Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Michael Gregg, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2007-1313: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON IMPLEMENTING ATEAM-TEACHING MODELJenny Lo, Virginia Tech JENNY LO, assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, has interests in freshman curricula, engineering ethics, increasing diversity of the engineering population, and promoting undergraduate research.Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech VINOD LOHANI, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, has research interests related to freshman curricula, predictors of student success, international study, and sustainability.Michael Gregg, Virginia Tech MICHAEL GREGG, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at

Conference Session

Educational Research and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malcolm Drewery, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Stefani A. Bjorklund

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New Engineering Educators

commitment to assessing specific approaches to teaching, learning, andstudent learning outcomes. The report, Engineer of 2020 Project, Visions of Engineering in theNew Century, identifies the attributes and abilities engineers will need to perform well in a worlddriven by rapid technological advancements, national security needs, aging infrastructure indeveloped countries, environmental challenges brought about by population growth anddiminishing resources, and the creation of new disciplines at the interfaces between engineeringand science. To ensure that future engineers have these capabilities, they must be educated to benot only technically proficient, but also ethically grounded global citizens who can becomeleaders in business and public

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific Univ; Donald Peter

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New Engineering Educators

indicate that it is beneficial for their learning and 93% indicate that it should becontinued. Students concur with us, also, that the self-graded homework helps them to takeresponsibility for their own learning. In addition to apparently improved student learning, anadded benefit to the faculty member is less grading. Self grading also creates a naturalopportunity to address ethics and integrity issues with students. The drawbacks for the facultymember include: twice as many homework scores to document and the need to provide detailed,correct, homework solutions. Further, when assigned, the faculty member may choose to readthe metacognition responses and, perhaps, respond to the student. Despite the added timerequirement, forming the detailed

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, East Carolina University; Robert Chin, East Carolina University; Charles Coddington, East Carolina University; Paul Petersen, East Carolina University; Fonooni Hamid

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New Engineering Educators

2. They hold high ethical standards themselves and expect no less from you 3. They have a proven history of teaching, research, and funded grants Page 12.1058.7Conclusions Mentoring programs run the gambit from being no help in some cases to the otherextreme of smothering new faculty and overwhelming them with sage advice and historicaltrivia. In intuitions were there is no mentoring, faculty members often flounder for a period oftime and if they “have what it takes,” they will do well and flourish on their own imitative. Inmany organizations this is done intentionally. This attitude is typically based on the old guardconcept of