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Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville

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Voices: Academic Careers for a New Generation. American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC.4. Jackson, A., Chin, R., Coddington, C., Petersen, P., Hamid, F. 2007. “Mentoring New Faculty: How Much, How Often, and How?” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI.5. Jordan, W., Elmore, B., Bradley, W. “Mentoring New Faculty: What Works and What Does Not Work.” 2006. Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL.6. Yimin, D., Lei, X. 2003. “An End to Business as Usual?” Science. Vol. 302. Oct. 3, 2003. p. 43.7. Gerhart, A.L., Gerhart, P.M., Fletcher, R.W. 2008. “Comparison of

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor

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AC 2009-2050: EVALUATING ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION IN APERSONALIZED SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION-BASED CURRICULUMSrikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin Srikanth Tadepalli is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. After recieving his BS in Mechanical Engineering from India, he moved to UT where obtained his MSE in Manufacturing Systems Engineering specializing in Design for Manufacturing. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant and as an Assistant Instructor for the Computers and Programming course over a period of 3 years at The University of Texas at Austin and was awarded "The H. Grady Rylander Longhorn Mechanical Engineering Club Excellence in Teaching

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Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter Schilling, MSOE

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Doctoral Fellowship, as well as awards from the Toledo and Southeastern Michigan Section IEEE. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ASEE. At MSOE, he coordinates courses in Software Quality Assurance, Software Verification, Software Engineering Practices, as well as teaching Embedded Systems Software and introductory programming courses. Page 14.1338.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Using Your Grade Book to Store Course Rubric InformationAbstractThe usage of rubrics has been greatly shown to aid in consistent grading, faster grading,and

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Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Mentor Characteristics1. My current mentor is what I want; he is easy to talk to, helps me address my weaknesses, and always helps me feel good about my abilities.2. Someone with personal experience in the area that I am working. Someone with time, patience, and understanding. Someone who realizes that if plan A doesn’t work, go for plan B and if that doesn’t work wing it – i.e., a person who is flexible and reasonable.3. He/she must be tenured (possibly more than once) so he/she can guide me towards tenure. He should have a strong research program first and foremost. If his/her research interests are close to mine that is a bonus but primarily I need guidance on how to start-up a program with everything else

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Tricks of the Trade I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Hinton, Utah State University

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mode l that can be used b y bo th faculty membersand administrators to provide a year-by-year understanding of the research infrastructure that hasbeen created by the faculty member. The basic assumption of this mode l is that the role of afaculty member is to de velop a research program that will allow them to be come an internationalexpert in their field of research. This implies that during the pre-tenure process each facultymember needs to develop a personal research infrastructure that will be able to support thecreation, development and marketing of their ideas and intellectual property. Not only do theyhave to create and develop new and nove l ideas, they ha ve to sell them to their peers! By thetime the faculty members go up for tenure

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Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Mia Markey, University of Texas, Austin; Wonsoon Park, University of Texas, Austin

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storage. There are three broad strategies to consider: spreadsheets,a simplified Database Management System (DBMS) with a graphical user interface (GUI), or anenterprise-grade DBMS. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages that should beweighed carefully before data are even collected.Spreadsheet software packages, such as Microsoft Excel, are designed for the storage andstatistical analysis of small datasets. Advantages include (a) most spreadsheet packages arerelatively inexpensive and typically already installed on the faculty member’s computer system,(b) many engineering faculty are already familiar with the basic functions of commonspreadsheet software packages, (c) no computer programming skills are required, (d) manypackages are

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Tricks of the Trade I

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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, Boulder, CO, November 2003. 9. Courter, S.S., Freitag, C., and McEniry, M., “Ways of Knowing: Ways of Practice,” ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO, November 2003.10. Mitchell, J. E., “Time Professors Spend Improving their Teaching,” ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Savannah, GA, October 2004, S1C-6 – S1C-8.11. Miller, R.L., Streveler, R. A., Nelson, M. A., Geist, M. R., and Olds, B. M., “Concept Inventories Meet Cognitive Psychology: Using Beta Testing as s Mechanism for Identifying Student Misconceptions,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Portland, OR, October 2005, 18 pages.12. Davis, J.S., “Strategic Planning

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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presented, and include:1. “Set Your Priorities.” Page 14.835.52. “Place Priorities on Your Calendar.”3. “Allow a Little Time for the Unexpected.”4. “Do Projects One at a Time.” a. “Organize each project in a folder.” b. “Itemize all that needs to be done.” c. “Prioritize in order of importance.” d. “Emphasize only one project at a time.”5. “Organize Your Workspace.”6. “Work According to Your Temperament.”7. “Use Your Driving Time for Light Work and Growth.”8. “Develop Systems That Work for You.”9. “Always Have a Plan for those Minutes Between Meetings.”10. “Focus on Results, Not the Activity.”Wankat and Oreovicz4 devote an

