discussions on pedagogical teaching strategies based on their day-to-day classroom experiences. Periodic meetings among the core team members resulted in aconsensus to conduct a FDP for engineering college teachers, not from IIT-M, who are studyingin IIT-M for their higher degrees under a nationally-sponsored scheme called the QualityImprovement Program (QIP). The core team organized this event, which was attended by 24participants, during August 2010. This event provided an opportunity for the core team membersto apply their insights acquired during the 2009 FDP to develop teaching methodologiesappropriate to Indian contexts and adapt their “teaching pedagogy” accordingly. The core teamincreased their self-confidence in conducting their own FDP
Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineer- ing courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Educa- tion (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011