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In an engineering course at UC Davis, students learn all the nuances that go into brewing ‘a truly excellent cup of coffee.’
Many speak fondly of how Barry Dwolatzky took them into a derelict disco and enthusiastically explained the tech co-working space he envisioned there.
Engineers say the current ‘iron ring’ ritual is steeped in colonial worldviews and excludes the public from understanding engineers’ ethical obligations.
A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?
The pandemic has made universities rethink the importance of helping students build social and mentoring connections to support student engagement and academic success.
The new Alphabet Workers Union is making clear that changes must be put in place, both in education and on the job, to allow engineers to start taking responsibility for the social impact of their work.
Technological stewardship is a set of values that provide members of the engineering community with guidance for responsible, responsive and agile approaches to design and implementation.
Technological advances and discoveries are moving at a rate faster than engineering education can keep up with. The solution is a revised approach to teaching engineering.
Research shows that students feel motivated when they learn more about the struggles and failures of the world’s greatest scientists.
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Professor of English Language and Literature; University Research Chair & Founding Director, Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo
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HHMI Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University
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Assistant Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor (Teaching), Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Associate Professor and Director, Experiential Learning Office, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University
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Lead Educational Developer (Scholarly Teaching), McMaster University
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Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Computing Education Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Associate professor in electrical engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis
