My Experiences as Faculty
Member and Researcher
Dr. Kalim Qureshi
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Objective and outcomes
 To share my teaching and research experiences with new faculty
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How to manage your time in good way
How to control the administration of the class
How to design course syllabus
How to deliver a lecture in class
How to prepared exams and quizzes
How to I came to know my status in class
Case studies
How to evaluate student in Laboratory work.
How to update week student knowledge in 100 level courses
What is the need of course file submission
How to select new text book
What to do in free time
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Agenda
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Introduction
 Faculty member
 Researcher
How to manage your
time
Class Administration
Course Syllabus
Lecture in Class
Exams and Quizzes
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Instructor Self
Evaluation
Case Study
Laboratory Evaluation
Process
Special comments on
100 level course
Course file submission
Text Book Selection
Summer Work
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How to manage your time
 Individual
time table
 Updating knowledge
 Reading Books
 Papers
 Preparation/ updating of slides
 Lab manual setup
 Searching of new books and
material
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Class Administration
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Class timing (Punctuality)
Mind your voice  reach to end of the class
Your accent  Must be understandable to student
Student Feeling (Friendly)
 Q&A
 Discussion
Student feed back per lecture
 Questions per slide
 Email
 Office Hours
Attendance sheet
Active student in class
Student call by name
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Course Syllabus
 One page Info
 Lecture timing, Office hours
 Course catalog descriptions
 Course objective
 Course out comes
 Text book
 Per lecture notes
 Class evaluation
 Mid terms and final exam weight and dates
 Assignments / Home work
 Bonus Questions
 Popup Quizzes
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Lecture in Class
 Class timing and class discipline
 Make sure that every student have today
class slides
 Short Tutorial on last lecture (10 minutes)
 Slides per class (50 minutes)
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10 are enough
 End of the class put a slide to explain a
knowledge unit to be known by student.
 Influence thinking knowledge in per lecture
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Student must get a habit to read a book
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Exams and Quizzes
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Number of midterms, final, quizzes, assignments and
home-work
Evaluation of assignment and home-work by interview
Must be well define weight
Based on knowledge not on memorization
Style of your exam/quiz must fallow the standard.
Your way of checking papers/quizzes
Solution of midterms, exams and quizzes.
Grade C or D
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Instructor Self Evaluation
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Teaching evaluation
Quizzes evaluation
Exam standard evaluation
Book evaluation
Slides per lecture evaluation
Course out comes
Instructor present their lecture in front of
friend.
 Class graph (try to bring student up)
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Case Study
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Instructor student ratio in class?
Instructor student ratio in laboratory?
Late coming in class?
Teacher’s fairness in evaluation process?
Use of multiple book or one text book or self prepared notes or
detail slides?
Conduct of same exame / quiz in multiple times?
Black board or multimedia approach?
Teacher student friendship?
Student reason not to attend the class?
Mid term exams detail sheet submission?
Your decision and message to all student community?
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Laboratory Evaluation Process
 Instructor must explain the procedure,
objective and out comes of this today lab.
 Lab evaluation by per lab exercises
 Lab evaluation by lab quiz.
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Special comments on 100 level course
 Passing numbers 50% minim
 Utilize the brain power of grade “A” student.
 Common examine concept.
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Exams and Quizzes Strategy
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Quizzes 1 and 2 must be difficult. Give a
message to student to work hard.
Midterm I is also difficult and tight grading.
Miderm II is little difficult
Final is moderate cover selected chapters
Prepared a graph of student verses
performance and special care is needed for
below average student.
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Course file submission
 Syllabus
 Quizzes and solutions
 Exams and solutions
 Best and worst student exam copy.
 Course file evalaution
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Text Book Selection
 Recent book
 Must support the course catalog up to 70%
minimum.
 Must be used in many good universities
 Solution manual
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Summer or Work During Vacation
 New course preparation
 Slides preparation
 Home work and assignment preparations
 Reconsideration of evaluation process
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How to organized your research
 Research start after the updated graduate
course book knowledge.
 Impact of use of applied books
 Choosing Area of research
 You must have facility to build system or
system is already build
 Reading fundamental papers and recently
published 4 to 8 papers (example)
 Write the statement of problem
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How to organized your research
 Implement the code of your own algorithm.
 Set the measurement parameters.
 Get the measured data
 Compared the results with other researchers
published papers.
 Write the conclusion
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How to write a paper
1. Write introduction (explain the justification of
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this research and research work of other
researcher)
Write mythology
Write experimental environment
Discussion on measured results.
Write conclusion (must be in few lines)
Write abstract of the paper (reflect the whole
story of the paper).
Write the future research work
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Paper Submission
 Submission to high quality journal?
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How to?
 Supervise senior design project
 How to supervise thesis
 How to supervise research project
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