In recent months, Dave Goldberg has been doing some exciting work in Colombia with UniAndes. In order to better reach their colleagues, Chapter 4 of A Whole New Engineer has been translated into Spanish. If you would like to access and share this translated chapter, you can do so here: http://ciie.utn.edu.ar/libro/
Educators all over the world are discovering A Whole New Engineer and using it to inspire their faculty and students. From Professor Lisa Looney, Executive Dean of Engineering and Computing at Dublin City University: Decided to introduce some of your ideas in a very 'up front' way (while also brightening up one of our buildings) by drawing attention to your 6 minds…
Check out this summary pamphlet of "A Whole New Engineer" put together by EIWG member University of Twente:
The E-Word and Educational Transformation When Mark Somerville and I are were working on A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education one of the hardest things to acknowledge was the degree to which the transformation of education for the 21st century was profoundly emotional at the level of individuals and profoundly cultural at the level of organizations. Fairly early in our work together (2008…
Today, Kate MacArthur of the Blue Sky blog of the Chicago Tribune posted an interview with Big Beacon president Dave Goldberg. In it Goldberg was quoted as saying: What do we want today? We want the next Steve Jobs. We want young people that are courageous. We need to move from a university system that demands obedience of its young…
Guest post blog by James Trevelyan, January 2015 My new book “The Making of an Expert Engineer” is based on extensive studies of several hundred engineers in four countries, several of them true experts in their own domains. An unfortunate reality exposed by this research is that engineering education has become almost completely divorced from practice for three main reasons:…
Dr. Meagan Pollock will be speaking at the Engineers Without Borders Conference! The technological forces changing our world have illuminated a new path, a path leading to a whole new engineer, an engineer appropriate to our time and the foreseeable future, appropriate to the eager young people of our world, appropriate to those who wish to join the excitement of…
Jill Buck, host of Go Green Radio and founder of the Go Green Initiative will interview Mark Somerville of Olin College and me, Dave Goldberg, on Friday, 7 November at 12 noon ET (9am PT). Join us for an hourlong and wide-ranging discussion of the book, its making, and implications for the future. Here is the episode description: Go Green…
You're Invited to an Online Book Launch Party & Twitter Chat (Be Among the First to RSVP and Receive A Free Kindle Copy of the Book) What: Google On Air Hangout to Celebrate Launch of a New Book—A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education When: Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 7:30-8:00 pm Eastern Who: All are Welcome, No…
Hello Twitter enthusiasts and Big Beacon community members, Come join me, Erica Lee Garcia, for this week’s twitter chat about student-powered movements, collaboration and community-building. We get started Wednesday September 24th at 8 pm ET, on #BigBeacon. Recycling: A tale of student-powered change When municipal leaders and engineers in Ontario, Canada developed the technology and infrastructure to make…