examples of how this was implemented in the Introduction toBiomechanics course, and the importance of the topic learned through experience inrestructuring the Biomechanics course. Examples from the Biomechanics course are provided asa model of how this system can be used to restructure a course and are not meant to reflect theonly way in which these concepts can be applied. The recommendations posed to TAs in thispaper are based on experience, and specific course restructuring decisions were guided byeducational literature. The lessons learned through experiences described in this paper maybenefit current graduate students who are helping an instructor redesign a course to include moreactive learning techniques, graduate students who are
curriculum developmentand instructional support. As part of this group, nine undergraduate students were hired to helpin the development of five CBI courses. The students were directly supervised by a graduatestudent under the direction of an engineering faculty member. The courses included ComputerAided Design, Water Science, Systems Thinking, Nanotechnology, and Computer Science.The students had access to previously developed curriculum and TexPREP instructors who hadtaught similar content in prior years. Their objective was to develop and support an effectiveCBI challenge for each course that was engaging for students and addressed the majority ofcourse content. Developed materials supporting the CBI challenge included detailed courseoutlines and
to be, his passion has always been more on the teachingside. One of Jon’s job prospects that was very interesting to him was in Philadelphia. Thoughthis job was not directly related to his field of study, it was an opportunity to use his skill set in adifferent area. When he contacted a graduate student colleague of both Jon and Chris about lifein Philadelphia, that connection proved to be invaluable. He noted his department had a jobposting for a teaching faculty member. This was Chris’s dream job. In the end, Chris left histenure track position for a non-tenure track teaching faculty position and Jon left his researchcareer for a career in software, which has been an underlying passion of his. Patience andflexibility ultimately led to
, an individual’s free response submission may be described by more than onecode, hence the (#) represents the frequency a theme appears across all respondents’ answers. 1. Which current affiliation applies to you? o Undergraduate Student (10) o Graduate Student (0) o Faculty Member (2) o Staff Member (0) o Administration (1) 2. What department affiliation applies to you? o Architecture (5) o Architectural Engineering (3) o City & Regional Planning (1) o Construction Management (0) o Landscape Architecture (4) 3. Are you a member of either the Student or Faculty Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committees? o Yes (3) o No (10) 4. Rate the
us what we maybe already knew, but nevertheless needed to hear: students enterengineering education from diverse points of origin and continue through to careers that are aslikely beyond engineering as within it. However, a close reading of the report also reveals twovoices. On the one hand, there was the voice of educators and administrators eager to celebratethe fact that engineering can serve as rigorous preparation for a variety of future occupations. Onthe other hand, there was a smaller number of educators, including NAE staff members who,through their engagement with the literature on women and minorities in engineering educationsought to make the point that many students enter engineering with diverse backgrounds andpreparation in
engineering. Her research interests address a broad spectrum of educational topics, but her specialty is in how people learn problem solving skills.Hannah Christine Zierden, The Ohio State UniversityMr. Kevin Robert Wegman Kevin is a first year graduate student studying Nuclear Engineering. He graduated last fall with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Kevin has taught with the EEIC for the past three years, twice as a UTA and once as a GTA.Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Engineering Education Innovation Center and the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State Univer- sity. She earned her B.S. and M.S
shaping and supportingstudents’ group-learning experiences.6 While faculty practices are important in all group-learningapproaches, they can be particularly important for supporting under-represented students, whooften experience marginalization in such settings. Both faculty and peers can marginalizeindividual students in a variety of ways, including through assignment of work tasks, validationof work tasks, validation of ideas or perspectives, and the nature of the group task itself.First, at the onset of an activity, task assignment biases can often result from unconsciousexpectations about who may be more (or less) suited to certain tasks.7, 8 While each team isdifferent, with a different set of identities and personalities, there is also
, function to privilege and perpetuate certainunderstandings of the field. Autoethnographic techniques are used to construct three accounts ofthe student’s encounters with an upper level administrator, various members of faculty, and anacademic advisor. Critical analysis of these experiences using a prior evidence-based model ofstories ‘told’ about engineering in the public discourse reveals tensions between the freshmanstudent’s values and career interests and the emergent, dominant discourse he observed in hisundergraduate program. These tensions are described in terms of: i) The prioritization of nationaleconomic recovery and growth over the life and career goals of individuals; ii) A predominantfocus on the quantitative and technical aspects of