Technical-English Teaching: Personal experience over last three years 義守大學電子工程學系副教授 萬裕民

Confucius said: The best way to learn is to teach ( 教學相長 ) Motivation

2 nd semester,93 A total of five 2 PhD + 3 Master students Writing in the technical fields (a book published by IEEE) First class

small group,small wonder Maturity simple goal; helping student to write thesis and paper Interest of this class

1 st paper accepted by JAP(IF:2.87) in 94 2 nd and 3 rd accepted by APL(IF:4.27) in 94 and 95 What I have after a year

Dear Dr. Wan, One of the graduate students working with American Journal Experts has recently read your article "Nanopillar transistors exhibiting single-electron quantum effects at room temperature" in Applied Physics Letters. He found your paper while reading the literature for his field, and was impressed by the quality of the research and the thought behind your article. He suggested we contact you because you published from a country where English is not the primary spoken language. Best Regards, American Journal Experts Comment from oversee

Dear Dr. Wan, We are writing to you because we recently read your paper "Nanopillar transistors exhibiting single-electron quantum effects at room temperature" in Applied Physics Letters. Your paper was listed in the references in a manuscript we were editing, and your was listed as the corresponding author. We would like to congratulate you on your publication. We have attached a sample of an article from our newsletter for you to look at. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Paul Kretchmer, Ph.D Another one

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94,95 After-work master program A total of 20 students same textbook More classes

opportunities to talk/speak English learn something about writing comfortable environment guarantee post-class-serve Interests of student

Students feedback

Teaching all-english class is … something new

It is better to be in graduate school (M icroelectromechanical sensors) Smaller class is easier than a large one Targeting on the subject familiar to students Bringing custom habit to them Notes for such class

Training graduate-student to do oral presentation in international conference

Teaching undergraduates … is not easy

Freshmen in I-Shou they are young they are agile (hard to concentrate) they know very limited words, but they have to study quite a lot (general physics and etc… they know not much about you

Pre-class preparation experience from colleague can help carefully choose textbook set goal achievable ( words) be ready to face chaos

In-class action be friend with them try to remember each of them set your rules clearly (no phone ringing and etc...) control pace,control temper

Something fun breaking them into teams choose team leader to help you team discussion and competition is fun

Record shows

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Mixed feeling there is an old saying “past profit has no guarantee in the future”. 基 金經理人的名言 ” 過去績效並不保證 未來收益 ”. I guess “teaching is a job that never gratifies yourself”.

Thanks for your attention and … comments are welcomed 義守大學電子工程學系副教授 萬裕民