LEAH JAMIESON
John A. Edwardson Dean,
College of Engineering,
Purdue University
Experiencing Engineering
ABSTRACT: As demands on engineering education increase, we must ask fundamental questions about how to design effective, efficient, affordable curricula that prepare students for leadership roles in addressing the global technological, economic, and societal challenges of the 21st century. Designing curricula around long-term experiences and compelling authentic contexts - effectively putting experiential education at the core of the curriculum - will enable more effective integration of the growing list of components of an engineering education. This talk will explore the role of experiential education and the themes of context and time to gain efficiency and integrate the curriculum.
BIO: Leah H. Jamieson is John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds a courtesy appointment in Purdue's Department of Engineering Education. She is serving as 2007 President and CEO of the IEEE. She is co-founder and past director of the EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service - Program. She is an IEEE fellow and a member of the U.S National Academy of Engineering. Jamieson has an S.B. in Mathematics from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. She joined the faculty at Purdue in 1976.
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