Need some help in your classroom? Need a collaborator for a research project or change initiative? Need a mentor or an informal coach? Need someone to work on FIRST Robotics? Need a speaker or inspirational engineer? Or just want to meet like-minded individuals who want engineering & #STEM education to become more humane, more humanistic. Join Dave Goldberg, President of…
Join Dave Goldberg, President of Big Beacon for a twitter chat on the role of courage in transforming engineering education. We will get started on Wednesday, October 8th at 8:00 pm, Eastern Time (hashtag: #bigbeacon). Meet the Host: Dave Goldberg David E. Goldberg is president of the non-profit Big Beacon and also a noted computer scientist, civil engineer and professor emeritus at the University…
A Whole New Engineering is Scheduled Mark Somerville at Olin College and I have been working since 2012 on a book about transformation in engineering education. The book is entitled A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education. We are in the final stages of editing and production, and the book is now scheduled to be released t 1…
The Heath brothers' book Switch discusses the role of the elephant (emotion), rider (rational), and path (institutional) elements in effective change. Of the three, the use of path or institutional artifacts to help smooth the way to change is perhaps the least understood. This post examines 3 types of change artifacts that are helpful in educational change initiatives. Change artifacts are forms…
Join us on Wednesday June 4 at 8 PM EST for our weekly Twitter Chat by following #BigBeacon. Here's a message from this week's guest hosts, Taormina and Jessica of Outbound Adventurer: Bringing experiential education from the field and the lab to the classroom Hi, everyone! We’re super excited to be co-hosting a Twitter Chat about experiential education with Big Beacon, a…
The following is a guest post by Gregory Bucks, University of Cincinnati. A grassroots effort is underway to improve the quality of undergraduate engineering education in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cinicinnati. The program, called Advancing Student Success in Engineering and Technology (ASSET) grew out of a conversation between EECS prof Jason Heikenfeld…
Join me, Dave Goldberg, as I host a twitter chat on Wednesday evening, 23 April 2014, at 8pm Eastern (hashtag #BigBeacon) with the theme, The Five PIllars of a Whole New Engineering Education. The Big Beacon manifesto (here in English, here in French) calls for A Whole New Engineer, A Whole New Engineering Education, and Educational Rewire (a new process of educational and organizational change). The forthcoming book, A…
Sometimes I'll be watching TV and a commercial will come on and there will be caption, "Warning: don't try this at home." I have been thinking for some time that the changes in engineering education required to align with the times are so far reaching and difficult that engineering education change initiatives should come with the following warning label: Warning,…
In January, I was blessed with an invitation from Heather Murdock to speak as part of the 2014 Engineers Without Borders National Convention in Toronto, Ontario (here). The invitation was part of a Global Engineers Symposium (here). I've put my slide deck in a slideshare viewer below: After the presentation I had a beautiful The expecting chemical be after comprar…
This is a guest post written by Marcus Phillips. Marcus is a lead instructor and cofounder at Hack Reactor, "The CS Degree for the 21st Century" Teaching has been trapped in old, slowly evolving models for hundreds of years now. Suddenly, those models are being completely rethought out on the cutting edge, thanks to recent leaps in technology and high-speed…