Prof. David Goldberg

EVENTO PRESENCIAL E GRATUITO

DATA: 23 de maio de 2024

HORÁRIO: 8h às 17h30

LOCAL: Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL) - Maceió/Alagoas
Campus A. C. Simões


Descrição do minicurso:

In a few short decades, the world we now live in has been almost completely transformed by the entrepreneurial efforts of engineering and tech entrepreneurs the world over, but around the globe, engineering educators lecture from course notes, syllabi, and curricula that would be at home in the 1950s. One would think, that new PhDs would come along and change things, but new PhDs are educated in what amounts to an old operating system embedded in a culture that propagates itself with little reflection, and with almost no understanding of how to bring about change.  This mini-course introduces five shifts in mindset and skill that engineering educators need to educate a new generation of entrepreneurial engineers.  Interestingly, it is these same five shifts that need to be embedded in the education of young engineers to help call forth the kind of widespread entrepreneurship required in this age of pervasive entrepreneurial effort.

In particular, the shifts addressed in the mini-course are as follows:

 ·         Schoen’s shift: Knowing that great human practice is as conversational and reflective as it is theoretical.

 ·         Brain-on-a-stick shift: Knowing that human practice combines heart and hand as much as head.

 ·         Wittgenstein’s shift: Knowing that language is generative and creative as well as descriptive.

 ·         Little bet’s shift: Knowing that little bets and experiments are as important in making change as planning.

 ·         Co-contraries shift: Knowing that managing opposites that need each other (co-contraries) is as important as solving problems once and for all.

 It is interesting that each of the shifts is about managing a co-contrary (theory && practice, head && heart-hands, language as descriptive && generative, planning && little bets, co- contraries && problem solving) to achieve AND excellence on both dimensions.

 While the mini-course introduces many new ideas, it does so in a way designed to embed those ideas in practice.  The workshop spends minimal effort on lecturing and maximal effort on applying the concepts, practices, and mindsets in engaging conversational exercises.