Webinar with Professor William Oakes on February 18th at 8:00am MST// 3:00pm GMT
Engineers today need much more than just sound technical training. They need a broad set of skills that includes communication, teamwork, leadership, ethical reasoning and social and cultural awareness. They will work in teams that cross disciplinary, country and continental boundaries and create new fields and disciplines. Students crave more than the traditional classroom experience and many around the world are motivated by helping to make the world a better place. We, as engineering educators, can help prepare them for exciting and rewarding careers while we show them how to make the world better as undergraduate students. Community-engaged learning is a pedagogy that integrates academic learning and work that serves the local or global community within the curriculum. Examples, including the EPICS Program headquartered at Purdue University, will be presented along with ways to integrate the principles into our own institutions.
Presentor
William (Bill) Oakes is a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He was also the recipient of the ‘GEDC 2020 Diversity Award’. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.