UT ASEE Student Chapter Resources for Engineering Education

The following links are designed to help graduate students who are appointed in TA positions, and to aid future faculty in preparation for careers in academia. 

Please email us at asee@uts.cc.utexas.edu if there are other links you would like to see posted.

“...one builds science with facts, as (one builds) a house with stones. But a collection of
facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
— Jules Henri Poincaré (Science and Hypothesis, 1908)

Interesting Books to check out...

• How People Learn by Bransford, Brown and Cockling.... check out this UT library ebook link! 

Resources for locating faculty openings ...

• The ASEE national website posts university faculty openings.
• ASEE also posts surveys  and engineering college profiles.
• ECAC on campus posts faculty openings as well.
• Science job postings.
• Nature job postings.
• Chronicle of Higher Education job postings.
• Academic 360 engineering job postings.
• Academic 360 science job postings.
• Higher Ed job postings.
• American Chemical Society career center
• AIChE careers
• Academic Careers job postings

Resources for developing a CV, interview preparation...

• ECAC,the UT Engineering Career Assistance Center, offers searches, workshops, classes, career counseling, and is developing services specifically for future faculty.

• The UT Center for Teaching Effectiveness

  UT Preparing Future Faculty Program

  UT Professional Development Classes and Events

Resources for current topics in engineering pedagogy ...

• The National Academy of Sciences  published the following report on engineering graduate education in 1995, including statistics:  Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers.

• The National Science Foundation engineering directorate.

• Next Wave is "an electronic network for the next generation of scientists" published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• The Scientist.

• Dr. Richard Felder's homepage features engineering and science education resources.
• Computer Aides for Chemical Engineering, or CAChe.
• The Journal of Engineering Education.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• ABET accreditation affects the development of curriculum.
• VaNTH center is "uniting educators and engineers..to develop curricula and technologies.. for bioengineering."

Send questions, comments, feedback, or ideas to asee@uts.cc.utexas.edu.

Last updated: 11/18/2003