Institutional Council Reception
Ticketed event: Past Presidents Dinner - $50.00 advanced registration and $60.00 on site registration
Past Presidents Dinner hosted by Past President Grant Crawford.
Free ticketed event
Sunrise Yoga
Prayer Breakfast organized by Herb Hess
Free ticketed event
Join us for a local jobsite tour of the future Mecklenburg Recovery Response Center, hosted by industry (Sterling Construction Services and JE Dunn Construction), to get to know more about design and construction, including challenges and opportunities for the future of construction engineering education.
We will be meeting at the jobsite and transportation is NOT provided to or from jobsite. Please plan ahead.
Personal protective equipment may be required from attendees. We will provide additional information closer to the conference date.
Due to concerns about safety of all involved, this event is capped to the 15 ticketed participants.
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections
Free ticketed event
This is the annual business meeting of the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD).
Business Meeting of the First-Year Program Division
Where students' ideas rule the realm, students change the world and education! Join this session for Icebreaker activities, student presentations and open discussion with the students and teachers who organize and hold student-driven engineering workshops, hackathons and classes at MIT and at high schools in several Italian cities, Barcelona (Spain), Chihuahua (Mexico), and other US and international locations.
Part 1: Students Antonia Chavez, Amrit Singh and others open this session by inviting attenders to do Icebreaker activities, including: simple Physics puzzles; viewing projects that ... (continued)
For those interested in: Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology and Pre-College
Elizabeth Cavicchi encourages students to be explorers, facing the unknown, observing, questioning, and collaboratively evolving their own experiments and ideas in EC.050/090 Re-create Experiments from History, the Edgerton Center seminar she has taught since 2005. As exploring uncovers uncertainties, her students and herself come into dialogue with each other and historical investigators. Elizabeth’s teaching and research extends critical exploration in the classroom. This research pedagogy, developed by her Harvard doctoral adviser Eleanor Duckworth, has roots in Jean Piaget’s works and scienc ... (continued)
High school student
Teacher
Ed has been with the Edgerton Center since 2000. He is the instructor for the fall EC.A790 Engineering, Art, and Science First Year Advising Seminar (co-taught with Christian Cardozo) and is involved in the high school levels of our K–12 outreach program, where he has focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) outreach, initiating programs and partnerships from Florida to Alaska that inspire in young students a love for engineering.
Always willing to follow students’ lead and to let them discover their own voice, Moriarty offers the intellectual and emotional support t ... (continued)