assistants. At many universities, teaching assistants are employed to lead discussionsections, provide grading assistance, and provide laboratory assistance. The purpose of thisreport is twofold: 1) To describe perspectives of engineering teaching assistants on incorporatingnon-traditional teaching methods and 2) To propose methods that minimize the perceivedbarriers reported by engineering teaching assistants.An online survey was chosen as the assessment method to describe perspectives and practice ofengineering teaching assistants. The use of surveys for assessment in engineering education is a Page 24.1372.2common practice.4 This method was
TAs can useto help motivate students independent of the level of control they have over course design. Wedescribe how engineering teaching assistants can promote motivation within the context of theirtypical teaching duties: facilitating discussion sections, holding office hours, providing feedback(grading), assisting students in laboratory settings, and creating problem sets and solutions. In this section, we particularly try to connect each tip to the theory or theories that justifyit. The Appendix provides a quick reference guide to connect the teaching tips with the varioustheories. We encourage TAs to not just enact tips without understanding why those tips areimportant, but rather understand how each action or attitude can help
waterresources engineering curriculum. Both laboratory and lecture courses were assessed withstudents of varying grade levels. Better understanding of student and teaching assistantexpectations can provide valuable insight towards the design of graduate teaching assistanttraining and support programs to help foster a more beneficial and positive experience for boththe teaching assistants and their students.IntroductionIn addition to their coursework and research responsibilities many graduate students are giventhe role of teaching assistant (TA). Although the exact responsibilities of the TA role can varywidely across departments and courses, instruction of students via large lectures, small groups, orlaboratory settings is an included facet of the role
;M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory Scott Tran is an undergraduate research assistant at the Texas A&M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory. Expected to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in May 2018.Dr. John Valasek, Texas A&M University John Valasek is the Thaman Professor of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and Director, Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS), Director, Vehicle Systems & Control Labora- tory, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and member of the Honors Faculty at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in Aircraft Design, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Modern Control of Aerospace Sys- tems, Vehicle Management Systems, and
implementation of teaching/learning at the college level; e.g. be knowledgeable of key organizations supporting engineering instruction like ASEE and ABET, general publications in education, and instructional resources; e.g. Ohio State Center for Advancement of Teaching (formerly Office for Faculty and TA Development).Obj. 2 - Students will be aware of the curriculum issues related to engineering education specifically; e.g. accreditation requirements, laboratory development and design instruction.Obj. 3 - Students will be able to recognize the options for types of instructional approaches to engineering materials and have understanding of their appropriate application.Obj. 4 - Students will be able to implement
. Page 23.1155.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Teaching Your First Large Lecture: Surviving with Attentive and Engaged StudentsAbstractThe usual and customary appointment for a graduate teaching assistant or even new instructor inengineering is a recitation, workshop, laboratory or small classroom of typically 30 students orless. Hence, most practical advice for promoting attentiveness and engagement centers on thattype of environment. In those environments, individual student-instructor interaction is easilypossible in order to keep students attentive and engaged. Although less common, some newinstructors are assigned to teach large lectures (>75
decisions. Our results also show that despite a perceived lack of autonomy, some GTAscontinue to act autonomously when faced with decision-making in the classroom. These resultscan help inform faculty as they seek to support GTAs in the GTAs‟ teaching responsibilities.IntroductionFor many years, graduate students have served as laboratory assistants and graders forundergraduate engineering courses. Due to recent efforts to increase hands-on activities inengineering education, many institutions are now also employing graduate teaching assistants(GTAs) as course instructors and lecturers 1-3. While researchers have studied GTAs in thehumanities and physical sciences, little is known about GTA experiences in engineering. Thepurpose of this study is to
Paper ID #9623Effective Educational Methods for Teaching Assistants in a First-Year Engi-neering MATLAB R Coursejoshua jude heegKyle Flenar, University of CincinnatiJordan Alexander RossMr. Taylor Okel, University of Cincinnati Taylor Okel is a Computer Engineering major at the University of Cincinnati. A sophomore at the time of this paper, he had already worked on another research paper, while maintaining a high grade point average and managing to stay active in the community through service projects.Mr. Tejas Abhijit Deshpande, University of Cincinnati Sophomore at the University of CincinnatiDr. Gregory Warren Bucks
computerengineering courses. Within these classes are permutations of 12 unique TAs and 7 uniqueinstructors. From this dataset, we are able to analyze whether factors such as varying experiencelevels and TA roles (such as discussion mediation versus laboratory instruction) affect differentcomponents of their students’ grades. When analyzing our dataset we sought to answer three basic questions: First, do TAs producestatistically significant differences in the grades of their students when compared to other TAs inthe same course? Second, if there are differences, what components of the assessment processare affected? Finally, is there a correlation between the amount of previous teaching experiencea TA has and the grade outcomes of that TA’s students? We
