Taking Stock: Appreciating the State of the School of Engineering Education
In this annual address on the State of the School, it is customary for us to reflect on where we have come, where we are now, and where we are going. This extraordinary pandemic year – more accurately spanning 18 months and counting – has brought us challenge, change, uncertainty and adversity that reveal much to us about who we are.
"We are ready to meet this moment."
Dr. Donna Riley, Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education
We are stronger than we believed, and more vulnerable than we knew. We have deeper capacity for creativity and caring community than we thought possible, and we will need these reserves to meet one another, more exhausted than we could have imagined.
Come listen and reflect with appreciation all we have accomplished together in pursuit of our core principles – above all else, putting students first in all we do. We have learned viscerally in these dual pandemics, facing coronavirus and systemic racism, what is required of our profession to meet increasingly complex, uncertain, and conflict-laden engineering challenges now and in the future. We are ready to meet this moment, drawing on engineering education research to reshape our engineering formation and workforce development infrastructure, instilling new and necessary capacities for designing equitable, just, and sustainable sociotechnical systems.
