Our pledge to students
June 10, 2020
Learning together is a gift but the COVID-19 challenge has forced us to innovate and change to ensure an amazing virtual learning experience for students. … More Our pledge to students
Tag: experiential learning
The (Big) Idea: Integrate Education and Research with Innovation and Community
April 9, 2018
We propose a concept to facilitate learning through immersion in an innovation classroom where students have steady access to carefully curated short “gigs”. … More The (Big) Idea: Integrate Education and Research with Innovation and Community
Why learning from experience is the educational wave of the future
February 27, 2018
Volunteers work on a Habitat for Humanity site in Winnipeg in July 2017. Building homes for the disadvantaged is the type of ‘learning through service’ that will stand university grads in better stead with employers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods Ishwar K. Puri, McMaster University The university experience has changed. It used to be enough for … More Why learning from experience is the educational wave of the future
Big Ideas for Grand Challenges
January 22, 2018
Our world faces many grand challenges. I embrace the optimism that the future will be brighter than our past. For that, we must help students learn. … More Big Ideas for Grand Challenges
AI and the Future: Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity
December 11, 2017
An uncertain technological future requires adaptable and resilient engineers who can see through the fog and create robust engineering designs based on AI. … More AI and the Future: Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity
The Big Idea: Educate Citizen Scholars To Transform Our World
November 6, 2017
A university degree is simply a ticket that allows graduates to apply for jobs. MacChangers enhances graduates’ employment prospects because of their active experiential learning based on design-thinking, systems thinking and an entrepreneurial fail-fast innovation approach. … More The Big Idea: Educate Citizen Scholars To Transform Our World
Learning to learn, teaching to teach
November 28, 2016
We are committed improving student learning by overcoming the constraints that history and culture have placed on us. Why? Because of our mission: To educate engaged citizen scholars who will transform our world. … More Learning to learn, teaching to teach
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
Rigour, content and testing: Will that help drive innovation?
November 16, 2015
To help students ride the waves of disruption, we must better prepare them to compete through their contributions towards innovation. … More Rigour, content and testing: Will that help drive innovation?
The Martian: MacGyverism and duct tape
November 8, 2015
MacGyverisms are about getting things done. Mark Watney knows this. “At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you and you’re going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin.” … More The Martian: MacGyverism and duct tape
Fireside with the Dean 