Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Miller

’ comments were tallied andcomplied for class. The results, in their entirety, are given in Appendix B; an abbreviated table ofmain concerns is shown in Table 1.The new faculty member first reviewed the results with the mentor. Several interesting pointswere noted. First, a major comment in all three classes was that the students did not want theinstructor to do book questions as classroom examples. Second, nine members of the 10:00 AMfluids class commented that the pace was too fast while none of the 9:00 AM class made a similarcomment. By comparing the results it was determined that the 10:00 AM class, made up of CETstudents, had a different background than the MET students in the 9:00 AM class, as a result,they required additional explanations of

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato

Session 3275 So You’re a New Teacher – What Now? Captain Craig Quadrato United States Military AcademyIntroduction Teaching is not my regular job. Or at least it wasn’t. One of the wonderful opportunitiesin the Army is the chance to get selected as a rotating faculty member at The United StatesMilitary Academy (USMA) at West Point. When I was accepted, I was overjoyed. With theappointment as an instructor at USMA came a fully funded masters degree and the opportunityto present structural steel design to undergraduate cadets. But somewhere

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

first on the exams, followed by written and numerical assignments. Theinstructor continued covering new material in both classes, however, no additional assignments,other than laboratory reports, were assigned through the end of the semester.Possible AlternativesAt many institutions, alternatives exist for providing instructional materials online. The Universityof Pittsburgh provides faculty access to CourseInfo v. 3.0, the online course management systemfrom Blackboard, Inc. The author had attended a one-day workshop in 2000 introducingCourseInfo. Limited use by other faculty within the Engineering Technology Division and theamount of time required to prepare materials, resulted in the author not incorporating CourseInfointo his teaching at

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christe

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

this age-old situation. It isnot about teaching strategies, it is more a tactical approach to teaching. Although it is true that thereare problems with universities, facilities, and preparation of faculty and students; and someone shouldbe looking at the big picture; it is also true we are here, now. What can we do today?IntroductionIt can generally be assumed that new engineering educators are technically well prepared, have athorough knowledge of the field of study, and have some reasonable depth of experience in thesubject matter beyond the current course. It is even likely that they are excited about the field, andfind it quite interesting, challenging, and compelling.It is also assumed that they have a sincere interest in teaching, that

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

," 1993—ASQ Quality Congress Transactions--Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1993, p. 428-434. 3. Anderson, M.R. and Wilson, G. N., "Faculty Women's Association, An Instrument for Change," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1985, p. 73-83. 4. Anderson, M.R., "Graduate Career Change Program: A "Win-Win" Proposition for All," 1988 College Industry Education Conference Proceedings, San Diego, California, February 1988, p. 138-147. 5. Anderson, M.R., “Understanding Freshman Engineering Student Retention Through a Survey,” Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June1997, Session 3553, CDROM, 7 pages. 6

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

Is a successful r esear ch labor ator y possible with under gr aduate students alone? Roger V. Gonzalez, J uan Lopez, and Paul Leiffer LeTour neau Univer sityAbstractDeveloping a successful research laboratory with qualified graduate students is a demandingventure. Trying to accomplish this with undergraduate students alone, given the demandingacademic load and steep research learning curve is daunting. Nevertheless, during the past eightyears the Biomedical Engineering Faculty at LeTourneau University have managed to develop asuccessful undergraduate research program and secure multiple external funding sources.Laboratory research has

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Kresta; Alan Nelson

Session 3675 Team Teaching of Thermodynamics: Rapid Instructional Development in Young Academics Alan E. Nelson and Suzanne M. Kresta University of Alberta Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G6 CanadaIntroduction A large undergraduate teaching service course is often viewed as a teaching ghetto,where young academics learn how to teach by doing without any substantial guidance ormentoring. New faculty are often assigned to such courses during the first term of appointmentand are expected to perform in the

