Guest blog written by Scott Nichols Greetings Big Beacon community members and Twitter followers interested in reforming engineering education: Come join me, Scott Nichols, to discuss how student-centered vs. teacher-centered instruction may influence the quality of engineering programs. We will get started on Wednesday, October 8th at 8:00 pm, Eastern Time. As the global economy rapidly grows, more and more…
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…
The following is a guest post by Gregory Bucks, University of Cincinnati. A grassroots effort is underway to improve the quality of undergraduate engineering education in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cinicinnati. The program, called Advancing Student Success in Engineering and Technology (ASSET) grew out of a conversation between EECS prof Jason Heikenfeld…
Sometimes I'll be watching TV and a commercial will come on and there will be caption, "Warning: don't try this at home." I have been thinking for some time that the changes in engineering education required to align with the times are so far reaching and difficult that engineering education change initiatives should come with the following warning label: Warning,…
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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…
I was recently asked to write an open letter giving some advice to the class of graduating engineers this year. You can check out my whole letter here, but I'll share a snippet that got me thinking about what engineering education (mostly) isn't and what it could be: You'll need your creativity and imagination every bit as much as…
Welcome back to the Big Beacon twitter chat, where we explore ideas and community relevant to the transformation of engineering education every week. Look for hashtag #BigBeacon every Wednesday at 8 pm EST. We have an exciting lineup of guest moderators and topics for the fall semester, starting off with our discussion with Sal Alajek, B.Eng., Portfolio Manager at Engineers…
Engin Ed(ie): A Troubled Client As a one-on-one leadership coach to academic administrators, faculty, and others, I've learned that clients oftentimes struggle with various misalignments in their lives. That is, they say one thing and do another, or they think one thing and say something else, or put one thing in one thing in one compartment and something somewhere else,…
Please join us at 8 pm EST on Wednesday May 29th on twitter, hashtag #BigBeacon for our weekly twitter chat. This week's topic is Rigor in Engineering Education. "Look to the left, look to the right. One of you will not be here at the end of this year." Thus began the engineering education experience of many of today's practicing…