MILO KORETSKY
Oregon State University
ENGINEERING EDUCATION—WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THE NEXT
100 YEARS?
It has been mused that if Rip van Winkle were to wake up today, the only thing that would look familiar is the educational system. That may not be entirely true. This presentation focuses on emerging innovative uses of technology in the engineering classroom and what leads to successful diffusion and adaptation of innovative instructional materials and methods.
While technology-enabled learning materials may conjure an image of students sequestered, each individual focused only on a computer screen and oblivious to the world around, the premise of this work is that the most effective uses of technology actually enable critical social interactions amongst learners and between learners and instructors. To illustrate this point, several innovative technologies will be described. The presentation will provide illustrations of how these learning environments affords students the opportunity to develop both the content knowledge and professional skills needed by engineers in the 21st century.
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MILO KORETSKY is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. He is one of the founding members and a Fellow of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.
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For more info about this series: www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca |
Websites of Interest
- University of Toronto
- Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