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

the textbook before coming toclass; active learning; undergraduate lecture teaching assistants; distribution and collection ofmaterials as well as post-lecture review of submitted work; making the environment more friendlythrough music and videos; integration of learning communities; and classroom representatives andteam minute papers to create a manageable student feedback mechanism. This paper will presentthe perspectives of a new faculty member teaching for the first time and of more experiencedinstructors of large classes.Introductory CommentsOne can imagine the worries of a new professor teaching for the first time: How do I write agood test? How do I keep the lectures interesting? Are my expectations of the studentsreasonable? What if

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Fredericks Volkwein; Linda Strauss; Lisa Lattuca; Patrick Terenzini

additionally stress thedevelopment of professional skills such as communication, teamwork, and group problemsolving. The new standards also shift focus away from a checklist approach that emphasizedmeeting standards for curricula, resources, faculty, and facilities, and encourage a new focus onstudents’ educational outcomes. The new standards, known as EC2000, are expected tostimulate significant restructuring of curricula, instructional practices, and assessment activitiesin engineering. Evidence of student learning, specifically, those outcomes articulated inCriterion 3, is now a central requirement for accreditation5.In spring 2002, ABET contracted with members of the faculty at the Center for the Study ofHigher Education at Penn State to assess

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

Session 3275 Building Better Rapport With Students: Advice for New Engineering Educators Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractGood rapport between faculty and students and its influence on effective teaching is wellknown.1-2 Workshops3-4 and courses5 on effective teaching include development of faculty-student relationships as an essential part of successful teaching. As leaders and facilitators in theclassroom, faculty must take the initiative to encourage the development of good rapport withtheir students. This is not

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

Session 3275 The Benefits of Engagement: Non-Traditional Technology Students and the New Educator Sarah E. Leach Purdue UniversityAbstractTeaching non-traditional students often means teaching in a non-traditional environment. Non-traditional may mean, for example, offering evening classes or classes off-campus. Thedrawbacks of timing and transportation are easily outweighed by the benefits of “engaging” thecommunity, of teaching older, employed students who would otherwise not be able to attendclasses. Non-traditional students can

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig T. Evers P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-1504: VIEWS OF DIVERSE GROUPS OF INTERNATIONAL ANDAMERICAN STUDENTS CONCERNING BUSINESS, CULTURAL, ANDETHICAL ISSUESCraig T Evers, PhD, PE, Minnesota State University - Mankato Craig T. Evers currently I am an assistant professor at Minnesota State University Mankato teaching un- dergraduate and graduate courses in the Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering department. I have over 25 years experience in the manufacturing industry, mostly in automotive related positions. Some of my past employers include John Deere, Robert Bosch Corporation, Intel and IBM. Previous positions include tooling manager for a Fortune 500 electronics company, production engineer for fuel components line with $125 million annual

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

colleagues. However, they are pleased that youare teaching a design course and they are not.ConclusionsThis paper has presented a brief overview of the philosophy used for and lessons learnedfrom teaching a sophomore design course at the University of Houston for the past tenyears. The students complain about the extra work but generally appreciate theopportunity to work in a group, to create a device, to receive feedback on their designskills and communication efforts, and to receive recognition from their peers for theirefforts. One would think that creating a new project each semester with little concreteevidence about whether or not the requirements will be impossible to meet, unreasonable,or trivial would be a serious concern. In fact, this

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Panther, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts. Page 26.980.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Instructor Concerns and Use of Resources in the Development of Course MaterialsIntroductionA national push to reform engineering education has been in effect to enable the United States tostay globally competitive1. In doing so, the field of engineering education has grown rapidlywhich has led to the development of new research-based innovations2. An innovation

Conference Session

Faculty Development I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #11939A Pedagogy of Larger Concerns: Grounding Engineering Faculty Develop-ment in Research on Teaching ConceptionsDr. Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington Dr. Jim Borgford-Parnell is Associate Director and Instructional Consultant at the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching at the University of Washington. He taught design, education-research methods, and adult and higher education theory and pedagogy courses for over 30 years. He has been involved in instructional development for 18 years, and currently does both research and instructional development in engineering education. Jim has

