Creating Effective Future Faculty in Engineering

跨学科（99）这个项目正在开发一个新的创新计划，以发展未来的教师在工程与实践培训，成为更有效的教育工作者。该计划的核心是基于一个新开发的和流行的程序称为工程研究（MES）的未成年人的努力。该项目创建了有效的教师团队来培训，指导和评估一组选定的研究生在MES计划中授课。由训练有素的教师和当前有效的教学技术的指导密集的指导相结合，确保研究生准备成为工程的顶级教育工作者。MES计划的设计和实施，以提供技术素养非工程专业的学生。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，通过研究手机的工作原理来学习电子工程），这使得工程与非工程专业学生的日常生活息息相关。课程是非数学的，重点是应用程序，概念理解和大图片项目。这些课程没有先决条件，以高中代数为基础。有效和成功的教师参与该计划，作为提供指导，导师和特别讲座的最佳资源的代表，以帮助加强研究生教育工作者的教学技能，并帮助他们成为更有效的教育工作者。该项目示范有效利用专业知识和培训，以确保未来几代训练有素的工程师和非工程师了解工程技术。

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.