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Tricks of the Trade II

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Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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meeting, you can ask the TA for any feedback that (s)he isgetting from the students. This is important, because students are often more willing to discusstheir difficulties with a TA than they are to discuss them with you.4. ContractsExperience indicates that few instructors enter into contracts with their TAs, but it is a goodpractice, because it makes explicit the expectations, and therefore makes it more likely that thegoals will be met. Appendix A and Appendix B contain two sample TA contracts. Thoughneither is from engineering (they are from Sociology and Hospitality & Tourism Management,respectively), both are indicative of what could be included in a contract for an engineeringcourse. Note that both of them stress the importance of

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Tricks of the Trade I

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Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank Elizabeth J. Mills and Lisa Berman for their editorial review of thisarticle.References [1] R. Boice, “Classroom incivilities,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 37, pp. 453–486, August 1996. [2] L. B. Nilson, Teaching at Its Best. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2 ed., 2003. [3] J. M. Braxton and A. E. Bayer, eds., Addressing Faculty and Student Classroom Impropri- eties, vol. 99 of New Directions for Teaching and Learning. San Francisco, CA: Wiley Peri- odicals, Inc., Fall 2004. [4] S. Brown, “Civility in the classroom,” http://www.tc3.edu/instruct/sbrown/ fac/civilbib.htm, 2004. [5] P. J. Morrissette, “Reducing incivility in the university/college classroom,” International

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Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Engelken, Arkansas State University

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involved, with NEE typically feeling less concerned about these changes than SEE, and sometimes naturally a bit defensive about discussions of such. The perceived/debated changes typically fall under one or more of the following categories: A. High school preparation less rigorous and thorough, and sometimes more “politically correct”, than in the past. Page 14.293.8 B. Students too used to an overly affluent and leisurely lifestyle, with an associated compromise of work habits and work ethic, including those associated with studying. C. As implied by 1.-5. above, students more skilled and comfortable with, and

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Tricks of the Trade I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Generalized Approach to Faculty Development: The Tenure Years”, 9th InternationalConference on Engineering Education, San Juan, Puerto Rico.3. Wheeless, A., Blaser, B., Litzler, E., (2007) “Mentoring of Graduate Students in STEM: Perceptions andOutcomes,” 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, Honolulu, Hawaii.4. Donnelly, A., (2007) “The South East Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program: GraduateMinority Retention and Preparedness for Academic Careers,” 2007 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference Proceedings, Honolulu, Hawaii.6. Phillips, J., Murphy, T., (2005) “Mentoring Graduate Students in Engineering Education Through TeamTeaching,” 2005 American Society for

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Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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ofteaching: popular myth, bias, validity, or innocent bystanders? Journal of Educational Psychology 92:1 (March2000), pp. 202–228.[12] Centra, John A. Will teachers receive higher student evaluations by giving higher grades and less course work?Research in Higher Education 44:5 (October 2003), pp. 495–518.[13] Eiszler, Charles F. College students’ evaluations of teaching and grade inflation. Research in HigherEducation 43:4 (August 2002), pp. 483–500..[14] Griffin, B. W. Grading leniency, grade discrepancy, and student ratings of instruction. Contemporary Educ.Psychology 29:4 (October 2004), pp. 410–425.[15] Angelo, Thomas A. and Cross, K. Patricia, Classroom Assessment Techniques, 2ed., Jossey-Bass, 1993

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Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Taber, National Academy of Engineering; Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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willevaluate the selected metrics. This paper summarizes the committee report.IntroductionScholarship of teaching [1] is often compared with the scholarships of discovery and synthesis.Shulman [2] further categorized the scholarship of teaching as discovery scholarship within theeducational domain [3] and scholarly teaching as teaching that (a) focuses on learning outcomesand teaching practices, (b) originates with knowledge of pedagogy and course content, and (c)includes self-reflection, discussions with peers, and participation in peer evaluation [4].When engineering faculty members attend to the different ways in which students learn, thestudents become more engaged and also learn more course content and connections betweenengineering concepts

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Baer, Georgia Institute of Technology

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for a brief period or span several years. They can change from time to time. Notevery class will be ideally suited to include an information literacy component, but greatpartnerships can emerge from unlikely situations.References[1] Rader, Hannelore B. 1999. "Faculty-librarian collaboration in building the curriculum for the millennium: the US experience." IFLA Journal 25, no. 4: 209-213. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts.[2] Tucker, James Cory, Jeremy Bullian, and Matthew C. Torrence. 2003. "Collaborate or Die! Collection Development in Today's Academic Library." Reference Librarian 40, no. 83/84: 219-236.[3] Oseghale, Osagie. 2008. “Faculty Opinion as Collection Evaluation Method: A Case Study of

