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…
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Welcome to the Big Beacon twitter chat, where we explore ideas and community relevant to the transformation of engineering education every week. Look for hashtag #BigBeacon every Wednesday at 8 pm Eastern Time. Depictions of Engineers in Popular Entertainment This week, Wednesday October 30 (8 pm), we'll take a look at Engineers in Popular Entertainment—be it fiction, movies, or TV—first,…
Big Beacon is pleased to announce the translation of the Big Beacon Manifesto into French. Mark Somerville and I met Marlis Krichewsky, a researcher at CIRPP (here) in Paris, at Olin College earlier this summer, and she volunteered to translate the manifesto. She completed the translation earlier this week, and we are grateful to her for volunteering to help the…
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Students, educators, engineers & #STEM professionals, and engineering & #STEM employers, join us for the last #BigBeacon twitter chat of the summer on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 8pm Eastern. The session will be a wide-ranging reflection on the state of engineering education and for those who participated in earlier sessions, it will be an To somewhat. This cheap antibiotics…
Christopher Chabris and Dan Simon have written a popular little book, The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us, and if you've never seen the namesake video watch below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo As explained elsewhere (here) in more detail, participants in the original 1999 study were asked to count the passes between basketball players, and roughly half missed the gorilla as it walked across…
Engin Ed(ie): A Troubled Client As a one-on-one leadership coach to academic administrators, faculty, and others, I've learned that clients oftentimes struggle with various misalignments in their lives. That is, they say one thing and do another, or they think one thing and say something else, or put one thing in one thing in one compartment and something somewhere else,…
Recently on HuffingtonPost, I explored 5 Times in a Career When Academic Should Hire a Coach, and I stand by that advice and believe that over the coming years more profs and administrators will hire coaches to help them navigate the increasingly complex work environment that academic life is becoming. For those interested in that article and the 5 times look at…
This week I spent time at Olin College in Needham, MA with my co-author, Mark Somerville, and collaborating writer, Catherine Whitney as we worked toward a first full draft manuscript for a new book, A Whole New Engineer: A Surprising Emotional Journey. We've been working on the book for almost a year and a half, and crafting the stories together…