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The impact of the NSF engineering education scholars workshop on one new faculty member

As I was preparing to complete my dissertation and begin my job search, I attended the NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University from July 21-26, 1997. The workshop was instrumental in motivating my final year of graduate work as well as my choice of an academic career over a career in consulting. It created a tremendous amount of excitement about teaching among the participants and gave us an idea of the range of responsibilities expected of a faculty member. In addition, the workshop helped me to prepare for my first semester of teaching by providing a systematic methodology for course design. The skills I developed and the resources provided through the workshop enabled me to choose appropriate goals and objectives, learning activities, and evaluation methods for the course. In the presentation, I will describe these issues in more detail, and I will also discuss how the workshop facilitated my ability to respond to the dynamics of and challenges presented by the course during the semester .