Learning To Juggle: A Model For New Engineering Faculty Development

New faculty are faced with many challenges, not the least of which is learning to juggle the many aspects of their new careers. While many universities and colleges offer new faculty orientations, many such activities feature an endless array of “talking heads” from administrators, or perhaps “how to” lectures on the mechanics of pedagogy. Having discussed such workshops with other new faculty (and, we admit, even having delivered portions of them – guilty!) we have anecdotal data that indicate such workshops are generally tedious and not useful.