Paper ID #20451Tricks of the Trade: Navigating teaching opportunities in the research-basedengineering PhDAna Cristina Estrada, University of Virginia Ana Estrada is a PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from Rice University in 2013. She currently works on computa- tional modeling of post-myocardial infarction cardiac growth under the mentorship of Dr. Jeff Holmes.Dr. Lindsey Taylor Brinton, The Ohio State University Lindsey Brinton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University in the laboratory of Dr. John Byrd. She earned
your college, department, and organizational outreach programs for opportunitiesto serve as a volunteer educator to young students and/or K12 educators. This could range fromoff-campus visits to conduct demonstrations or design activities in public school classrooms,providing tours to student groups on-campus in your laboratory, leading topic-specificengineering modules for on-campus summer camps, or supporting local/state-wide workshopsthat teach educators how to incorporate engineering in their K12 instruction. Research-intensiveinstitutions, especially those funded as a land-grant, have a strong commitment to the communityand often have College of Engineering outreach programs that serve these populations.There may be fellowships available
Paper ID #12516Graduate Biomedical Engineers Teaching Interdisciplinary Science throughDesign at the K12 LevelMs. Jaclyn Kuspiel Murray, University of GeorgiaDr. Barbara Ann Crawford Page 26.824.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Graduate Biomedical Engineers Teaching Interdisciplinary Design at the K-12 LevelAbstractThe purpose of this study is to determine how engineering doctoral fellows enact reform-basedmethods in secondary science classrooms. As engineering fellows near
(1), 21-51.3. Fairweather, J. (2008). Linking evidence and promising practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education. A Status Report for The National Academies National Research Council Board of Science Education.4. Linenberger, K., Slade, M.C., Addis, E.A., Elliott, E.R., Mynhardt, G., & Raker, J.R. (2014). Training the foot soldiers of inquiry: Development and evaluation of a graduate teaching assistant learning community. Journal of College Science Teaching, 44(1), 97-107.5. Bohrer, K., Ferrier, A., Johnson, D., & Miller, K. (2007). TA training workshops. In K.L. Chase (Ed.), Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) Proceedings, 29, 67
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Examining the Changing Perceptions of Graduate Students’ Role as Teaching Assistant with Online and Hybrid Labs during COVID-19” (Instruction)Abstract The transition from traditionally face-to-face “in-person” courses to hybrid/onlinelaboratory courses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how theselabs are delivered in the mechanical engineering curriculum at Clemson University. This paperseeks to capture the graduates’ and undergraduates’ changing perceptions of the roles andresponsibilities that graduate laboratory assistants (GLAs) have in the delivery of course materialwithin the
literature reviews, instrument development and validation, and person- ality theory. As a Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program, he is heavily involved with developing and teaching laboratory content, leading the maintenance of the in-house robotics controller, and managing the development of the robotics project.Dr. Krista M. Kecskemety, The Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State Uni- versity in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Affordable Lab Kit for Controls Education Page 24.143.2 Affordable Lab Kit for Controls EducationThis research developed a modular, portable, and affordable laboratory kit and accompanyingcurriculum for two controls courses in the General Engineering Department. The objective is todesign each kit to be assembled for under $100 while replicating the educational functionality ofa lab bench in a university controls laboratory. This will also allow older analog computers to beupdated with newer technology that is more representative of what is currently used in industry1.This hardware kit will replace expensive equipment with an
Paper ID #20516EEGRC Poster: Experimental Design and Measurement of Internal and Ex-ternal Flow Convection Coefficient Using 3D Printed GeometriesMr. Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and teaches part-time at two other colleges. He has conducted research related to Arctic Electric Vehicles. He participated and advised several student academic competition teams for several years. His team won 1st place in the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge
Paper ID #20677Writing in the Disciplines for Engineers: Implementation and Assessment ofStudent LearningDr. Jordan E. Trachtenberg, Rice University Jordan Trachtenberg received her PhD in bioengineering from Rice University. She has been passion- ate about STEM education and outreach throughout her undergraduate and graduate studies. Her broad teaching interests include teaching K-12 outreach programs in 3D printing and computer-aided design, mentoring undergraduate laboratory and design teams, and organizing graduate professional development opportunities in science communication. She works on collaborative pedagogical
collaborates with faculty on the Scholarship of Teach- ing and Learning through various research projects. Particular current areas of collaboration include instructional design, evaluation, engineering education and learner support. In addition, Dr. Jackson is an Affiliate Faculty in Penn State’s Higher Education Department.Prof. Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University Dr. Karl R. Haapala is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, where he directs the Industrial Sustainability Laboratory and is Assistant Director of the OSU Industrial Assessment Center. He received his B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering, and his Ph.D. in
processing research include the design and modeling of intelligent controls, Kalman filters, and automation. Engi- neering education research includes curriculum and laboratory development for these concepts.Mrs. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Anastasia Rynearson is a Purdue Doctoral Fellow pursuing a degree in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her teaching experience includes outreach activities at various age levels as well as a position as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Kanazawa Technical College. Her current research interests focus on early P-12
