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Twitter Chat – Six Minds of the Whole New Engineer – Wed, 16 April, 8pm...
Join me, Dave Goldberg, as I host a twitter chat on Wednesday evening, 16 April 2014, at 8pm Eastern (hashtag #BigBeacon) with the theme, The Six Minds of the Whole New Engineer. The Big Beacon...
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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – 5 Pillars of a Whole New Engineering Education, 23...
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...
View ArticleBig Beacon’s Kai Zhuang interviewed on The Engineering Commons Podcast
This week on The Engineering Commons Podcast, Big Beacon’s volunteer Kai Zhuang discusses evolving relationships between technology and humanity, especially as it relates to engineering education....
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Twitter Chat: Changing the Way We Change, 8pm, Wed, 14 May
Changing the engineering curriculum and engineering education more generally is very difficult. Industry over the past several decades has developed a discipline of change management to help make...
View ArticleTwitter Chat: Questioning what Engineering Students Don’t (or Won’t) Do
I’ve spent the last several years of my engineering career thinking very carefully about what engineers can and can’t do. So far my conclusions are that engineers can have tremendous impact in areas...
View ArticleASSET: Grassroots Change Effort Underway at U. Cincinnati
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...
View ArticleWhat happens if we don’t change? A #BigBeacon twitter chat for June 11 2014
One of the key step in creating inspiration and momentum for change is understanding the consequences of not changing. In the parlance of the important change work of John Kotter, author of the Heart...
View ArticlePassion and Pizza: The Defining Moment of My Freshman Year
Editor’s note: Big Beacon recently met Athena Lin online through her tweets and blog. She is a rising sophomore in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, and we were so taken...
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Listen to Big Beacon Radio on Voice America
Big Beacon’s latest endeavor to spread the word about transforming higher education is Big Beacon Radio, a monthly broadcast on Voice America. Listen here, or subscribe on iTunes. The first episode...
View ArticleNew Radio Program for Transforming Higher Education: Big Beacon Radio
A new higher education radio program has hit the Voice America airwaves: Big Beacon Radio, Transforming Higher Education. Each month the show interviews a mover and shaker from the world of higher...
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