Engineering education, past & future

by | Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Neeraj Buch and I were invited to talk to a group of engineering educators from India. This was a meeting organized by the College of Engineering and the Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education. The topic I spoke about was was Improving Engineering Education: The Past and the Future [Download presentation PDF].

Topics related to this post: Conference | Design | Engineering | India | Learning | Psychology | Research | Teaching | Technology

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