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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INITATIVES
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The core goals of the Faculty Development area are the creation of a culture for change at Gateway institutions in which faculty members work with colleagues within schools or across the coalition to continually improve their educational methods and their students' learning. We encourage the creation of a community of learners, involving faculty and students including inter-departmental and inter-school collaborations. Approaches that may help achieve the core goals include use of classroom assessment techniques, changes to reward structure for faculty, and testing new teaching techniques.
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There are 6 projects in this section.
1. College Teaching in Engineering Syllabus
2. Engineering Design for Freshman
3. 'Gateway Works' CD: The People and Products
4. Helping New Faculty Succeed
5. Survey of Gateway Freshman Design Materials
6. Teaching & Learning Workshop
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College Teaching in Engineering Syllabus
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| Organization: Ohio State University |
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The current emphasis at Ohio State is on Faculty Development because permanent change in the college programs will only occur as the faculty change. The syllabus provided summarizes a course taken by graduate students who intend to teach Engineering as faculty at the university Level.
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Engineering Design for Freshman
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| Contact Name: R. Weggel |
Organization: Drexel University |
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This text describes an engineering design program taken by freshmen at Drexel University. The text documents how the program is conducted, graded and coordinated with the humanities program so that others might conduct a similar program, either adopting the Drexel program or adapting it to their special needs. The design program is part of a larger sequence of three courses termed Engineering Design & Laboratory (ED&L;) I, II & III which includes other design experiences as well as computer and physical laboratories. The design program, started as a component of Drexel�s E4 program, has been offered since 1989 in one form or another. It has changed over the years as experience has been gained and continues to evolve. Other schools have explored Drexel�s approach and this text has been supported by the Gateway Coalition to provide documentation and support for these efforts.
A unique element of Drexel�s freshman design program is its close ties with the freshman humanities courses, HUM106, 107 and 108. Humanities faculty are fully apprised of ED&L; design program requirements since they are involved in formulating them and have adapted their humanities courses to support students in the design course. Design is a creative process, not unlike creative writing. Research, clear thinking, exploration of alternatives and revision are common to both good engineering design and good writing. Recognition of this has led to a symbiotic relationship between the humanities courses and the design element of ED&L.; Chapter 2, by Marijo Makufka, provides a description of the humanities content of the design experience.
Chapter 3, authored by James Mitchell, gives an overview of how design courses might be structured along with the resources needed to conduct them.
To view full text click on the link below which will take you to the text location in the "Curriculum Development and Implementation/Freshman Sophomore Experience/Engineering Up Front" section of this web site. When completed, use the "BACK" command of your browser to then return to this "Faculty Development" section of the web site.
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'Gateway Works' CD: The People and Products
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| Contact Name: V. Arms |
Organization: Drexel University |
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Final version of CD on Gateway works. Versions for PC (Windows 95 and 3.1) and for Mac.
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Helping New Faculty Succeed
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| Organization: Ohio State University |
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This presentation was given at Ohio State University's conference on freshman engineering. Bruce Litchfield from the University of Illinois discussed a faculty development program targeted to help new faculty become successful.
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| File Type: MS PowerPoint |
File Size: 324 Kb |
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Survey of Gateway Freshman Design Materials
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| Contact Name: R. Weggel |
Organization: Drexel University |
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Survey of Gateway Freshman Design Materials. This report was prepared in preparation for the workshop on Engineering Design Course for Freshman. It is a summary of the course content and implementation of each school's Gateway sponsored Freshman program
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Teaching & Learning Workshop
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| Contact Name: James Stice |
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology |
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This booklet was handed out to participants at a workshop given by Jim Stice (University of Texas) to NJIT faculty on April 20. The workshop was intended to provide an introduction/review to several important components of effective teaching. Included were discussions of writing instructional objectives and of testing and grading. The material on testing provided tips for faculty on making up reliable tests, and also gave tips for students on taking tests. Participants also completed the Kolb Learning Style Inventory to see what their own preferred learning styles were, and the implications for their own teaching were explored. Finally, have you ever worried that your students were memorizing the material instead of really learning it? Probably their analytical skills need to be strengthened. A session on teaching problem solving skills dealt with ways to teach them to become better problem solvers.
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File Size: 3270 Kb |
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