Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Motivation for this Project; How we Structured These Stories; Overview of the Book; References; Developing a Liberative Pedagogy in Engineering; Call to Adventure: Why Can't Engineering be Taught the Way Religion is Taught?; Supernatural Aid: You Have to Read Teaching to Transgress; Belly of the Whale: The Start of a 10-Year Period of Experimentation in Thermodynamics; Supernatural Aid: Learning about a CAREER Award in Engineering Education; Road of Trials: Becoming Comfortable with Critique in Thermodynamics
Refusal of the Call: Becoming a Feminist ActivistStories from My Class: The Montreal Massacre as a Case Study; Road of Trials: Pushback from Students and Colleagues; Road of Trials: Required Service Learning in Thermodynamics; Return Threshold: Protesting a Nuclear Power Plant; Return Threshold: Challenging the Powers that Be; Road of Trials: Creative Solutions to Constraining Policies; Apotheosis: Pushing the Boundaries in any Context; Master of Both Worlds and Freedom to Live: The Importance of Reflection; Additional Resources; Experiencing Vulnerability and Empowerment in Teaching
Call to Adventure: From Childhood to Undergraduate, Becoming an Educator FirstCall to Adventure and Supernatural Aid: Experiences as an Undergraduate TA; Call to Adventure: Experiencing Faculty who Prioritize Research First; Supernatural Aid: Finding My Home; First Threshold: Finding the Right College and Connecting with the Students; Supernatural Aid: Learning from Others; Belly of the Whale: Not Enough Time During the Lecture; Road of Trials: Theory vs. Solving Problems; Road of Trials: Just-in-Time vs. Established Preparation; Road of Trials: Students with Learning Disabilities
Belly of the Whale: A Particularly Challenging SemesterSupernatural Aid and Meeting with the All Knower: A Community of Academic STEM Women; Master of Both Worlds and Freedom to Live: A Balance of Vulnerability and Empowerment; References; From the Armed Services to the Classroom; The Call to Adventure: A True Learner; Refusal of the Call: Deciding to Leave Industry; Road of Trails: Connecting Classroom to Industry; Crossing the First Threshold: Flipping the Classroom; Apotheosis/Freedom to Live: Learning Together; Supernatural Aid: Professional Knowledge
Master of Two Worlds/Return Threshold: Real-World ExamplesFreedom to Live/Ultimate Boone: Constructive Criticism; Supernatural Aid: Faculty Support; Road of Trials: Resisting Change; Freedom to Live: Embracing the Change; Master of Two Worlds: Investing Time; Freedom to Live: Gamification in the Classroom; Engaging Students through Service Learning and Innovation; Call to Adventure: The Ten-Year Plan to Become a Professor with Practical Experience; Crossing the Threshold: Helping Students Connect the Theoretical and Practical
Apotheosis: Seeing an Explosion in the Desire of the Students to Learn
The journey to becoming an exemplary engineering educator is one that is rarely simple and straightforward. Simply being exposed to active learning strategies or innovative pedagogies rarely leads to a transformation of one's own teaching. In this book, we present a collection of stories from exemplary engineering educators that are told in their own voices. These stories are shared to enable readers to immerse themselves in first-person recollections of transformation, involving engineering educators who changed their teaching strategies from the ways that they were taught as engineering undergraduate students to ways that more effectively fostered a conducive learning atmosphere for all students. It is our hope that providing stories of successful engineering educators might stimulate thoughtful and productive self-reflection on ways that we can each change our own teaching. These stories are not simple, linear stories of transformation. Instead, they highlight the complexities and nuances inherent to transforming the way that engineering faculty teach. Through our strategy of narrative storytelling, we hope to inspire future and current engineering educators to embark on their own journeys of teaching transformations. We conclude the book with some lessons that we learned during our readings of these stories, and invite readers to extract lessons of their own