(225b) Incorporating Teaching Methods from the ASEE Summer School during My First Year on the Job
AIChE Annual Meeting
2018
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting
Education Division
How Summer School Improved My Teaching
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 3:48pm to 4:06pm
I attended the ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School before my first semester as faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. In Fall 2017, I taught Chemical Reactor Design and Analysis to a class of 70 students. Several methods from the summer school were incorporated into my teaching, including the use of ânotes with gaps.â Based on course survey data, 74% of students strongly agreed that the course materials were helpful to them, compared to 43% of students from previous semesters. In Spring 2018, I taught the same course again to a class of 80 students. During this semester, I have also incorporated more interaction into my lectures by using conceptual questions from LearnChemE and the AIChE Concept Warehouse. During the middle of lecture, students are given a chance to discuss the questions before being polled for their answers. In this talk, student feedback from both the Fall 2017 and Fall 2018 semesters will be discussed.