About the Workshop
The workshop Teaching, Deconstructing, and Integrating: Improving Instructional Engagement with Engineering Tools (TDI) will engage you in the Teach, Deconstruct, and Integrate process. TDI provides a framework for you to think about and teach how engineering tools (e.g., CAD and Excel) are sociotechnical in nature, exploring first the simple mechanics of the tool. The TDI process aims to spark curiosity for learning, collaborating, and devising new engineering educational content. This kind of interdisciplinary thinking will enhance engineers’ engagement with learning about tools by making their stories relevant, interesting, and perhaps a bit controversial.
- When: July 21 - 24, 2025.
- Where: Hyatt Regency Bloomington, Minneapolis, MN.
- Who Should Attend: Engineering faculty interested in interdisciplinary approaches to education and sociotechnical integration.
- Cost*: $3,500 per person.
*Registration cost includes workshop attendance, airfare, lodging, select meals, one year of coaching and consulting, and access to a library of workshop materials.
What To Expect From the Workshop
Everything you learn from the facilitation and coaching team and other participants can be immediately applied to your context and topics of interest.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify taken-for-granted assumptions about what engineering education looks like and to explore and practice different perspectives on education and student engagement.
- Apply inquiry-based learning practices instead of discipline-based or rigor-motivated learning.
- Connect existing knowledge, teaching experiences, and technical expertise surrounding engineering tools with distinct disciplinary perspectives and analytic approaches.
- Explore the fundamentals of sociotechnical integration and pedagogies of student engagement from the social sciences as applied to engineering content, sparking curiosity for faculty and students alike.
- Apply the principles of TDI to a tool of the participant’s choice and practice fleshing out a lesson plan using that approach.
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