The mission of the Big Beacon Blog is to share critical opinions, trends, reflections, and pedagogical tools from the leaders of the engineering education change movement. The goal is to build a network of ideas that are provocative, useful, and forward thinking to engineering educators who are hungry for change.
Higher Ed Outsider: Show vs. tell
In the most recent episode of Big Beacon Radio: Transforming Higher Education, guest Jeff Shelton discussed his educational background and how it led him to become the host of the Engineering Commons…
Art for Engineers: Encouraging More Whole-Brain Thinking
Post contributed by Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E. The human brain’s left and right hemispheres have markedly different capabilities. The left hemisphere exhibits valuable verbal, analytic, logical, and linear characteristics…
Guiding Change: Relationships Foster Movements
Post contributed by Dr. Bryan Boulanger When I was little my father used to tell me, “If you want to know what you look like, look in the mirror. If…