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CHEME: Going Beyond the Fads and Jargon: What Does Research Tell Us about Teaching for High Quality Learning in Science and Engineering?

Wallberg Memorial Building 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

JENNIFER CASE, Virginia Tech Going beyond the fads and jargon: What does research tell us about teaching for high quality learning in science and engineering?  There is much contemporary talk on how university teaching is outdated, and how radical change is needed to accommodate the needs of current students and the expectations of the workplace. Many […]

An engineer at the helm: navigating through change, conflict, and culture

Room 610, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street OR online via Zoom

Join Professor Elham Marzi (ISTEP) in conversation with U of T Engineering alumnus and entrepreneur Ian Small (EngSci 8T6, MSc CompSci 8T9) as he shares insights and advice gained from over three decades of working in engineering startups and management. Topics will include how to manage and lead change, how to make challenging organizational decisions, […]

The Cognitive Costs of Design: Exploring the interactions between people, product and process: Dr. Jessica Menold, Penn State

Engineering Council Room, Galbraith Building, Room 202 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Jessica Menold will share and discuss her insights into re-imagining design in a more humanized approach, in her talk. This event, part of the ISTEP Engineering Education Seminar Series, will be of interest to all FASE faculty members graduate students and undergrad students whose academic activities and interests touch on this topic. About the […]

Creating & Using Case Studies to Teach Computing & Engineering Ethics

Engineering Council Room, Galbraith Building, Room 202 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ISTEP Speaker Series returns Tuesday February 13 at 12 p.m.! The ethical impact of emerging technologies on society has become a critical concern for engineers as well as users. In particular, the effects of computing-based decision-making are being felt across domains including policing, financing, health, and education. How can we train future engineering professionals as […]

ISTEP Speaker Series: UBelong! Stories as a Promising Intervention to Address Equity Gaps in First-Year Engineering with Allison Godwin

Engineering Council Room, Galbraith Building, Room 202 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This talk describes an ongoing multi-institutional project focused on developing and implementing an ecological belonging intervention in engineering using stories developed through focus groups with previous students of a first-year engineering programming course. The ecological belonging intervention is a one-time 45-minute intervention delivered in class that conveys the message that typical struggle is normal and […]

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