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 me, Dave Goldberg (@deg511), for the last twitter twitter chat before summer break on Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 8 pm Eastern Time using the hashtag #BigBeacon. In this chat we review our discussions from the beginning of the year and reflect on the most important topics and issues we discussed. During the chat we consider the following questions…
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…
Changing the engineering curriculum and engineering education more generally is very difficult. Industry over the past several decades has developed a discipline of change management to help make change more systematically, and A Whole New Engineer (here), calls in Chapter 9 for Changing the Way We Change. This twitter chat considers the obstacles to change in engineering education and how they might be overcome.…
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…
Join me, Dave Goldberg, as I host a twitter chat on Wednesday evening, 16 April 2014, at 8pm Eastern (hashtag #BigBeacon) with the theme, The Six Minds of the Whole New Engineer. 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…
For generations, engineering education—and education in all disciplines for that matter—has been a consumption process. The role of the student is to sit, observe, and absorb while the instructor “pours” knowledge into eager minds. Such an approach may have served us well in the past, but in today’s global and technological world, we need to change the emphasis of education…
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,…
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