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Tuesday, 9am ET, 14 April, BB Innovators Hangout: Coaching, Culture & Tembusu College in Singapore with Catelijne Coopmans and Kelvin Pang

Join BB Innovators & Innovations host Dave Goldberg on Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 9:00 am ET for a live Google On-Air Hangout (link here) with Catelijne Coopmans and Kelvin Pang as they discuss the use of coaching at Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. The Tembusu website (here) describes the program as follows: Tembusu College is one of four residential colleges at…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education – April 15

#BigBeacon Twitter chat on Wednesday, April 15, 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 social skills for engineering workplace success. The usual Socratic questions will be posed and all twitter chat participants will be encouraged to engage…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat, Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 8pm ET, Benefits and Challenges of Combining Liberal Arts and Technology and Engineering

Join host @deg511 (Dave Goldberg) for a #BigBeacon twitter chat on The Benefits and Challenges of Combining Liberal Arts and Technology & Engineering. The following are some of the Qs explored in the chat: What benefits are gained by combining liberal education and technology and engineering education. What challenges are presented by so doing? Where is this currently being done? Are such…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – March 18 – What Does It Mean to be An Engineer

Join the Engineering Education Students’ Society at the University of Calgary on Wednesday, March 18 at 8pm ET to discuss: What Does it Mean to be An Engineer? Those of us in engineering education are sometimes considered to be outliers or outsiders for not pursuing more technical and conventional job opportunities. But is an engineer in project management still an engineer?…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Engineering is… – March 11

Did you know that March is National Engineering Month? It’s Canada’s biggest celebration of engineering and technology, its people and its effects on society. For the first time ever, National Engineering Month 2015 will include a completely virtual event. Intended to facilitate a conversation amongst engineering students, engineering technology students, educators and professionals, the #EngCulture online event will consist of…

Chicago Tribune Q&A with David Goldberg

Today, Kate MacArthur of the Blue Sky blog of the Chicago Tribune posted an interview with Big Beacon president Dave Goldberg. In it Goldberg was quoted as saying: What do we want today? We want the next Steve Jobs. We want young people that are courageous. We need to move from a university system that demands obedience of its young…

#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…

Who belongs in engineering? Twitter Chat – Feb 11, 2015

If birds of a feather, flock together, then how do we make engineering ed better? Stale stereotypes of engineering as a haven for rare birds persist, and continue to perpetuate an image of an environment that is not welcome to other birds, or even rarer- female and colorful birds. After all, a sense of belonging is a fundamental avian motive. It also happens to be…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Reaching & Retaining #GirlsInSTEM – Wed Jan 28

Though women make up nearly half of the working population, they remain underrepresented in STEM occupations, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In fact, women accounted for just 24 percent of workers in STEM, and only one in 10 STEM professionals is a minority woman. Experts point to a number of reasons for this gender disparity, from girls losing interest…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – Students for a Whole New Education – Wed Jan 21

Big Beacon invites students to join in our monthly Twitter Chats focused student-centered issues! We want to engage students in our conversations to transform engineering education. We want to bring student voices to a platform that listens to students’ thoughts and experiences and cherishes them. Students for a Whole New Education is aimed that bringing together students across the world…