Teaching an Undergraduate Flight Dynamics Class for Three Semesters During PhD Studies to Prepare for an Academic Career

Abstract

A&M to mentor new teaching assistants during a university-mandated training program for several semesters. He has completed the certificate program called 'Academy for Future Faculty' hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence for graduate students interested in an academic career. Dipanjan's research interests are in the theory and applications of nonlinear multiple-timescale control. He has been a student officer of the A&M graduate student chapter of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a member of the Aerospace Graduate Student Council at Texas A&M. He is a student member of the following professional organizations:

Restructuring a Pedagogical Course to Benefit Engineering Ph.D. Students and Faculty

“…While many of these programs aim at improving the teaching ability of current graduate teaching assistants in lab courses [3] as well as a more holistic approach involving student-led discussions about the TA experience [4], other programs focus on a more general method for preparing PhD students for careers in academia with an emphasis on teaching training. Some universities provide teaching experience by thrusting graduate students into the instructor of record role for small courses [5], but a gentler and more common approach is a formal program featuring pedagogy and skills development. For example, Variawa et al [6] mentions an engineering pedagogy course as part of a year-long sequence for training PhD students for academic careers.…”