All Roads Start With MEB: A Team-Teaching Approach For Mentoring New Faculty

Authors

  • Lisa Bullard Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 911 Partners Way North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7905
  • Richard Felder Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 911 Partners Way North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7905

Abstract

  A new chemical engineering faculty member can get a significant career head start by team-teaching the material and energy balance course with a mentor—an excellent instructor who has taught that course many times. The experience gives the mentee modeling and guided practice in research-validated teaching practices, and substantially reduces the burden in time and effort of his or her first new course preparation. This paper summarizes benefits and costs of this mentoring model and offers recommendations for making its implementation effective. 

Author Biographies

Lisa Bullard, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 911 Partners Way North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7905

Dr. Lisa Bullard is Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. A faculty member at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard’s research interests lie in the areas of teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, and instruction in material and energy balances and capstone process design. She is co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (4th ed., Wiley, 2015).

Richard Felder, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 911 Partners Way North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7905

Dr. Richard Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (4th ed., Wiley, 2015), Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide (Jossey-Bass, 2016), book chapters and articles on chemical process engineering and engineering education, and “Random Thoughts” columns in Chemical Engineering Education from 1988 to 2015. Many of his publications can be seen at <www.ncsu.edu/effective_teaching>.

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Published

2019-01-03

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2019): Winter 2019

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