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Karl Smith: Engineering Education Research, Teaching as Design, & the Connected Mind

Submitted by derekbruff on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 7:46am

Last week, CIRTL-at-Vanderbilt hosted a talk by Karl Smith, Professor of Cooperative Learning in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Professor Smith’s talk was titled “Studies at the Interface: Engineering Education Research and Engineering Education Innovation,” and in the talk, he shared his own path into engineering education research and the state of the field today. Read More »

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Unlikely Partnerships: Engineers and Fine Arts Students - Jean Hertzberg

Jean Hertzberg
Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder

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