Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Many international graduate students in engineering departments are hired as teaching assistants to teach a course at the undergraduate level as their first college teaching assignment.Many new educators (international graduate students like me) are often unfamiliar with the specific engineering body of knowledge in an assigned course and the learning style of the students.The international student community usually comes from various engineering disciplines.Making a good first impression and establishing a rapport with the class is of utmost importance.Teaching assistants are faced with various options during their preparation for the course and the whole experience is very rewarding.Limited publications based on direct experiences in teaching an engineering course for the first time are available.My experience as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate electronics circuits course in spring 2003 semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the example used in this publication.This paper describes a first teaching experience from the point of view of an international graduate student (and experimenting with presentation tools and techniques).Recommendations for teaching an undergraduate engineering course based on classroom experiments are also made throughout the paper.
Source: ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors: Aravind Kailas, Sandra S. Courter
Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2187929885