Conference Session

Lessons for New Engineering Educators

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

materials and students’homework. This allowed modification to the PD content and instruction targeted to fit the needsof current students and changes in course objectives.The list of task underwent by the PR was follows:1. Understand content of prior MEA TA-PD PowerPoint slides. This required reading the course syllabus, the MEA problem statement, sample student work on this MEA, experts’ assessment of this sample student work, and past semester TAs’ feedback on this sample student work.2. Modify PowerPoint slides to accommodate new content that could address TA confusion over poorly defined terms associated with MEAs and provide samples of actual TA feedback from past semester.3. Understand MEA assessment dimensions. There are two

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

designsituations. With the conversation as a backdrop, students were then introduced to the notion of adesign rationale and asked to draft a sample design rationale as a way to introduce them to thisconcept.Case 2: Graduate multi-week projectThe journal landscape project was a multi-week project in a graduate level course entitledEmpirical Traditions in Human Centered Design and Engineering. Per the syllabus, the task was Page 22.1116.3as follows: “Working in teams of two or three, you and your teammate(s) will characterize oneyear of articles in a major journal in our field in terms of five to seven dimensions of yourchoosing and then prepare a summary of