proposal shell’ which describes the problem from my working point of view.”[9].Mentors of the undergraduate students in some research laboratories:Undergraduates in engineering are not just confined in class lectures and teaching labs. They enjoysummer internship in several national research and development (R & D) laboratories, like Sandia,Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley, etc. spread out throughout USA. Dr. Jeffrey Estes of PacificNorthwest National Laboratory, notes, “Connecting students to the world of science and technology thatexists beyond the academic classroom holds great potential for helping the students decide on and pursuea career pathway. Whether that path leads to a career in research, teaching, business, or a
AC 2011-1023: INNOVATIVE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN NANOENGI-NEERINGAjit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ajit D. Kelkar is a Professor and Chairman of Nanoengineering department at Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He also serves as an As- sociate Director for the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures and is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro. For the past twenty five years he has been working in the area of performance evaluation and modeling of poly- meric composites and ceramic matrix composites. He has worked with several federal laboratories in the
program (SISTEM), portable lab equipment, and Summer teacher training programs.Ms. Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Erica Marti completed her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She holds a Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Education from UNLV and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to graduate studies, Erica joined Teach for America and taught high school chemistry in Las Vegas. While her primary research involves water and wastewater, she has strong interests in engineering education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education.Mr. Erdogan Kaya, University
Laboratories at a Doctoral/Research University. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Vol. 41, No. 3.7. Roehrig, G.H. & Luft, J.A. (2003). Graduate Teaching Assistants and Inquiry-Based Instruction: Implications for Graduate Teaching Assistant Training. Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 80, No.10.8. Shannon, D.M., Twale, D.J., & Moore, M.S. (1998). TA Teaching Effectiveness: The Impact of Training and Teaching Experience. The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 69, No. 4.9. Verleger, M.A., & Diefes-Dux, H.A. (2013). A Teaching Assistant Training Protocol for Improving Feedback on Open-Ended Engineering Problems in Large Classes. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Atlanta, GA.10. Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A. (2009
RPs indicated that these interactions were not the same as pre-COVID campuslearning environments, they appreciated the limited, but real-time interactions with professorsand peers. Nevertheless, they expressed that it was very challenging to even ask questions inthese virtual teaching platforms. An RP noted that ‘I think in the class, you can actually see eachother and have a conversation about what you’re asking and what you’re trying to say ... you’rekind of, like you ask a question, but its 30 to 40 other students who have questions.” RPs alsomissed the hands-on experiences of STEM learning. Considering that most STEM students arevisual and tactile learners, the lack of hands-on STEM laboratory projects in synchronouscourses negatively
University of Texas at Austin and West Point respectively. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering stu- dent leadership development, and social network analysis. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Catalyzing Engineering Student Identity Development through an Independent Design ProjectAbstract This paper examines the engineering identity development of an undergraduateengineering student through an auto-ethnographic look at an independent design project advisedby a senior faculty member (co-author) at the United States
engineering course, Fundamentals of Soil Mechanicsand Foundation Engineering (FSMFE). The course was 6 credit-hour seminar that was taught inan asynchronous, fully online format over 11 weeks, and a prerequisite in the Geotechnical trackof the Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) program. The content of this course aligned well withboth my professional background and my previous teaching experience with a traditional lectureand laboratory courses covering similar topics. At the time, however, I had never developed ortaught an asynchronous online course and was eager to find out more about working within thismedium. Therefore, for the 2011 spring semester I registered for both the CAP and AIDEcourses, hoping that together they would provide a
Paper ID #29948Paper: Exploring How Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Students SpendTheir Time Inside and Outside of the Classroom (WIP)Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech Alaa Abdalla is a first year PhD student in Engineering Education with a background in Mechanical Engineering. Her primary research interests are culture and identity, teaching and learning, and design of learning spaces. Her ultimate career goal is to bring together engineering, education, and design thinking.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to
classroom spaces, active learning, responsive teaching, and elementary school engineering teachers.Mr. Magel P. Su, University of Michigan Magel P. Su is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S.E in materials science and engineering and a minor in chemistry from the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he was a member of the Ultrafast Laser - Material Interac- tion Laboratory and the Engineering Honors Program. He also served as an instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Mr. Max William Blackburn
Paper ID #16779Investigating the Influence of Micro-Videos used as a Supplementary CourseMaterialMr. Ryan L Falkenstein-Smith, Syracuse University Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University whose research interest range from carbon sequestration to engineering education.Mr. Jack S Rossetti, Syracuse University I am a second year Ph. D. student. Research interests: How students learn How to make teaching more effective and engagingMr. Michael Garrett, Syracuse University Michael Garrett is an incoming graduate student at Syracuse University. Throughout his undergraduate career he developed an interest in