Business Agility Conference 2023

Dr. Olga Pierrakos and Jim York will be speaking at the Business Agility Conference in New York City on 26-27 April.

Title: Agile, Higher Education, and Educating the Next Generation of Engineers

Abstract:
In 2017, 55 students embarked on pursuing an undergraduate engineering degree just as thousands of other engineering students across the nation did that fall. The difference this cohort faced was that their engineering program did not yet exist. Whereas most new programs have two to four years of planning, this new engineering program would be created just-in-time as the students progressed through their four year journey to become engineers. The founding team arrived on site just six weeks before the students and their goal was to reimagine engineering education in a liberal arts context and ensure the program could be accredited. This is a story of agility in higher education including both its successes and its sacrifices.

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