gamson’s book entitled Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice inUndergraduate Education.11Encourage Student / Faculty ContactFrequent student-faculty contact in and out of classes is the most important factor instudent motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through roughtimes and keep on working. Knowing a few faculty members well enhances students’intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about their own values and futureplans. • I make a point to talk with my students on a personal level and learn about their educational and career goals. • I seek out my

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James C. Squire, Virginia Military Institute; Turk McCleskey, Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University; Anthony Evan English, Western New England University

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New Engineering Educators

Western New England University where he teaches biomedical engineering. His interests include the application of non-linear control theory to soft biomaterial phase transitions and cellular level phenomena. Prof. English is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Page 23.801.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Interdisciplinary Problems and Numerical Analysis: 10 Things We Wish We Knew 20 Years AgoAbstractNon-engineering faculty often find the engineering quantitative mindset and ability to conductnumeric analysis

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

ABET criteria and has been singled out by ABET program evaluatorsas unique and noteworthy. On graduate surveys, graduates, upon joining the workforce, generallypraise the project as being one of the most useful of their college career. More than a few haveparlayed jobs through the contacts developed with vendors when seeking Treasure Huntinformation. Several companies specifically seek graduates who enjoyed this project.ConclusionThe case study project has been an insightful learning experience since the early 1980s. Thiscurriculum integrated assignment has offered opportunities for students and library staffmembers to acquire increased appreciation for the knowledge, skill, and persistence needed tosolve the complexities of challenging

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew E. Jackson, East Carolina University; Sherion H. Jackson, Grand Canyon Univeristy

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #9847Subscribing to WII-FM: When will we Begin to Function as a Team?Dr. Andrew E. Jackson, East Carolina University Dr. Jackson serves as a Tenured, Full Professor in the Department of Technology Systems at ECU. He is a senior faculty member in the Industrial Engineering Technology (IET) program where he teaches a variety of IET courses, including: Production Systems Engineering and Production Planning, Engineering Economics, Human Factors Engineering, and Risk Assessment. His career spans 40 years in the fields of aviation, aerospace, defense contract engineering support, systems acquisition, academics, and

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

Gulf Region at the start of their academic career, and argues thatthe introduction, early on, of “well thought out” professional development strategiesof engineering educators would raise their self-confidence as teachers and help inequipping them with the tools they need in disseminating knowledge in theclassroom. This does not mean that learning and teaching does not go on in Region’scolleges of engineering; I think that a great deal does. But there is every reason tobelieve that introducing a higher level of professionalism would enable young facultyto create and sustain a more powerful form of engineering education for the Region.The author draws on his own experience in the Region, as a faculty member and anadministrator, and looks

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Margaret Bates, Northeastern University; Brittany Damon, Northeastern University; Alison Reppy

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New Engineering Educators

Engineering Programming at Northeastern University. These juniors each have had 3 cooperative learning experiences, working outside the university in IE and have taken a strong interest in Motivation and Learning in Engineering Education, undertaking this research above and beyond their course and career work.Alison Reppy, Northeastern University Brittany Damon and Alison Reppy are 5th-year students in the 5-year Industrial Engineering Programming at Northeastern University. These Seniors each have had 3 cooperative learning experiences, working outside the university in IE and have taken a strong interest in Motivation and Learning in Engineering Education, undertaking this research

Conference Session

Developing New Engineering Educators

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy B. Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana

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New Engineering Educators

feeling less stressed andmore energized and including opportunities for personal interests (Dudovskiy 2013).ObjectivesThe intent of being efficient or productive is not complete without a framing in the context ofone’s goals in the short- and long-term. A faculty member’s work, whether they are early careeror at a later stage in their academic career, can fall into a reactive mode, rather than anintentional and proactive mode that supports one’s goals. In other words, one can becomecaught up in the day-to-day series of tasks, many of them calling for one’s immediate attentionand time, and delaying progress on long-term goals and complex projects.This paper presents a holistic framework that helps one make time management decisions andwork towards

Conference Session

Encouraging Students to Think Critically

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebekah Oulton PE, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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New Engineering Educators

careers – there may be more than one valid approach to solve aproblem and more than one “right” answer to that problem. With this challenge in mind, a“Signature Assignment” was developed to help students develop effective critical thinking skills.Here, a “Signature Assignment” as defined as a coordinated series of in-class activities andindividual assignments, collectively consisting of approximately 20% of instructional time and acorresponding percentage of the overall grade.Discussion of development of the Signature Assignment in this paper is intended to be useful forengineering educators in many different disciplines. The material presented was developed for agroundwater hydrology class for senior-level civil and environmental engineering