pathways to innovation | transforming engineering education with strategic doing
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PATHWAYS TO INNOVATIONTRANSFORMINGENGINEERING EDUCATION
How do you transform engineering at 51 universities?
That’s the challenge of the Pathways partners
They are using a new agile strategy discipline
Meet…Ilya V. Avdeev, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Meet…Magda Lagoudas, Ph.D.Executive Director of Industry and Nonprofit PartnershipsCollege of EngineeringTexas A&M University
They lead teams using Strategic Doing to transform engineering
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They design collaborationsquickly and create alignments
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They lead teams that answer2 simple, but not easy questions
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2015
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Cohort 1 Cohort 2 Cohort 3
12 universities
37 universities25 added in 2015
51 universities14 to be added in 2016
Purdue, VentureWell & Stanford are guiding 37 university teams
Our Pathway teams come from all over the United States
14 new universities added this
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Each team develops an initial strategies in hours
Teams have multiple learning opportunities to practice
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37 Pathways Universities
58collaborations
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125 in development
Pathways innovation happens in weeks and months, not years
New or redesigned courses…
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Completed In Development
Potential student impact: 55,865
Data as of July 31, 2015
New or renovated maker spaces…
0 2 4 6 8
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Completed In Development
Potential student impact: 40,400
Data as of July 31, 2015
New credentials (minors, degrees, or certificates)…
0 4.5 9 13.5 18
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Completed In Development
Potential student impact: 25,308
Data as of July 31, 2015
New infrastructure (new class rooms, IP policies, champions)…
0 4.25 8.5 12.75 17
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Completed In Development
Potential student impact: 44,993
Data as of July 31, 2015
New non-credit learning (workshops, internships)…
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Completed In Development
Potential student impact: 38,810
Data as of July 31, 2015
New student competitions…
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Potential student impact: 29,619
Data as of July 31, 2015
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25 Cohort 2 universities are accelerating since March launch
Data as of July 31, 2015
The Strategic Doing approach might be one of the most effective ways of implementing change on campus. It effectively replaces strategic planning, a traditional pathway…
Our diverse team of faculty and administrators have pivoted many times because of the continuous feedback that we analyze and plug back in into the decision making process.
Ilya V. Avdeev, Ph.D.
The Strategic Doing approach had a significant impact for us in helping us move faster from having a general idea for a program to its successful implementation. It keeps the whole team focused on outcomes.
Magda Lagoudas
Inspired by Pathways…
Purdue has won a $2 million award to transform Mechanical Engineering Department using Strategic Doing
American Society for Engineering Education begins collaboration to support Pathways teams
Inspired by Pathways…
Learn more about Strategic Doing at strategicdoing.netor contact Peggy Hosea at Purdue: [email protected]
Learn more about Pathways at venturewell.orgor contact Liz Nilsen at VentureWell: [email protected]