My Experiences as Faculty Member and Researcher

1. My Experiences as Faculty Member and Researcher Dr. Kalim Qureshi

2. Objective and outcomes • To share my teaching and research experiences with new faculty • Out comes: • How to manage your time in good way • How to control the administration of the class • How to design course syllabus • How to deliver a lecture in class • How to prepared exams and quizzes • How to I came to know my status in class • Case studies • How to evaluate student in Laboratory work. • How to update week student knowledge in 100 level courses • What is the need of course file submission • How to select new text book • What to do in free time

3. Introduction Faculty member Researcher How to manage your time Class Administration Course Syllabus Lecture in Class Exams and Quizzes Instructor Self Evaluation Case Study Laboratory Evaluation Process Special comments on 100 level course Course file submission Text Book Selection Summer Work Agenda

4. How to manage your time • Individual time table • Updating knowledge • Reading Books • Papers • Preparation/ updating of slides • Lab manual setup • Searching of new books and material

5. Class Administration • Class timing (Punctuality) • Mind your voice  reach to end of the class • Your accent  Must be understandable to student • Student Feeling (Friendly) • Q & A • Discussion • Student feed back per lecture • Questions per slide • Email • Office Hours • Attendance sheet • Active student in class • Student call by name

6. Course Syllabus • One page Info • Lecture timing, Office hours • Course catalog descriptions • Course objective • Course out comes • Text book • Per lecture notes • Class evaluation • Mid terms and final exam weight and dates • Assignments / Home work • Bonus Questions • Popup Quizzes

7. Lecture in Class • Class timing and class discipline • Make sure that every student have today class slides • Short Tutorial on last lecture (10 minutes) • Slides per class (50 minutes) • 10 are enough • End of the class put a slide to explain a knowledge unit to be known by student. • Influence thinking knowledge in per lecture • Student must get a habit to read a book

8. Exams and Quizzes • Number of midterms, final, quizzes, assignments and home-work • Evaluation of assignment and home-work by interview • Must be well define weight • Based on knowledge not on memorization • Style of your exam/quiz must fallow the standard. • Your way of checking papers/quizzes • Solution of midterms, exams and quizzes. • Grade C or D

9. Instructor Self Evaluation • Teaching evaluation • Quizzes evaluation • Exam standard evaluation • Book evaluation • Slides per lecture evaluation • Course out comes • Instructor present their lecture in front of friend. • Class graph (try to bring student up)

10. Case Study • Instructor student ratio in class? • Instructor student ratio in laboratory? • Late coming in class? • Teacher’s fairness in evaluation process? • Use of multiple book or one text book or self prepared notes or detail slides? • Conduct of same exame / quiz in multiple times? • Black board or multimedia approach? • Teacher student friendship? • Student reason not to attend the class? • Mid term exams detail sheet submission? • Your decision and message to all student community?

11. Laboratory Evaluation Process • Instructor must explain the procedure, objective and out comes of this today lab. • Lab evaluation by per lab exercises • Lab evaluation by lab quiz.

12. Special comments on 100 level course • Passing numbers 50% minim • Utilize the brain power of grade “A” student. • Common examine concept.

13. Exams and Quizzes Strategy • Quizzes 1 and 2 must be difficult. Give a message to student to work hard. • Midterm I is also difficult and tight grading. • Miderm II is little difficult • Final is moderate cover selected chapters • Prepared a graph of student verses performance and special care is needed for below average student.

14. Course file submission • Syllabus • Quizzes and solutions • Exams and solutions • Best and worst student exam copy. • Course file evalaution

15. Text Book Selection • Recent book • Must support the course catalog up to 70% minimum. • Must be used in many good universities • Solution manual

16. Summer or Work During Vacation • New course preparation • Slides preparation • Home work and assignment preparations • Reconsideration of evaluation process

17. How to organized your research • Research start after the updated graduate course book knowledge. • Impact of use of applied books • Choosing Area of research • You must have facility to build system or system is already build • Reading fundamental papers and recently published 4 to 8 papers (example) • Write the statement of problem

18. How to organized your research • Implement the code of your own algorithm. • Set the measurement parameters. • Get the measured data • Compared the results with other researchers published papers. • Write the conclusion

19. How to write a paper • Write introduction (explain the justification of this research and research work of other researcher) • Write mythology • Write experimental environment • Discussion on measured results. • Write conclusion (must be in few lines) • Write abstract of the paper (reflect the whole story of the paper). • Write the future research work

20. Paper Submission • Submission to high quality journal?

21. How to? • Supervise senior design project • How to supervise thesis • How to supervise research project