Please make sure to check with your faculty advisor before pursuing this opportunity. PMP students will not qualify for this. Tammy From: Timothy M. Whalen <whalen@purdue.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 4:54 PM To: Timothy M. Whalen <whalen@purdue.edu> Subject: Engineering Honors looking to hire a GTA Hello: This is Tim Whalen -- I'm with the Engineering Honors Program here at Purdue. Due to an unexpected change of plans for one of our employees, the Engineering Honors Program is now looking to hire a Graduate Teaching Assistant to join the Instructional Team for the course ENGR 16200 for the upcoming semester (Spring 2024). I am writing you today to ask if you could advertise this opening to your graduate students. A little bit about the position: ENGR 16200 is part of the honors version of a two course sequence taken by incoming FYE students. We teach engineering design principles, professional development, and basics of engineering analysis (specifically physics at the PHYS 17200 level). The students have been admitted into Purdue's Honors College, so we try to provide them with experiences that go above and beyond what students get in ENGR 13100/13200. GTAs in our course are responsible for helping the instructors run the course; in particular, they have a specific area of responsibility that they manage for us (running the course projects, managing our Peer TAs, etc.) Here are the qualifications we are looking for in our GTAs: * They must have an undergraduate degree in an engineering discipline (any discipline is fine, but must be in engineering). * We prefer that they have familiarity in as many of the following areas as possible, though we don't expect all of them: * programming in Python and/or MATLAB * CAD (any platform) * Microcomputers (e.g., Raspberry Pi) and/or microcontrollers (e.g., Arduino) * 3D printing * It is desirable (but not required) that they have prior teaching assistant experience. * If they happen to have a Purdue undergraduate degree, it is also desirable (but not required) that they are familiar with ENGR 16100/16200. Interested students should send a resume/CV directly to me at the email address whalen@purdue.edu<mailto:whalen@purdue.edu>. Note that, while we are currently hiring only for the Spring 2024 semester, we are open to considering extending our offer to future semesters, depending upon the student's performance as a GTA. Our time frame for deciding is short, given the looming start of the semester. Ideally, we would like to make decisions on a candidate by the end of this week, though we will extend this deadline if necessary. If you have any students in your grad program who are looking for support and might make good GTAs for us, I would be grateful if you could pass along this information to them. Thanks for your help. Regards, Dr. Whalen PS: since we are not directly associated with a specific engineering grad program, I have to solicit prospects from the college as a whole, and I am trying to expand our pool. I recognize that you may not be the correct person to contact regarding this, or that your program may handle graduate student support in such a way that requests like this are not appropriate. If there is someone else I should be contacting, or if you feel that it would not be useful to receive requests like this from me, please feel free to let me know and I will take the proper steps to be less annoying in the future! ______________________________________________________________ Timothy M. Whalen, Ph.D. Associate Director, College of Engineering Honors Program Lambertus Hall, Room 2275 363 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 Ph: 765-494-4473