IUCEE Workshop Summary

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IUCEE Workshop Summary

• Richard Anderson

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My expectations

• Initiative to improve teaching at Engineering
  Colleges

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Workshop goals

• Teaching Algorithms, Discrete Structures, Data
  Structures
• Active Learning
• Advanced Topics

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Impressions

• US Indian courses closely aligned

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Structural differences between programs
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Opportunity for transfer of teaching methodology
and new pedagogy
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Major topic of interest

• Conducting scholarship at teaching institution

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Major challenge

• Getting a PhD

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Issue 1 Career Advancement
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Issue 2 Active scholarship

• Create an environment that allows faculty to be
  active in scholarship

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Promote scholarship in teaching and learning

• Recognize area of scholarship
• Connect education and research

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Build research communities

• Organizational issues
• Create research challenges / problem areas

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What is the role of international ties in this

• What can the US get out of this?
• International student experiences
• Institutional ties
• Understanding of engineering/computing in India