Teaching Engineering

This book is organized to start with specific, practical teaching applications and then lead to more general psychological theories. The advantage of this order is that people tend to learn from specifics to generalities that is, inductively. The disadvantage of this approach is that we may want to use some concepts to explain the advantages of particular teaching methods before the concepts have been explored. Content: • Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Teaching Engineering 2. Efficiency 3. Designing Your First Class 4. Courses: Objectives And Textbooks 5. Problem Solving and Creativity 6. Lectures 7. Nontechnological Alternatives to Lecture 8. Teaching with Technology 9. Design and Laboratory 10. One-To-One Teaching and Advising 11. Testing, Homework, and Grading 12. Student Cheating, Discipline, and Ethics 13. Psychological Type and Learning 14. Models of Cognitive Development: Piaget and Perry 15. Learning Theories 16. Evaluation of Teaching 17. Professional Concerns • Appendix A: Obtaining an Academic Position • Appendix B: Sample Teaching Course Outline • Index