Learning How to Change the World

How to Change the World is a two-week programme that brings all 700 second-year engineering students together in a design studio to tackle some of the toughest of global problems. There are many challenges to running such a large programme, in particular: - making certain that teaching academics are comfortable with a role as facilitator, as opposed to the ‘sage on the stage’ - creating a structured journey that works for students and facilitators - coordinating, finding and managing external partners who are able to join us for the day and take part in the facilitation process with individual teams We would like to prepare our students to: - demonstrate leadership with an awareness of social, ethical and political responsibility - work in interdisciplinary teams and build on each others skills and expertise across disciplines - solve problems through innovative and entrepreneurial thinking - build networks that boost employment prospects Did we meet any of these objectives? What are the barriers to doing so? Senior teaching fellow, Dr Kate Roach will lead the presentation and discuss the challenges from the point of view of teaching and curriculum design. HtCtW alumni, Georgina Hunter (along with one other) will feedback their good and bad learning experiences from last year’s programme, Pecha Kucha style. We will end by making pooled recommendations for improving such programmes in the future.