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Student Activities
ME Teaching Fellows
 The
mechanical engineering department at Clemson has begun a Teaching
Fellows program, which is designed to encourage selected Ph.D. students
to consider academia as a career. Four outstanding students team
with a faculty mentor to learn about the instructional aspects of
a faculty member’s duties. The fellows share classroom responsibilities
with their mentor, and participate in shared critiques of teaching
style, test preparation, and grading.
“We’re very excited about this program,” observed
Imtiaz Haque, mechanical engineering department chair. “We
believe it will encourage our Ph.D. students to consider a career
in education.”
Mary
Holloway, one of the first four ME Teaching Fellows, commented,
“The opportunity to work with a teaching mentor has helped
me begin acquiring the skills necessary to be a successful professor,
while I am still a student.” Holloway has received a Graduate
Teaching Fellowship from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME), a program also designed to introduce outstanding Ph.D. students
to the challenges and rewards of teaching.
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| The ME Teaching Fellows program is the first
of its kind in the College of Engineering and Science. Shown
here with department chair, Imtiaz Haque (second from right),
are Fellows Will York (from left), Scott and Mary Holloway,
and Sethuramalingam Subrarayal. |
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