emotional rescue of engineering education - ewb2014
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Dave Goldberg, Founder and president of Big Beacon, speaks to the Global Engineering Symposium at the EWB Canada national convention in January 2014.TRANSCRIPT
The Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education
Dave Goldberg
Big Beacon [email protected]
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Stories
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Surprising journey
Genetic algorithms
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Anything But Engineers
Culture sculp+ng
www.bigbeacon.org
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Reflection
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Prompt: Engineering education today is not…
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Debrief
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Would like to suggest three things:
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1. We are reforming the wrong stu!.
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2. Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times,
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3. Using change methods too weak to succeed.
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1. We are reforming the wrong stu!, 2. Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times, 3. Using change methods too weak to succeed.
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Assumption: Need to be more rational & quantitative for education reform to succeed.
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Subtext: Pedagogical & educational e!orts need to compete with research for time, funding, and prestige.
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What’s the right stu!?
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Story: The Power of Initiative
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Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education www.ifoundry.illinois.edu
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Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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The “Olin E!ect”
iLaunch
iCheckpoint iExpo
iCommunity
ENG100++ Missing Basics
ENG100++ 2 Hands-‐on Projects
Illinois Engineering Freshman Experience
(iEFX)
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1-hour course + zero-credit iCommunity
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Great launch then…
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bumps, confusion & complaining
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“Weren’t sure you were serious about us doing what we wanted to do, but then realized you were, and it was very cool.”
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Then, students started to take initiative without permission.
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“Sure I made the right career choice.”
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“Making me more confident in my decision to be an engineer.”
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“I’m definitely more entrepreneurial.”
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“Just an overall all-rounded engineer, not just a technician. A human, not just a problem solver.”
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The Olin e!ect at Illinois!
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But how?
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How did such a small e!ort have such a big e!ect on initiative?
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Story: Aching to Lead in Singapore
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Singaporean Students Don’t Do X
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How do you learn the courage to be present as a leader?
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How do we learn courage?
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1. We are reforming the wrong stu!, 2. Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times, 3. Using change methods too weak to succeed.
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Story: Universities date back to 11th century.
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Founded1088
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9-10 century consensus
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University as an assembly of experts
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Expertise is being challenged in 2 ways
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Challenge #1: EdTech
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MOOCs
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Massive open online courses
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Challenge #2: KidEnterprise
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Story: Are universities necessary for research?
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Friday, 30 January 2013
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Post WW2 professor was
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From @jackandraka!@deg511 Working on changing education, too! !<link> !
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Pancreatic cancer
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Mid 20th Century
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168 times faster 26,000 times less expensive,
400 times more sensitive, 5 minutes to run
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What did he need from the professor?
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Lab space
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Any 14-year old with laptop an read papers experts read. Can get
funding experts get. Can hire help from
guru.com.
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Jack is not alone.
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Returns to research expertise are diminishing.
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The current revolution isn’t about teaching.
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Idea of university is being challenged.
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What is an expert?
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“I know.”
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What is a university?
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“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.” “No, I know.”
“No, I know.”
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How do we balance the portfolio?
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“I know”
????
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What is the opposite of expertise?
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Story: A di"culty of “knowing.”
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Rewind to September 2010
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Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program
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Stuck
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Love
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Breakthrough
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Learned how hard it is to really trust another person.
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How do you learn the courage to be present as a leader?
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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.
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Unleashing reaction
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Unleashing = Trust + Courage + Initiative -> Learning to learn
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Hard lessons for an
engineer & professor.
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All key change variables of
transformation are emotional.
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“I know”
“I trust”
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Unleash
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“We control”
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“We trust” “We trust.”
“We trust”
“We trust.”
“We trust.”
“We trust.” “We trust.”
“We trust.” “We trust.” “We Trust.”
“We trust.”
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1. We are reforming the wrong stu!, 2. Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times, 3. Using change methods too weak to succeed.
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At level of individuals, variables are emotional.
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At systems/organization level variables are cultural.
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Need to move from fear & control to love & trust.
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Trying to use existing bureaucracies to reform themselves.
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It hasn’t worked.
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It won’t work.
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When in human history have we made big moves?
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The Salt Movement of 1930
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955
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It takes a social movement to bring transformation.
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The Big Beacon Movement of 2012
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Problems: Changes huge & have system that delights in failure of candidates.
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Global movement
5 Pillars to transform higher education
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by collaboratively disrupting the
status quo.
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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
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Anything But Engineers
Culture sculp+ng
www.bigbeacon.org
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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
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Changing how we change: Cannot
assume that simple orders in a hierarchy
will do the trick
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Good exemplars growing: Di!erent objects of change, assumptions, & process of change essential
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1. We are reforming the wrong stu!, 2. Using assumptions appropriate for bygone times, 3. Using change methods too weak to succeed.
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1-3 Takeaways
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Email: [email protected] Web: www.bigbeacon.org Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/deg511 Twitter: @deg511, @bigbeacon
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Join Sunday breakfast for interactive session to collaboratively disrupt the status quo.
The Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education
Dave Goldberg
ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. [email protected]
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