Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2 - Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mohan Khedkar, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati

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Track 3 - Faculty Development

impartation of quality knowledge and skills to the students,thereby lowering their overall development and employability. At times, the facultyalso lack in communication and pedagogical skills and industry academiccollaboration is also at nascent stage. Hence, the process of faculty developmentbecomes highly imperative. Improvements in instructional programs may involve subject integration, just-in-time instruction, writing across the curriculum, or any of a variety of other non-traditional approaches that have been found to improve learning. The quality of ateaching program is primarily related to the quality of the instruction that takes placein individual classrooms. For the new curricula and instructional methods to have thedesired impact, a

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2 - Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Prasad Edamana, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M), India; Ajit Kumar Kolar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Pramod S. Mehta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Sujatha Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Track 3 - Faculty Development

enthusiastic participant in the activities of the Teaching-Learning Centre at IIT-M.Dr. Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor and the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathe- matics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with a