The intensive ASME Essential Teaching Seminars for engineering and technology faculty have helped over 400 faculty hone their teaching skills in a collegial, peer-critique environment, and learn from the latest best practices in teaching and learning.

The seminar is a mixture of lecture style instruction and interactive group work. The lecture portion of the seminar provides participants with a variety of practical skills for use in the classroom, while the group work gives participants an opportunity to apply those skills to their teaching with the support of their teammates. (See a Sample Program.)

Participants will prepare and teach actual classes in small group settings, with each class videotaped and assessed by the group's faculty mentors and the other participants.  This collaborative "learn by doing" format ensures that participants will make substantive gains by the end of the seminar.

The seminars are appropriate for new faculty, experienced faculty interested in strengthening their teaching and lecturing skills (and improving student evaluations!), and graduate students preparing for a career in academia.  The seminars are open to faculty of all technical disciplines. Each seminar is limited to 30 participants.

These seminars are a faculty development activity of the ASME Center for Education and are made possible by grants from the United Engineering Foundation and the ASME Foundation.

Interested in Hosting the Seminar at your Institution? 

If you are interested in having the Essential Teaching Seminars at your university, please click here for more information.