Interacting with instructors

Instructors are most equipped to answer questions from students in homework and course content and may be willing to provide study guidance beyond simply solving problems. 

Instructors may be able to provide career advisement in general. 

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The major disadvantage of videotaped coursework is the inability to interact directly with the instructor or other classmates. However, most programs currently employ the use of supplemental or web-based interactions with instructors or online small group discussions to overcome, or at least minimize, these deficiencies. Occasionally, poor technical quality may substantially impact course delivery and practitioners considering these programs may want to review sample videotapes or discuss this issue with current students. 

The participants in this study were chemistry, chemical engineering, or physics students in various upper-level classes at Purdue University in which quantum mechanics represents a sizeable portion of the material covered, if not the focus of the entire course. We had prior approval from the instructors to observe their classes and to interact with their students, and from the institution s IRB to do the study. All of the students who participated in the study were volunteers. Students were informed that participation in the study was not a criterion their instructors would use when assigning their grades. The students who participated in this study represented a good cross-section of the population enrolled in these classes, from students who did very well to those who struggled to pass. 

The fifth question asked students to rank the interaction between students and the instructor as one of the following excellent, good, normal, not that good, and no interaction. They all were significantly satisfied by the level of interaction with the instructor. Of the responses, 75 % ranked the interaction as excellent, and 25 % ranked it as good. 

They are the only venue from which students can learn from instructors and sometimes interact with them as well for an extended time and on a regular basis. 

It is easier to interact with the instructor by asking questions that have emerged from pre-class reading. 

System Safety Development Center (SSDC), EG G Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Bob Nertney, director (at that time), and the instructional staff, particularly Dick Buys (now with Los Alamos National Laboratory). While serving as a satellite instructor for the System Safety Development Center, I had the opportunity to teach MORT-based system safety and to interact with the SSDC staff and the Department of Energy and DOE contractor safety community. 

At MIT, a position called Professor of the Practice was created to allow the appointment of similar distinguished practitioners. Another approach is to attract senior engineers to short-term placements as visitors or adjunct instructors. These senior practitioners bring personal and interpersonal skills, and product, process, and system building skills not only to the classroom, but also to their interactions with other program faculty. Consequently, the proficiency level of the entire faculty increases as a result of hiring practiced engineers. 

Office hours Students use these hours rarely as most spent time in the sessions interacting with the instructor Instructor creates more resources for further learning and creating a profound knowledge on the course concepts... 

Faculty, administrators, and staff were selected based on their knowledge of the departmental culture, specifically the goals and values of the department. Faculty interviews include tenure-track and tenured professors, assistant, associate, and full professors as well as adjunct part-time instructors. Administrators include deans, associate and assistant deans, and 18 staff interviews with academic advisors and office assistants who interact with students on a daily basis. Interview participants signed informed consents and their participation was voluntary. All interviews were audio recorded for transcription and analysis and strict confidentiality was ensured during and after data collection. Visits typically lasted five to ten days depending on access to students and other participants. 

The comprehensive website (www.mhhe.com/carey) is book-specific and offers excellent tools for both the in-str-uctor and the student. Instructors can create an interactive course with the integration of this site, and a secure Instructor Center stores your essential course materials to save you prep time before class. This center offers PowerPoint images, a PowerPoint lecture outline, mechanism animations, and more. 

We are gratified by the response to the first three editions of this book. Our thanks go to all who have provided feedback we listened carefully to your comments as we prepared this new edition. We hope that you find it an interesting, dynamic, and interactive textbook for the modern student and instructor, with innovative pedagogical features. We look forward very much to hearing from you about it. 

In program code, one object requests that another object perform an operation the result is a state change, and some outputs. The interactions are illustrated with a sequence diagram Objects are vertical lines, and each operation request is an arrow. This also applies outside of code objects a,b, and c could be real-world objects such as client, company, and instructor or... 

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