Insights into USC Viterbi School's Education Committee and Teaching Resources
Discover the EFC Instruction Committee members at USC Viterbi School, key observations on curriculum improvements, teaching resources provided by Michael Neely, scholarly papers on teaching, and a humorous academic joke from a research paper.
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EFC Instruction Committee [April 27, 2019] Members: Mike Neely (EES) mjneely@usc.edu Paul Ronney (AME) ronney@usc.edu shahram@usc.edu Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (CSCI) Jesse Yen (BME) jesse.yen@usc.edu
Some Observations 3 4 unit upgrades reveal curriculum overlaps, deviation from course goals, need for (distributed or centralized) oversight. Some faculty have not taken a class for 20-30 years.
Teaching Resources at Following Link http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~mjneely/teaching-resources/ Or: Go to Michael Neely homepage click teaching resources link Definition of Teaching Excellence for USC Viterbi School Instructions and guidelines for peer observation (voluntary and non-evaluative) Scholarly papers on teaching Teaching Evaluation proposal
Papers on Teaching 1) Mathematical Microagressions, MAA FOCUS Oct/Nov 2015, Francis Su. 2) Gender Bias in Student Evaluations, Inside Higher Ed, Kaitlin Mulhere, 2014. 3) Engineering an Educational Transformation Based on Analogies with Chemical Reaction Processes, Yortsos et. al. 2017. Please send more examples!
A motivating joke from the Su paper Professor: We ll skip the proof of the lemma, because it s obvious. We ll now use the lemma to prove the theorem . . . Student: I m sorry, I don t think the proof of the lemma is obvious. Professor: (stops to think about it and, after a long pause, collects herself) I was right! The proof of the lemma is obvious. We ll now use the lemma to prove the theorem . . .
