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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
MOOCs and Moola There was an article in the New York Times about how massive open online courses are popular and not yet profitable (here). To me this is reminiscent of the rush to place newspaper content online for free, which, later, many newspapers (including the NYT) regretted. The Wall Street Journal was one of a very few who…
Over the last few decades, much time and energy has gone toward reform efforts in engineering education. This work has yielded a great deal of insight into the relative effectiveness of different teaching approaches, and has led to calls for the adoption of experimentally validated pedagogies in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). What the work hasn’t addressed as much, though, is one key fundamental question: What are the underlying values in engineering education?
We need to address values because they are critical for enabling real change in engineering education. After all, if you try to make a change in pedagogy or content without addressing the underlying value system, you are likely to fail, as value systems are the social equivalent of immune systems. Additionally, the values we hold greatly affect the experience students have, and, accordingly, who they become.
Following are four core values — or pillars for reform — we need to address when discussing engineering education.
I just spent a beautiful day with hundreds of amazing Junior Enterprise students at the 2012 Junior Enterprise World Congress (JEWC2012) in Paraty, Brazil south of Rio de Janeiro. I was privileged to be able to give two talks at the conference, and you can see the powerpoint deck of the shorter of the two presentations, Three Steps Junior Enterprise &…