Technical-English Teaching: Personal experience over last three years

1. Technical-English Teaching:Personal experience over last three years 義守大學電子工程學系副教授 萬裕民

2. Motivation • Confucius said: The best way to learn is to teach (教學相長)

3. First class • 2nd semester,93 • A total of five • 2 PhD + 3 Master students • Writing in the technical fields (a book published by IEEE)

4. Interest of this class • small group,small wonder • Maturity • simple goal; helping student to write thesis and paper

5. What I have after a year • 1st paper accepted by JAP(IF:2.87) in 94 • 2nd and 3rd accepted by APL(IF:4.27) in 94 and 95

6. Comment from oversee • Dear Dr. Wan,One of the graduate students working with American Journal Experts has recently read your article "Nanopillar transistors exhibiting single-electron quantum effects at room temperature" in Applied Physics Letters. He found your paper while reading the literature for his field, and was impressed by the quality of the research and the thought behind your article. He suggested we contact you because you published from a country where English is not the primary spoken language. • Best Regards,American Journal ExpertsWww.journalexperts.com

7. Another one • Dear Dr.  Wan,We are writing to you because we recently read your paper "Nanopillar transistors exhibiting single-electron quantum effects at room temperature" in Applied Physics Letters. Your paper was listed in the references in a manuscript we were editing, and your email was listed as the corresponding author. We would like to congratulate you on your publication.We have attached a sample of an article from our newsletter for you to look at.Thank you for your attention.Sincerely,Paul Kretchmer, Ph.D.++++++++++++++++

8. Useful tips from

11. More classes • 94,95 • After-work master program • A total of 20 students • same textbook

12. Interests of student • opportunities to talk/speak English • learn something about writing • comfortable environment • guarantee post-class-serve

13. Students feedback

14. Teaching all-english class is… something new

15. Notes for such class • It is better to be in graduate school (Microelectromechanical sensors) 93-95 • Smaller class is easier than a large one • Targeting on the subject familiar to students • Bringing custom habit to them

16. Training graduate-student to do oral presentation in international conference

18. Teaching undergraduates… is not easy

19. Freshmen in I-Shou • they are young • they are agile (hard to concentrate) • they know very limited words, but they have to study quite a lot (general physics and etc… • they know not much about you

20. Pre-class preparation • experience from colleague can help • carefully choose textbook • set goal achievable (+300-500 words) • be ready to face chaos

21. In-class action • be friend with them • try to remember each of them • set your rules clearly (no phone ringing and etc...) • control pace,control temper

22. Something fun • breaking them into teams • choose team leader to help you • team discussion and competition is fun

23. Record shows

24. More…

25. Mixed feeling • there is an old saying “past profit has no guarantee in the future”. 基金經理人的名言”過去績效並不保證未來收益”. • I guess “teaching is a job that never gratifies yourself”.

26. Thanks for your attention and… comments are welcomed 義守大學電子工程學系副教授 萬裕民