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

are only a few of the many groups that havedevoted an enormous amount of time to bringing communication into the minds of individuals Page 23.142.2who many times relegated writing and speaking to other majors. These efforts have opened up awide range of studies that have pinpointed the need to address communication issues outside ofthe English classroom.Instead of simply complaining about the lack of communication skill demonstrated by engineers,it is important that interested parties in engineering departments investigate the actualdeficiencies and concerns of those affected. These parties are comprised of students, faculty, andemployers

Conference Session

Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

Tagged Divisions

International

2006-1268: BRAIN DRAIN CONCERNS IN TECHNICAL CAPACITY BUILDINGEFFORTSRussel Jones, World Expertise LLC Russel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware. Dr. Jones is President of the Committee on Capacity Building of the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

Session 3575 New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium A/Prof. Rick Homkes, A/Prof. Carlos R. Morales, Mr. Kenneth E. Rowe, A/Prof. Mark L. Smith Purdue UniversityAbstractThree new faculty members team up to relate their experiences moving from industry toacademia. Major topics include teaching, laboratory development, service, publishing, and thebalancing of time among these areas. The teaching area includes incorporating industrialexperiences into classroom preparation and making the transition from industrial presentationsto academic teaching

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sun-Chai Lee

; 3) recruit new facultymembers; 4) organize campus activities; 5) relate faculty’s constructive comments, concerns,and suggestions and criticisms to the ASEE Headquarters staff. Since ASEE campus representatives are the liaison for the Society at the grass-rootslevel, services that they provide to each faculty member and to the ASEE are of ultimateimportance. They can turn away any faculty member from joining the Society and canbecome an obstacle for the Society to accomplish its mission. In contrast, they can create avery positive image of ASEE on campus and increase membership recruitment and retention.Their importance to the Society may be liken to that of foot soldiers to an army platoon. Thesuccess of the Society in achieving its

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Faculty

member, this kind of mentoring was far morehelpful than the formal mentor she was assigned within her department which was not a good fitand “never materialized into anything.”Faculty of color also expressed concern about whether the university administration had asincere commitment to diversity, or was just paying “lip service” to the issue because it is “partof the conversation in terms of being a good university.” These faculty also pointed out thatservice work promoting diversity was consistently undervalued and counted little toward annualappraisals or promotion and tenure decisions. In the words of a woman of color AssistantProfessor: “there is this really interesting dichotomy between institutionalized discourses andwhat happens on the

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Rebecca Kuntz Willits, University of Akron; Linda T. Coats, Mississippi State University; Lakiesha N. Williams, Mississippi State University; Debora F. Rodrigues, University of Houston

Tagged Topics

Faculty

issues of a 'leaky pipeline' (leaving the positionbefore promotion) and 'chilly climate' [12]. Yet women still have higher turnover rates that weredirectly correlated to dissatisfaction with the level of research support, advancementopportunities, and free expression of ideas [13], [14]. Although some female faculty havebenefited from programs such as ADVANCE, the ‘advances' have not been sufficient tofundamentally change underrepresentation in STEM fields [15].The ability to succeed in academia is often confounded by lack of preparation for one of the jobresponsibilities. The completion of the doctorate and/or post-doctoral study should haveprovided the skills needed for conducting research. At most major universities skillsetsstretching beyond

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session II

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University; Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College; Michele C. Deramo, Virginia Tech; Barbara J. Guthrie, Northeastern University; Kathleen Kenney, Northeastern University; Carol B. Muller, Stanford University; Jan Rinehart, Northeastern University; Rania Sanford, Stanford University; Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Faculty

the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (Palgrave/Spring, 2018 forthcoming). Currently, she is at work on two new projects: one that examines the relationships between narratives of black lives and the rise of the novel in Europe in the 18th century, and another project examining the aesthetic translations of the neo-slave narrative genre within contemporary Caribbean cultural production.Dr. Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College Stacy Blake-Beard is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor of Women and Leadership at Simmons Col- lege’s School of Business, where she teaches organizational behavior. She is also Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons. Prior to joining Simmons, Dr

