Creating Effective Future Faculty in Engineering

这个项目正在开发一个新的创新项目，通过实践训练来培养未来的工程教师，使他们成为更有效的教育者。拟议计划的核心是基于一个新开发的和流行的计划，称为工程研究副修（MES）的努力。该项目创建了有效的教师团队，以培训、指导和评估一组选定的研究生，以便在MES项目中授课。训练有素的教师的密集指导和当前有效教学技术的指导相结合，确保研究生准备成为工程领域的顶尖教育工作者。MES计划的设计和实施旨在为非工程专业的学生提供技术素养。MES计划的主要目标是为非技术背景的学生提供工程和技术的概念和想法。MES使用上下文方法（例如，通过研究手机如何工作来学习电气工程），使工程与非工程专业学生的日常生活相关。这些课程是非数学的，重点是应用程序、概念理解和宏观项目。这些课程没有先决条件，以高中代数为基础。有效和成功的教师作为最好的资源代表参与该计划，提供指导，指导和特别讲座，以帮助加强研究生教育工作者的教学技能，帮助他们成为更有效的教育工作者。该项目模拟了专业知识和培训的有效使用，以确保未来几代训练有素的工程师和非工程师对工程技术有一个了解。

Interdisciplinary(99) This project is developing a new innovative program to develop future faculty in engineering with practical training to be more effective educators. The core of the proposed program is based on efforts in a newly developed and popular program called the Minor in Engineering Studies (MES). The project creates teams of effective faculty to train, mentor, and evaluate a select group of graduate students to teach classes in the MES program. The combination of intensive mentoring by well trained faculty and instruction in current effective teaching techniques ensures that graduate students are poised to become top educators in engineering.The MES program is designed and implemented to provide technological literacy to non-engineering students. The main objective of the MES program is providing the concepts and ideas of engineering and technology to students with non-technical backgrounds. The MES uses a contextual approach (e.g., learning electrical engineering by investigating how a cell phone works)that makes engineering relevant to the daily lives of non-engineering students. The classes are non-mathematical and are focused on applications, conceptual understanding, and big-picture items. The classes have no prerequisite and build on high school algebra. Effective and successful faculty participate in the program as representatives of the best resources in providing guidance, mentorship, and special lectures to help strengthen graduate educators' teaching skills and help them become more effective educators. The project models the effective use of expertise and training to ensure that future generations of well trained engineers and non-engineers have an understanding of engineering technology.