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Constructing our Reality
Last week I got to talk with a group of 60+ architecture students and faculty about design thinking, student development theory, and my Fulbright research… as well as how they connect to what we do in...
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A Tasty Bite of Elephant
The class on Student Development Theory at The College of William and Mary. I visited alma mater last night, The College of William and Mary, to speak about cognitive development theories developed by...
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Full STEAM Ahead, Virginia!
Discussing STEAM subjects: Caroline Martin, Dr. Judy Stewart, Orlando Robinson, Dr. Michelle Claville, Romdon Roopchan, and Dr. Shannon Chance. Big things are happening in the world of STEM education...
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Gravitational Pull
Hampton University’s second year architecture students are learning about gravitational forces and lateral loads by designing post and beam structures using a simple kit of parts (and adhering to a...
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Drawing (on) Gravity
Sometimes gravity is an architect’s friend. In fact, architects can use gravity to human advantage in all sorts of ways. In Ecology class today, I showed some diagrams of systems that use...
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ArchExchange
The Virginia chapter of the America Institute of Architects hosts a conference every November that is called “ArchExchange East.” It’s a fabulous learning experience for me and my students. Most of...
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Learning about Learning at Virginia Tech
Presenting at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy Virginia Tech just hosted its sixth annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy (i.e., college teaching). It was my second foray into this...
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If there was no fear… what would you dare to dream?
Ted, Damon, and crew conducted an abbreviated RoboSlam this part week for 18 undergraduate engineering student from the University of Wisconsin last week. They are students of former Fulbright, Bob...
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Expanding the Engineers’ Box
Fergus Whelan commented on this image that I need to think outside this box! Many thanks to Frank Daly for the fabulous photo. My students, having sent his look many times before, certainly empathize...
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Vantage Points
What you see depends upon where and how you look…. In engineering, the teaching-from-the-podium-by-manual-and-textbook approach simply isn’t working. It’s not attracting enough students to study...
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In “The Irish Times” Today
“The Irish Times” is running a series on women in STEM. I was quoted in today’s article. The reporter chopped out all the caveats a researcher like me uses (tends to, most, lends support…) but all in...
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Planning to Make Your School Green?
A colleague from Virginia Beach, J. Timothy Cole, and I published a chapter in the recently-released textbook called: Marketing the Green School: Form, Function, and the Future Our chapter is called:...
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Maria Carreira’s PhD viva on Learning Spaces in the University Context
What an honor to be part of the day a young scholar gets her wings, so to speak, by earning her PhD! Last week I travelled to Lisbon to attend the viva (i.e., PhD defense) of Maria Alexandre Bacharel...
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Using Architecture Design Studio Pedagogies to Enhance Engineering Education
I’m celebrating the publication of a new journal article today, with the help of Sally O’Neill. She’s one of the librarians here at DIT, and she secured permission and posted the article on DIT’s...
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Research Methods of Historians
Cecilia Hartsell, an inspiring historian and PhD candidate conducting research here in Dublin, chaired a workshop on Saturday (February 27, 2016) to help people learn about the use of primary documents...
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What we can learn from architecture studio pedagogy, a guest lecture at KTH...
After the lecture at KTH, with two librarians and two architecture profs, including my former classmate from Virginia Tech, Eric Stenberg.Professor Jonte Burnhard invited me to KTH in Stockholm to...
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Research Internship at DIT
Learning to train new and upcoming researchers, I recently welcomed an intern from the States. Allison “Allie” Wagner has been here at DIT since the start of January, as part of the Masters in Higher...
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Engineering Education in South Africa: Facilitating Teamwork and Celebrating...
My sister and I just crossed paths, like (air)ships in the night, at Johannesburg’s O. M. Tambo airport. At precisely the time my University College London colleague, Dr. Folashade Akinmolayan, and I...
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Work and play in South Africa: Teaching and sightseeing in Jo’burg
I was filling in for Dr. Kate Roach, and she provided many of the slides. Fortunately, I was able to draw from three decades of running group learning activities and from my own research on teamwork...
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Sharing research at EERN
The Engineering Education Research Network (EERN) for the UK and Ireland met today at Newcastle University. Since one third of the presentations at this colloquium were delivered by DIT’s research...
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