Collection

2020 ERC

Authors

Kelly Hochstetler

Practical Approaches to New Economic Espionage and Export Control Issues Kelly Hochstetler March 11, 20201. Why are we here?2. Sponsor Priorities3. Recent Investigations4. USG Activities5. COGR Framework6. Action Items7. Resources “Some of these foreign governments, corporations, and persons are hostile to the United States and may be seeking to project ‘soft power,’ steal sensitive and proprietary research and development data and other intellectual property, and spread propaganda.” Reed D. Rubinstein

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Murray, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Elizabeth Cudney, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Katie Grantham Lough, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

been written on the importance of mentoring.Countless researchers have explored a variety of issues related to mentoring including how thementor is assigned, individual vs. group mentors2, unique issues for non-majority facultymembers5, and countless others. Understanding how to get assistance in a safe, comfortableenvironment is a key concern for new faculty members facing the challenges of launching a Page 14.1367.2productive career that balances the right level of funded scholarship, effective teaching, andservice. It is our contention, however, if the protégé and mentor do not know the questions andissues they should be discussing, the

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton; Jacob Preston Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

deals with sharing faculty experience developed in this implementation asrecorded in the journal by Instructor B. We also provide suggestions to new engineeringeducators who are interested in trying mastery grading in their courses to help them deal withsome of the challenges encountered.4. Practical Experience:Planning to use mastery grading in this course was initially daunting and there were a variety ofquestions or concerns that the faculty had prior to implementation:  How will students receive this method?  Will problem selections be suitable?  Will administrative problems (e.g. cheating) be exacerbated?  How can faculty answers to homework sets be provided?  How will it affect the time

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chris Migotsky, University of Illinois

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

other’s classrooms. This program offers a chance to break down thosebarriers and meet aspiring new professors from different departments across the college. Forstudents, they rarely get a chance to interact with faculty in a more personal and collegialsetting. The observation program treats students as junior colleagues and values their input.From the pre-observation meeting through the post-observation discussion, the co-observersare provided an opportunity to help others, as well as learn from colleagues’ different teachingapproaches.It is encouraging to see the co-observers were learning from the observation process itself andtruly enjoyed, and learned from, meeting and discussing teaching issues with the CollinsScholars. We are confident

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

out of classes is the most important factor in studentmotivation and involvement”.14 Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keepon working. Knowing a few faculty members well enhances students’ intellectual commitmentand encourages them to think about their own values and future plans”. 14 Encourage Cooperation Among Students“Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, likegood work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated”.14 Working with othersoften increases involvement in learning. Sharing one’s own ideas and responding to other’sreactions improves thinking and deepens understanding. Encourage

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Ibrahim Karaman; Jeff Froyd; Terry Creasy; Winfried Teizer

module focuses on two approaches to manufacturing macroscalesystems using nanoscale technologies: top-down and bottom-up. The third component consistsof two one-hour modules that will be integrated into MEEN 360 Materials and ManufacturingSelection in Design, a junior-level course offered by the Mechanical Engineering department butavailable to all students who have taken the prerequisites. The module expands on the top-downand bottom-up approaches to nanoscale manufacturing and provides students with hands-onlaboratory experience. The fourth component will be a new elective course that will be availableto all engineering and science students who have completed the prerequisite courses. Theelective course, which will be taught by three faculty

Conference Session

Engineering Faculty: Interactions, Influences and Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie H. Magnell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lars Allan Geschwind, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lena B. Gumaelius, KTH, Department of Learning; Anette Jepsen Kolmos, Aalborg University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

more theoretical andtraditional academic curricula.The findings confirm this concern as the study has identified work experience as a significantvariable for the faculty’s view on including work related issues in their teaching. The findingsshow that faculty members with less work experience outside academia are less interested inincluding work related issues in their teaching, while faculty members with more workexperience are more interested in including work related issues in their teaching. This mightbe a serious concern for – at least – many of the European universities as there has been atrend to merge engineering colleges (bachelor level) with universities (master level). At theengineering colleges, many faculty members had a background