2024 Fall

INDENG 375 001 - SEM 001

GSI Proseminar on Teaching Engineering

Ken Goldberg, Jinghai He

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024

04:00 pm - 05:59 pm

Etcheverry 3106

Class #:29111

Units: 2

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 39

Enrolled: 21

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 60

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

32 unreserved seats

7 reserved for Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: Master of Science or PhD Students

Hours & Workload

6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

This course provides basic training for graduate student instructors (GSIs). Discussion, practice, and review of fundamentals, issues, and best practices in teaching for any engineering course. Topics include: preparing a syllabus; public speaking and coping with language barriers; creating effective slides and exams; differing student learning styles; grading; encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion; ethics; dealing with conflict and misconduct; and other topics relevant to serving as an effective teaching assistant.