Teaching innovation
May 2, 2016
Here’s a shoutout to the McMaster Engineering EcoCAR 3 Team. This is a group of engaged students who are innovators in approaching and solving problems. … More Teaching innovation
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Students Today and Jobs Tomorrow
April 18, 2016
My advice to incoming students this fall semester? Seek a university that is multicultural, where teaching is not just text based, which facilitates self directed learning, and keeps improving its community spaces and information technology infrastructure to allow students to collaborate. … More Students Today and Jobs Tomorrow
So you (don’t?) want a Ph.D. degree?
March 21, 2016
Whether or not you wish to pursue a doctoral degree can ultimately be a lifestyle choice. Either choice can lead to a meaningful and rewarding career. If you want a Ph.D. credential then pursue it for the right reasons. … More So you (don’t?) want a Ph.D. degree?
Let’s solve wicked problems
March 7, 2016
Wicked problems confronting us include climate change, international drug trafficking, refugee resettlement, the emerging Zika virus pandemic, terrorism and war, food security, better healthcare, assisted dying and social equity. The solution to any one of these problems, say refugee resettlement, requires the solution of a host of other interconnected problems. … More Let’s solve wicked problems
Experiments in leadership: Why we fail
February 1, 2016
Often overlooked, the role of failure during experiential learning is an important aspect for a leader to consider. Success is predicated as much on learning through failure as it is on recalling success. … More Experiments in leadership: Why we fail
Change need not be a runaway train
January 4, 2016
The Nobel Laureate Robert Solow described in 1957 how technological change, which germinates new ideas, products and solutions, and thereby enhances productivity, is inextricably linked with the economic growth that improves our standard of living. This change contributes to over 80% of the growth in the OECD economies of North America. However, technological change also contributes to “creative destruction”. It disrupts industries, destroys jobs in certain sectors and creates new demand in nascent … More Change need not be a runaway train
Why select engineering as a profession
November 23, 2015
We say, select engineering as a career if you want to become an engaged citizen scholar who wishes to transform the world. … More Why select engineering as a profession
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken
September 7, 2015
Engaged students become engaged citizens. They live and work with a driving passion to improve the wellbeing of our world. … More Be yourself, everyone else is already taken
Our need to develop innovative engineering programs
July 24, 2015
Leveraging the unique five-year “and” programs of McMaster Engineering, such as engineering and management, and engineering and society, offers a way forward to develop innovative engineering programs. … More Our need to develop innovative engineering programs
Fireside with the Dean 