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Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Millman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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you fortheir own gain since your project could provide them with an authentic setting for their ownresearch agenda.Recommendation #6—Explain your educational initiative thoroughly in your proposal.For many educational initiatives, you should follow the process laid out by Wiggins andMcTighe in “Understanding by Design”10 by specifying: (a) What are the outcomes you want to achieve? (b) How will success in these outcomes be measured? (c) What experiences will facilitate this student success?In your proposal, you should answer the basic “5W’s and an H” of any good news article: ≠ Who: Who is the intended audience of your new initiative? Be as specific as you can be: What level students or teachers? In what disciplines

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Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Rachid Manseur, State University of New York, Oswego; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

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identified here (for instance, on a scale from 0 to 10).The authors believe that the results of this pilot study could be replicated and refined on alarger scale for more general confirmation of the present conclusions. Page 14.516.125. References1. Lang, J. W. B., and M. Kersting. “Regular feedback from student ratings of instruction:Do college teachers improve their ratings in the long run?” Instructional Science, vol. 35,nr. 3, May 2007. 187-205.2. Gillmore, G. M. “Drawing Inferences about Instructors: The Inter-Class Reliability ofStudent Ratings of Instruction”. OEA Report 00-02, 2000.http://www.washington.edu/oea/pdfs/reports/OEAReport0002.pdf3

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Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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John Gumaer, Central Washington University

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AC 2009-978: DO'S AND DON'TS FOR RECRUITING ENGINEERING ORTECHNOLOGY FACULTYJohn Gumaer, Central Washington University John A. Gumaer is an associate professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Central Washington University. He earned a MSEE from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSEE from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a registered professional engineer and has worked in commercial hardware and software development. He has participated in numerous faculty searches as either a committee member or a candidate. Page 14.497.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009

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Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station; Luisa Deckard, Texas Engineering Experiment Station

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AC 2009-840: SUPPORT FOR FACULTY WRITING PROPOSALS TO NEWINVESTIGATOR PROGRAMSLaurie Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station Dr. Laurie Garton is a Senior Research Development Associate with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station Office of Strategic Research Development. She has BS, ME, and PhD degrees in civil engineering (environmental) from Texas A&M University and was an engineering faculty member before joining TEES in 1999 where she has worked on technical research project grants related to interdisciplinary environmental themes. Currently she leads the TEES New Faculty Initiative targeting grants such as the NSF CAREER awards for untenured engineering faculty

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Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed Moaveni, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Karen Chou, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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AC 2009-2069: PERSPECTIVES ON "CAREER AND FAMILY" ALTERNATIVESFOR FEMALE ENGINEERING FACULTYSaeed Moaveni, Minnesota State University, Mankato Saeed Moaveni is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Chair of Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Moaveni has over 20 years of professional experience and is a registered P.E. in New York. He is the author of two popular text books in finite element method and engineering fundamentals.Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato Deborah K. Nykanen is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her teaching, research and professional experience

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University

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AC 2009-753: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (PPF) SHEETS FOR IMPROVEDCOMMUNICATION OF LESSON OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTATIONSTanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University Page 14.945.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Past, Present, and Future (PPF) Sheets for Improved Communication of Lesson Objectives and ExpectationsAbstractSome of the major challenges facing new faculty in the area of instruction deal with how tocommunicate the objectives and expectations of a particular course to the students in the bestpossible manner. Questions related to students’ focus on key points of each particular lecture,increasing student engagement in the

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Tricks of the Trade I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Stephan Durham, University of Colorado, Denver

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an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Denver. His research interests include pervious concrete, concrete in wastewater applications, and innovative highway construction materials. Page 14.959.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Plain Advice For New Engineering Faculty On How To Manage Classes and Motivate StudentsIntroductionTo be a new engineering faculty member is to have a very tough job. In most cases, you justfinished your dissertation after several years of sweat and toil, and suddenly, with hardly anypause, you find yourself

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Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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AC 2009-1115: COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND STUDENTEVALUATIONS: CAN BOTH BE IMPROVED?Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Prusak is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. He teaches courses in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology programs. He has over 10 years of international industrial and research experience in the fields of precision manufacturing, design of mechanical and manufacturing systems and metrology. Dr. Prusak received M.S. Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Krakow and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from

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Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

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AC 2009-785: PROMOTING FACULTY DEVELOPMENT USING INDUSTRYCONSULTING ACTIVITIESRalph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet Page 14.992.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Promoting Faculty Development Using Industry Consulting ActivitiesAbstractFaculty development is a major concern for faculty, academic administrators and students.Through experience, the author has discovered that an important source of faculty developmentis industry consulting and training activities. From the individual faculty member’s standpoint,consulting can provide real world, work related experience and enhance teaching skills. Also,consulting can improve the faculty member’s expertise in