All Roads Start with MEB: A Team-Teaching Approach for Mentoring New Faculty

A new chemical engineering faculty member can get a significant career head start by team-teaching the material and energy balance course with a mentor--an excellent instructor who has taught that course many times. The experience gives the mentee modeling and guided practice in research-validated teaching practices, and substantially reduces the burden in time and effort of his or her first new course preparation. This paper summarizes benefits and costs of this mentoring model and offers recommendations for making its implementation effective.