Read my new article on the Huffington Post, Engineers Students Can Do X, here. One of the experiences described in the article is giving a talk and having a student ask the following questions: How do you learn to have the courage to be present as a leader?” I realized in the moment how central […]
Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result paraphrases Einstein’s definition of insanity, and one of the insanities of engineering education is the belief that the same old organizational structure (with the same old culture) will give us something substantially different in the delivery of an engineering education. The current organization of higher […]
Dan Pink’s RSA Animate video from his bestseller Drive is a terrific way into the potential for intrinsic motivation in engineering education transformation. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc 8.7 million people have seen it already, but even you have, its worth watching again. Better yet, read the book (here).
Griffin, Price & Vojak have released their long-awaited book on serial innovators, Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms. The thinking in this book was instrumental to the formulation of iFoundry thinking about engineering education transformation (www.ifoundry.illinois.edu) and is baked into many of the offerings of ThreeJoy Associates. An excerpt from […]
The Big Beacon is a global movement to transform engineering education. Read the manifesto in the viewer below, [slideshare id=13127563&doc=beaconfinal-120529220334-phpapp02] download it here, or go to the website www.bigbeacon.org. Follow Big Beacon on Twitter @bigbeacon and Facebook www.facebook.com/bigbeacon.
Seth Godin’s book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable argues that the worker of the 21st century needs to develop a unique skill set that will make him or her a must-have, go-to-guy-or-gal, johnnie-or-janie-on-the spot rather than a body that takes up time and space and does a rote job that many others can do. ThreeJoy’s vision of […]
Stanford prof Carol Dweck discusses the educational implications of her theories on growth mindset versus fixed mindset in the video below: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICILzbB1Obg Students with a fixed mindset focus on results rather than learning and tend to respond negatively to adversity, whereas students with a growth mindset tend to focus on learning goals and are relatively […]
First campaigns for The Big Beacon, a global movement for the transformation of engineering education, will start next week after Memorial Day. Readers of ThreeJoy Associates’ blog can get a sneak preview of the Big Beacon website here. The minds, hearts, and hands campaign poster is reproduced below. For more information go to the website (here) […]
Over the course of the last couple of weeks two books have popped up on the radar screen that suggest something interesting is afoot with respect to mindfulness practice. Chade-Meng Tan’s book Search Inside Yourself (here) describes a course offered at Google to help managers and engineers become more mindful at work. Daniel Goleman of emotional […]
When I attended Brian Bomeisler’s course (here) based on his mom’s book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, he showed us Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED talk Stroke of Insight. Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist who had a strong stroke that shut down the language centers on the left side of her […]