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Events for Thursday, March 3, 2016
Preconference | Friday | Saturday | Postconference
Pathways Workshops (invitation only)
Alex Bruton, The Innographer
Terri Lonier, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lisa Getzler, Lehigh University
Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University
Robert Nagel, James Madison University
Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Registration is complimentary (for Pathways members only)
Session 1:
Makerspaces: Identifying Learning Objectives and Measuring Impact
Presenters:
Lisa Getzler
Sarah Zappe
Robert Nagel
Wendy Newstetter
So you’ve designed your makerspace, but how do you know it works? How will you be able to prove to your administration and other funders that students are getting something useful out of the experience?
During this session we will begin by hearing from experts that are assessing learning outcomes and measuring the impact of their makerspaces. Using best practices, you and your team will then be guided through a process of developing your own learning outcomes, and designing a plan for measuring and demonstrating success.
Please note: This workshop is for Pathways team members only. Pathways teams will receive an invitation to the session along with additional session details. VentureWell is able to accommodate up to three people per Pathways institution across both pre-conference sessions. If you would like to send additional attendees to these Pathways sessions, please email Tonya Dixon with the names of additional team members, and we will add them to a waiting list.
Session 2:
Curriculum Redesign Bootcamp: Integrate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Presenters:
Alex Bruton
Terri Lonier
You’ve decided you want to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship into your class, but how do you get started? Join Alex Bruton for a hands-on introduction to a number of award winning approaches and tools for teaching and learning innovation and entrepreneurship. You will experience the tools yourself, and will then work with Alex and your peers to integrate them into your chosen class, and decide how to measure the outcomes.
Please note: This workshop is for Pathways team members only. Pathways teams will receive an invitation to the session along with additional session details. VentureWell is able to accommodate up to three people per Pathways institution across both pre-conference sessions. If you would like to send additional attendees to these Pathways sessions, please email Tonya Dixon with the names of additional team members, and we will add them to a waiting list.
Oregon Faculty Meetup (invitation only)
INVITATION ONLY: This event is open to Oregon faculty interested and/or working in innovation and entrepreneurship in STEM, business and other fields. The deadline to register is January 31, 2016.
Join Oregon faculty and practitioners to share tools to enhance the teaching of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship at the college/university level. The workshop is open to Oregon faculty and administrators and will include a hands-on session, speakers and a panel. This meeting will take place at the highly successful Portland State University Business Accelerator. Following our day together, all participants are invited to join the 5:30 pm VentureWell reception to kick off the Open conference.
Join your Oregonian colleagues to share ideas, learn what’s happening at the national level, network with each other and look for opportunities to collaborate! This event is sponsored by The Lemelson Foundation.
Oregon faculty may register here at no charge.
Agenda:
Creating Impact in Engineering Education Meetup (invitation only)
Helen Chen, Stanford University
Shannon Gilmartin, Stanford University
Tara Loomis, VentureWell
| You are invited to join faculty from across the country on Thursday, March 3rd from 3:30 to 5:30 pm for the Creating Impact in Engineering Education Meet-up at VentureWell’s Open 2016 conference. Helen Chen and Shannon Gilmartin of Epicenter we will be presenting data from the Engineering Majors Survey, which was administered in Winter/Spring 2015 to engineering juniors and seniors across 27 engineering schools in the U.S. They will present select findings that will frame and spark engaging conversation about engineering education. The EMS initiative is being conducted under the umbrella of the Fostering Innovative Generations Studies (FIGS), which represents the research branch of Epicenter. Participants will include members of Epicenter, Kern, APS and APLU networks. Bring your best practices and ideas to share in a relaxing atmosphere! |
Welcome reception
All conference attendees are invited to a welcome reception on Thursday night. VentureWell staff will be on hand to meet and greet, answer questions, make introductions and offer tips on getting the most from the conference. We look forward to welcoming first-time participants as well as conference veterans.
We are excited that the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) is sponsoring the welcome reception for a second year in a row. KEEN is a collaboration of U.S. universities that strive to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work.
There is no extra cost to attend this event; it’s included in your registration fee.
