Imagine learning about food science, biochemistry along with cooking! or fashion design, sewing, drapery along with Non-Euclidean geometry. How interesting the pedagogy would be
How might artist-mathematician and artist-physicist hybrid come up with interesting projects that come up with assignments, exercises to teach these topics, that don't feel like drills.
How might these chemical engineering topics be taught alongside or via fine arts/performing arts?
I find Nick (along with Shannon Mattern) the best example of a public scholar, folks who share their work generously with the lay public outside academic spaces.
His generosity in sharing entire syllabi along with assignments, pedagogy approach is extremely inspiring and something that I feel like every academic, researcher ought to emulate.
As someone who did finish chemical engg at uni, i say, first off there was SO MUCH TO LEARN. Even considering a few of foundational blocks were laid out previous two years like 1,5 in your list - there was still so MUCH new (fantastic) stuff every lecture.
Now, the experience of learning this amazing stuff - was another thing.
IMHO, The problem of avoiding "Feels like a drill" need not mean adding arts per se. That is sort of selling short how fascinating all these topics are.
@impactology Like when you are a 17-year-old and step into a mass transfer or fluid dynamics lab for the first time. It is awe-inducing. These powerful machines you get to operate and manipulate materials with. Huge warehouse-sized labs.
It takes a special kind of adult to kill that awe. Lol. I would take it if Indian faculty just stop doing that (i don't even need them doing more, do less)
Yeah dude indian profs take everything that's fascinating about machines, everything that's fascinating about the chain of thoughts that led to it's invention and discovery reduced to doing boring decontextualized experiment. What an insult to the inventor in a way.
Engineering is fun but the way it's taught via sophoroic lecturing, cut and dry assignments, decontextualized tests, exams is so damn draining
@impactology Actually, I have to slightly push back on this.
Can you give an example of a chem engg experiment being decontextualized, and how that lends itself to being boring? What is an example of a dry assignment?
(i agree with exams being problematic but I do think uni exams and competitive exams concerns have different nuances)
Don't know about chemical engineering but in our college it was mostly like whenever any concept was introduced it was never explained how you could recreate or make something similar or how you could design it bit differently tracing the chain of concepts that lead to it. Nope.
"Here's are the list of experiments you'll perform for these practicals and here's how you'll be graded"
@impactology No absolutely, it is good Q by you, knowing your areas of interest and being familiar with your work around pedagogy.
Just sharing a perspective as someone who straggled both engg and art side - I found even the "Dry"-est text book fascinating. In undergrad, you are learning about the basic truths of the universe - even the worst delivery can't take that joy away.
Like you pointed out in other threads, its the fear of exams and placements that kill it.
Similarly how might these civil engineering topics be taught via arts-based pedagogies of sculpture, architecture or even game design
Again think of arts-engineering/science hybrid pedagogy. Teaching engineering techniques, processes and concepts via the multimodality and embodiment of artistic techniques
For civil engineering, would be great to pair teams with public policy / public administration capstones. Many of those students, while delightfully motivated to improve the world, are a bit detached from the world’s physical properties.
Here I think industrial design might help, but there needs to be an integrated pedagogy. That merges both ways of doing industrial design and mechanical engineering.
and how about industrial and systems engineering, what arts or design discipline might correspond or align in it's modality and artifact making to rethink teaching it's concepts
NCEES — National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.
"The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying is an American non-profit organization dedicated to advancing professional licensure for engineers and surveyors"
An engineering pedagogy that merges design, arts, ecology, and values of sustainability while preserving a sacred relationship with nature and humanity.
How would it re-imagine doing math, science, and engineering
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