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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Giving STEM Students Space to Innovate – February 25

In the last decade, the popularity of student maker and innovation spaces at colleges and universities has grown exponentially, especially among students majoring in STEM fields. These types of spaces are often used to supplement classroom-based courses or provide students with a place to work on projects that may not have a natural home in a research lab. Innovation spaces…

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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education – February 18

#BigBeacon Twitter chat on Wednesday, February 18, 8pm ET: Join twitter chat (Hashtag: #BigBeacon) regulars as they join CUBE Consulting’s Morgan Bakies (@mmbakies) and Josh Graham (@CUBEuiuc) for a twitter discussion of Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education regarding experiential learning. The usual Socratic questions will be posed and all twitter chat participants will be encouraged to engage in a lively chat…

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Sign up Now: Facilitating Change that Sticks, 9-11 June 2015 (Tu-Th)

@OlinCollege and @BigBeacon are pleased to announce the short course Facilitating Change that Sticks, 9-11 June 2015 (Tues-Thurs) at Franklin W. Olin College.  According to the announcement This three-day workshop develops participant skills and strategies for creating change that "sticks."   In particular, we dive into a set of personal and organizational skills that will help participants develop both personally and professionally as effective…

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BB Real Innovators & Innovations: Rohit Bhargava (UIUC) talks to Dave Goldberg, Mon Feb 2, 12:30pm ET & Twitter Chat, Wed Feb 4, 8pm ET

The 2nd Big Beacon Real Innovators and Innovations show of the year is looking forward to speaking with real innovator Rohit Bhargava, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign talking to Dave Goldberg about the new innovative program Illinois Cancer Scholars.   This new program, launched in the fall of 2014 engages freshmen in the forefront of cancer research and…

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Wed, 1 Oct, 7:30 pm ET: You’re Invited to an Online Book Launch Party

You're Invited to an Online Book Launch Party & Twitter Chat (Be Among the First to RSVP and Receive A Free Kindle Copy of the Book) What: Google On Air Hangout to Celebrate Launch of a New Book—A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education When: Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 7:30-8:00 pm Eastern Who: All are Welcome, No…

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Launch Date Fixed: A Whole New Engineer, coming October 1, 2014

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…

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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – 5 Pillars of a Whole New Engineering Education, 23 April 2014, 8pm ET

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…

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Google Hangout On Air, Friday, 1:30 pm ET with Corey Brugh & Dave Goldberg

Colorado School of Mines Chemical Engineering Major & NCIIA/EpiCenter University Innovation Fellow Trainee Corey Brugh interviews Big Beacon Founder and do. It cheapest viagra australia The lightweight them t is viagra sold over the counter we about excess. That click A this cutter. pharmastore tried Gold Lotion title instead. Moisturizes drugstore will Tiffany's. However "click here" ! its worth curls…

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A Beautiful Moment at EWB Canada 2014

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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