Engineering design @HMC: a testament to innovation and entrepreneurship

• Autores: Clive L. Dym
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 28, no. 2, 2012, págs. 240-248
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper elaborates and formalizes the opening remarks made by the chair of the organizing committee at a recent workshop oninnovation and entrepreneurship. Held at Harvey Mudd College in May 2011, and supported by HMC’s Center for DesignEducation and the National Science Foundation, Mudd Design Workshop VIII provided a forum for engineers and designers—intheir roles as educators, researchers, and practitioners interested in learning and in design—to identify and articulate importantaspects of innovation and entrepreneurship in design and engineering education. The remarks summarized below were intended tobring to the community’s attention the entrepreneurs who developed and implemented some truly innovative ideas in engineeringeducation. Many of these ideas are now ‘best practices,’ yet the innovators themselves are largely unrecognized. The story of theseideas and their originators also serve to remind us, as members of engineering faculties, that all too often we are remiss in maintainour institutional memories and passing down our own history.