Work in Progress - Preparation Creating Effective Faculty of Engineering: A Technological Literacy Approach

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2011-10-12
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Rover, Diane
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Mina, Mani
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Shelley, Mack
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Political Science
The Department of Political Science has been a separate department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (formerly the College of Sciences and Humanities) since 1969 and offers an undergraduate degree (B.A.) in political science, a graduate degree (M.A.) in political science, a joint J.D./M.A. degree with Drake University, an interdisciplinary degree in cyber security, and a graduate Certificate of Public Management (CPM). In addition, it provides an array of service courses for students in other majors and other colleges to satisfy general education requirements in the area of the social sciences.
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Industrial Design
The Department of Industrial Design seeks to teach students to tap creativity for the design of products, systems or services that meet commercial objectives in business and industry. The Industrial Design Program was established in the Department of Art and Design in 2010. In 2012, the Department of Industrial Design was created.
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This paper reviews the framework and provides new result for the implementation of a new program designed to develop more effective future faculty in engineering. The core of the proposed program will be based on our efforts regarding the recently developed Minor in Engineering Studies (MES). This program will team up effective engineering faculty to train, mentor, and evaluate a select group of graduate students to teach classes in our MES program. The goal is to help the engineering graduate students (the graduate educators) become better communicator and better educators by training non-engineering students in technological literacy classes. This practice is being introduced as a possible venue to develop and enhance the effectiveness of the graduate educators as classroom instructors and that therefore this is the way to train effective future faculty in engineering. This paper will introduce new results, and describe the new findings and developments in this project. In this paper we introduce the conceptual framework of the MES and the results of the early implementation of this study.

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This conference proceedings was published as Mani Mina, Diane T. Rover, and Mack Shelley, Work in Progress - Preparation Creating Effective Faculty of Engineering: A Technological Literacy Approach, pp. S1F-1 to S1F-2 in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2011). Rapid City, SD: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2011).978-1-61284-469-5. Posted with permission.

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