Design an engaging, highly interactive learning experience!

When: June 5 - 8, 2023
Where: Philadelphia, PA

Experience the problem solving studio learning environment and transform what it means to teach! Motivate students with a constructivist, highly interactive learning experience that turbocharges their engagement.

Turbocharge student engagement with your own studio learning environment that applies theory and knowledge to complex, real world problems. Join us for the next PSS workshop!

Who Should Attend:
Engineering faculty of any discipline who are interested in creating a significant change in their classroom environment through a studio learning experience that integrates peer learning.

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3 Key Takeaways:

Everything you learn from the facilitation and coaching team and other participants can be immediately applied to your context and topics of interest.

  • Learn the cognitive science principles that underpin how the studio approach works.

  • Put these principles into action, with coaching, as you create your own studio learning experience to pilot at your home institution.

  • Share reflections about the problem-solving studio experience and what made it memorable, engaging and effective.

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Workshop Phases

Each EUFD National workshop consists of three distinct phases, the Quickstart, Meetup, and Press Onward, over the course of a year.

  • 1. QuickStart

    The QuickStart course begins your adventure. You can start your journey immediately after registering. In this self-paced online course, you will begin learning the central ideas of the workshop and how they apply the entrepreneurial mindset (EM). The facilitation team has customized your introduction to the workshops topics and will ask you to identify a candidate project.

  • 2. Meetup

    Within the Meetup course and event, you will interact (and likely even have some fun) with the facilitation team and other participants. The Meetup for this particular workshop will be in-person! Up to thirty participants will meet in Philadelphia, PA from June 5-8, 2023. Learning from each other is always one of the most valuable and memorable parts of any workshop sequence. Individual participants will arrive — and a community will emerge.

  • 3. Press Onward

    Pressing Onward can be transformative. Following the Meetup event you will have a series of online meetings over the course of the year with members of the coaching team, individually or with other participants. The ample time between meetings affords an opportunity to develop your ideas and experiment. Get real results as you apply what you learned and share discoveries along the way. When complete, you'll publish a card on EngineeringUnleashed.com to serve as a resource for the community.

Facilitators and Coaches

Facilitator

Joe Le Doux

Joe Le Doux is a Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University where he is the Executive Director of Learning and Training. His research interests are in student-centered pedagogical approaches including the problem solving studio and story-driven learning. Dr. Le Doux’s current research is focused on understanding how students experience the problem-solving studio (PSS) environment, and how these experiences affect their approaches to learning within the PSS course, as well as in subsequent courses. He earned a B.S. and M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Facilitator & Coach

Carmen Carrion

Carmen is a Biology lecturer at Agnes Scott College and teaches intro biology and Human Anatomy & Physiology. She holds a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning with a concentration in Science Education, and a B.S. and M.S. in Applied Biology. Her research focuses on studying the impact of informal learning environments on science and engineering education. When not teaching she is also a club swim coach and enjoys hiking with her husband and three dogs.

Facilitator & Coach

Sara Schley

Sara Schley is the Director of Learning Sciences at GA Tech in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has an Ed.D. in Human Development/Language Acquisition, an MS in Experimental Psychology, and a BA in Psychology. Her research focuses on working closely with faculty interested in identifying, designing, and implementing inclusive pedagogy strategies, and on interactive classroom practices that increase students' engagement, interaction, collaboration, and inclusion.

Coach

Patti Cyr

Coach

Sabia Abidi

Sabia Abidi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the bioengineering department at Rice University and teaches courses in Systems Physiology, Troubleshooting of Clinical Lab Equipment, and Senior Design. Abidi has a doctorate in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin and completed postdoctoral research at NYU School of Medicine and MIT. Her research interests include experimentation of new classroom methods to encourage student curiosity, engagement and knowledge retention.

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