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* Senior design course | * Senior design course | ||
* Increased number of UROPs looking for experience in BE labs | * Increased number of UROPs looking for experience in BE labs | ||
* Questions to consider: | |||
**How reasonable is/ was your TAing requirement (time commitment, work load)? Should the undergraduate TAing assignments be assigned differently? | |||
**Do you enjoy working with the undergraduates? | |||
**Do the instructors adequately and clearly cover material in class? Do you have to spend a lot of time outside of class explaining and clarifying | |||
concepts? | |||
**Would you like to be more involved in developing the undergraduate classes or have you had the oppurtunity to help develope them? | |||
**What do you think is missing from the undergraduate cirriculum? | |||
**Do you think the undergraduate classes will detract from the graduate experience and how? | |||
*Summarized survey results: | |||
**TAing Experience | |||
***Majoring of students found it valuable(~4) | |||
***Suggestions to avoid increased or unequal responsibilities | |||
****Pay TA’s | |||
****Add graders | |||
****Add undergrads as TA’s | |||
****Formalized guidelined for TAing | |||
***Suggestion – teach graduate students how to teach to better fill the need for the undergrad major | |||
***Students split on TAing two terms (2.64), most people would be willing to TA for additional compensation (3.32) | |||
**Students interested in being associate advisors for undergrads (2.97) | |||
**Positive part of their education (3.21) and want to be involved in learning about what is going on (3.87) and being more involved in the development process (3.76) | |||
**Participation in undergraduate development via: | |||
***A session for all interested parties at the yearly retreat | |||
***Perhaps graduate students could have access to the evaluations of students in the undergraduate courses that they TA. TA's and professors could then discuss potential improvements to the course. | |||
***Having student input for A) which courses should be included, B) which are mandatory, which are elective, and C) the content of certain courses. | |||
***To aid in curriculum development, course plans should be presented to the Division (perhaps in a | |||
seminar-type forum?) to provide the opportunity for members of the BE community to provide initial feedback on the undergraduate curriculum. | |||
===Thesis Mentoring (Diana)=== | ===Thesis Mentoring (Diana)=== |
Revision as of 21:30, 17 April 2006
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Topic AreasAdd, subtract as you see fit Curriculum
Advisor Selection Process (Diana)
Facilities (Nate & Maxine)
Career Development (Nate, Jordan)
Undergraduate Major (Amy)
concepts?
seminar-type forum?) to provide the opportunity for members of the BE community to provide initial feedback on the undergraduate curriculum. Thesis Mentoring (Diana)
Faculty Research DirectionsFaculty/Student Interactions (Maxine)
ABS/Bioengineering (Paul, Bahar)General BE Board Activity Updates (Diana, Barry)
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