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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – February 10 – Entrepreneurial Mindset as a “plus and”

Design thinking. Makerspaces. Sustainability. Lean Thinking. T-Shaped Professionals. Grand Challenge Scholars. Engineering education is transforming, utilizing all the movements listed above to engage students, improve outcomes, and move away from calcified lecture formats. All these movements seem separate - a choice that faculty have to make from a menu of options. But what if these movements had something in common;…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – February 3 – Humanizing Engineering Education

Join Students for a Whole New Education on Wednesday, February 3 at 8 pm ET for our chat about: Humanizing Engineering Education Undergraduate engineering programs have traditionally placed a large emphasis on developing technical knowledge and skills in students, often without placing an equal emphasis on the societal contexts in which the technology is situated. We teach students to design…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Nov 18 JE: Transforming Education – Exploration & Discovery

Join Twitter chat regulars as they join CUBE Consulting’s Josh Graham (@CUBEuiuc) for a Twitter discussion of Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education regarding Diversity Education for Engineers. The usual Socratic questions will be posed and all twitter chat participants will be encouraged to engage in a lively chat on this topic. In their education, engineers are mostly presented with problems that…

#BigBeacon Twitter chat – Nov 11 – The Engine of Change: Illuminating the Power of Intrapreneurship

We are dedicating our next Twitter chat to illuminating the power of intrapreneurship. We’ll discuss what engineering colleges are doing to cultivate intrapreneurs, the ten commandments of intrapreneurship, and discuss how the entrepreneurial mindset is what supercharges these engines within companies. For many, the phrase “entrepreneurial mindset” sparks thoughts of startups and new ventures, but the entrepreneurial mindset is bigger…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Nov 4 – Resilience in the Face of Failure

Join Students for a Whole New Education on Wednesday, November 4 at 8pm ET for our chat about: Resilience in the Face of Failure Students face numerous academic pressures and challenges in college. Learning to overcome these obstacles is a key component of our education. But often, we don’t provide students with spaces to discuss these issues. There’s a culture…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Oct 28 – Engineering in Elementary Schools

K-5 students already have the qualities of great innovators problem solvers, but traditional rote-learning environments can often stifle young learners’ natural curiosity, engagement, and confidence. Bringing hands-on, relevant learning to K-5 classrooms through engineering activities, projects, and problems, however, can empower students to embrace their exploratory nature and stay excited about discovery – now and for years to come. And…

#BigBeacon Twitter chat – Oct 21 – The Voice of the Student

Oct 21 Twitter Chat - The Voice of the Student We preach to our students that it is important to consider the audience. But do we do this as instructors? Do we really listen to the voices of our students? Perhaps we should do more listening and less preaching? In this week's #BigBeacon Twitter chat we will get to hear…

#BigBeacon Twitter chat – Oct 14 – Engineering Equity into Education

Culture shapes our biases and beliefs about people based on their age, gender, race, language, (dis)ability, or income level, often without our realization. We communicate our biases in our world, often unknowingly, through micromessages. The accumulation of micromessages over time impacts a person’s belief in his or her own ability to be successful in a course, class, college, and career.…

#BigBeacon Twitter chat – Sept 30 – The Need for Whole Engineers

Five years ago, I (Pamela Rogalski) was working as an industry engineer, managing risk, and only considering community impact in volunteer work and over beers after the end of the end of the work day. I saw a growing need to integrate community impact work and engineering design work and co-founded a community of professional working at the cutting edge…

#BigBeacon Twitter chat – Sept 23 – Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education Mitigating Mistakes: Failure Isn’t Necessarily Failure

#BigBeacon Twitter chat on Wednesday, September 23, 8pm ET: Join twitter chat (Hashtag: #BigBeacon) regulars as they join CUBE Consulting’s Josh Graham (@CUBEuiuc) for a twitter discussion of Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education regarding the climate of mistakes and failures in education. The usual Socratic questions will be posed and all twitter chat participants will be encouraged to engage in a…