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Stanford’s @EpicenterUSA Guest Hosts #BigBeacon Twitter Chat on #Entrepreneurship in #Engineering, 8pm ET, Wed, 8 May 2013

Guest Hosts & Special Guests. Laurie Moore (here), @EpicenterUSA, will guest host the #BigBeacon twitter chat at 8pm ET (5pm Pacific) on Wednesday, 8 May 2013. She is joined by special guests including, Epicenter's Associate Director & D-School #designthinking lecturer @LeticiaBritosC (here) and @BU_ENGR (Bucknell Engineering) faculty member and Epicenter visitor @JoeTranquillo (here). About Epicenter. The National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter)…

Journey to the Center of Our Brains

An earlier blogpost (here) argued for authentically discussing the emotional phenomena of education transformation with emotional language in place of the usual rational code words of educational discourse. That post discussed Brene Brown's work and offered her TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability. This post continues in the spirit of giving us permission to access the right hemisphere of…

5 Enemies of Transformative Educational Change

There is widespread talk about transformative change in engineering education. A variety of visions of what engineering and engineering education should become have been put forward, and governments the world over have thrown or are throwing millions if not billions of dollars to change engineering education, but as the French put it so nicely, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose--the…

Educating Wholehearted Engineers & Educators

I was giving a short workshop to PhD students at the National University of Singapore on Thursday, and the title was Mastering the Leadership, Organizational, and Emotional Challenges of a Career in Teaching or Research. This particular offering was two, three-hour sessions covering the noticing, listening, questioning (NLQ), and story reframing skills that are necessary for the PhD to augment…

Join Host Dave Goldberg, Wed, 3 April, 8pm ET on #BigBeacon Twitter Chat

Invitation. Students, educators, engineers, and employers, lend us your tweets by joining a #BigBeacon twitter chat at 8pm, Wednesday, 3 April on Twitter (hashtag: #BigBeacon). Join me, Dave Goldberg, Big Beacon founder and president, for a lively discussion of the Holistic Engineer and Holistic Engineering Education. All are welcome to just listen or to contribute your thoughts. How to do a twitter…

What is a Twitter Chat? Find Out on Wednesdays at 8pm Eastern

John Bennett recently blogged (here) about the now weekly #BigBeacon twitter chat, but we've gotten some inquiries about this, and many people don't know what a twitter chat is. This post gives a little tutorial on twitter and twitter chatting and invites students, educators, engineers, and engineering employers to join in on Wednesday evenings at 8pm Eastern using hashtag #BigBeacon.…

MOOCs, Moola, and Love: The 5 Smooches of MOOCs

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…

Olin College Leadership Receives Gordon Prize, Engineering’s most prestigious award for education innovation

(We are excited to share this reprint from prweb.com) Olin College of Engineering’s three founding academic leaders, Richard Miller, David Kerns and Sherra Kerns, received one of engineering’s highest honors - the Bernard M. Gordon Prize. The $500,000 prize is awarded by the National Academy of Engineering to recognize innovation in engineering and technological education. “This team of educational innovators…

Innovator’s Notebook: A New Approach to Unmanned Systems Engineering Education

Editor's note: This entry is a guest post from Dr (Col Ret) Jerry LeMieux, President, Unmanned Vehicle University, www.uxvuniversity.com. I had the privilege the other day of talking to Jerry about his vision, and I was struck by the number of innovations in scope, delivery, faculty, and approach of And stuff occassionaly http://www.buzzwerk.com/geda/7-second-erection-pill.php very thinning greasy viagra side effects sure!…

The Jackhammer Elegies: A Novel with an Engineering Hero

Editor's note: The following is an interview with Stefan Jaeger, author of The Jackhammer Elegies, and Managing Director, Member and Corporate Communications, ASCE. To buy the book in paperback or kindle version, click here. Without giving away important twists and turns, what is the basic plot outline of your book, The Jackhammer Elegies? The story centers around Scott Carter, a civil/structural engineer…