Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education - EWB2014

The Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education

Dave Goldberg

Big Beacon deg@bigbeacon.org

Stories

Surprising journey

Genetic algorithms

Anything But Engineers

Culture sculp+ng

www.bigbeacon.org

Reflection

Prompt: Engineering education today is not…

Debrief

Would like to suggest three things:

1. We are reforming the wrong stu!.

2. Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times,

3. Using change methods too weak to succeed.

1.  We are reforming the wrong stu!, 2.  Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times, 3.  Using change methods too weak to succeed.

Assumption: Need to be more rational & quantitative for education reform to succeed.

Subtext: Pedagogical & educational e!orts need to compete with research for time, funding, and prestige.

What’s the right stu!?

Story: The Power of Initiative

Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education www.ifoundry.illinois.edu

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

The “Olin E!ect”

iLaunch

iCheckpoint iExpo

iCommunity

ENG100++ Missing Basics

ENG100++ 2 Hands-‐on Projects

Illinois Engineering Freshman Experience

(iEFX)

1-hour course + zero-credit iCommunity

Great launch then…

bumps, confusion & complaining

“Weren’t sure you were serious about us doing what we wanted to do, but then realized you were, and it was very cool.”

Then, students started to take initiative without permission.

“Sure I made the right career choice.”

“Making me more confident in my decision to be an engineer.”

“I’m definitely more entrepreneurial.”

“Just an overall all-rounded engineer, not just a technician. A human, not just a problem solver.”

The Olin e!ect at Illinois!

But how?

How did such a small e!ort have such a big e!ect on initiative?

Story: Aching to Lead in Singapore

Singaporean Students Don’t Do X

How do you learn the courage to be present as a leader?

How do we learn courage?

Story: Universities date back to 11th century.

Founded1088

9-10 century consensus

University as an assembly of experts

Expertise is being challenged in 2 ways

Challenge #1: EdTech

Massive open online courses

Challenge #2: KidEnterprise

Story: Are universities necessary for research?

Friday, 30 January 2013

Post WW2 professor was

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Pancreatic cancer

Mid 20th Century

168 times faster 26,000 times less expensive,

400 times more sensitive, 5 minutes to run

What did he need from the professor?

Lab space

Any 14-year old with laptop an read papers experts read. Can get

funding experts get. Can hire help from

guru.com.

Jack is not alone.

Returns to research expertise are diminishing.

The current revolution isn’t about teaching.

Idea of university is being challenged.

What is an expert?

“I know.”

What is a university?

“I know.” “No, I know.”

“No, I know.”

”No, I know.” “No, I know.”

“No, I know.” “No, I know.” “No, I know.”

“No, I know.”

How do we balance the portfolio?

“I know”

What is the opposite of expertise?

Story: A di"culty of “knowing.”

Rewind to September 2010

Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program

Breakthrough

Learned how hard it is to really trust another person.

How do you learn the courage to be present as a leader?

You learn courage from those who 1.  Have courage to check their egos, 2.  Trust you before you trust yourself, 3.  Are open to your exploration & learning.

Unleashing reaction

Unleashing = Trust + Courage + Initiative -> Learning to learn

Hard lessons for an

engineer & professor.

All key change variables of

transformation are emotional.

“I know”

“I trust”

Unleash

“We control”

“We trust” “We trust.”

“We trust”

“We trust.”

“We trust.” “We trust.”

“We trust.” “We trust.” “We Trust.”

“We trust.”

At level of individuals, variables are emotional.

At systems/organization level variables are cultural.

Need to move from fear & control to love & trust.

Trying to use existing bureaucracies to reform themselves.

It hasn’t worked.

It won’t work.

When in human history have we made big moves?

The Salt Movement of 1930

The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955

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It takes a social movement to bring transformation.

The Big Beacon Movement of 2012

Problems: Changes huge & have system that delights in failure of candidates.

Global movement

5 Pillars to transform higher education

by collaboratively disrupting the

status quo.

Coming 2014

5 Technologies of Trust

•  Wholemindedness •  Values-based design •  Coaching •  Culture crafting & sculpting •  Changing the way we change

Wholemindedness: 6 Minds of WNE

Six Minds of the

Whole New Engineer

Analy+cal mind

Design mind

People mind

Body mind

Linguis+c mind

Mind mind

Values-Based Design: 5 Pillars of the Big Beacon

•  Joy •  Trust •  Courage •  Connection •  Openness

Anything But Engineers

Culture sculp+ng

www.bigbeacon.org

Modern leadership coaching traces its

origins to Chilean engineer, Fernando

Flores, & his PhD thesis: Management and Communication

in the O!ce of the Future, 1982

Changing how we change: Cannot

assume that simple orders in a hierarchy

will do the trick

Good exemplars growing: Di!erent objects of change, assumptions, & process of change essential

1-3 Takeaways

Email: deg@bigbeacon.org Web: www.bigbeacon.org Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/deg511 Twitter: @deg511, @bigbeacon

Join Sunday breakfast for interactive session to collaboratively disrupt the status quo.

The Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education

Dave Goldberg

ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. deg@bigbeacon.org

Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education - EWB2014

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