1. Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments What I Learned this Week W. Murphy

2. What I Knew IBM isn’t going to hire all your students IBM is a IT service industry not an educator –Focus on our core competence IBM has a wealth of knowledge we can share

3. What I learned Clear need for reform –Consensus on competencies “very little, incremental change last 800 years” –You have been discussing this a long time No consensus on how to reform –No one answer fits all –How we learn(ed) may be different from how our students learn Exemplars exist

4. Big T, little t ENGINEERINGENGINEERING Engineering Cross Disciplines MAJORMAJOR Business; People competencies TECHNOLOGYTECHNOLOGY Understanding & valuing competencies outside of Engineering

5. Let’s get going!! Change management principles (Heywood) –Faculty –Departments, schools Accrediting organizations –Institutions Rewrite syllabi –Integration –Applied / projects Textbooks Student ownership / drivers Engineering for non-engineers Look to your pioneers

6. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)