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- Promotion and Tenure
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- 1998 Annual Conference
- Authors
- James R. Alexander, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; Donald D. Harter, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; Jerry W. Samples, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
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- New Engineering Educators (NEE)
, are required to attend an orientation hosted by Page 3.300.2the VPAA. Here, the tone of the university is set by the proclamation that: “Our primaryfunction is undergraduate teaching.” Since contracts are initially for three years, with the renewalprocess beginning in the fall of the second year, the importance of a fast start is emphasized. Thex’s on the time line below indicate the times when dossiers are needed for decisions oncontinuance and tenure. Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 x
- Conference Session
- Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom (1675)
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- 1998 Annual Conference
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- Deborah M. Mechtel, United States Naval Academy
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- New Engineering Educators (NEE)
extended to other courses with students of varying levels of preparation. INTRODUCTIONObjective and Goals: One of the challenges of the Introductory Electrical Engineering course atthe United States Naval Academy is teaching students who have varying levels of priorengineering experience. Prior experience includes: no exposure, electrical engineering courses atother institutions, or military technical courses. This experience mix further diminishes theefficacy of the traditional passive-student listening/active-instructor lecturing format, that hasbeen shown to be the least effective teaching methodology [1]. Therefore, a new variant of thecooperative learning technique was used in two sections of this course