Teaching Philosophy

Negative feedback loop of context deeper into field, losing contact with everyone else

Philosophy of teaching

• STEm require up front explanation of principles in myriad ways
• abstractions to tackle complicated subjects
• intuit their way around new ideas

Teaching style

• tackle complicated subjects
• distill very large body of materials into essentials
• intuitive way, visual abstractions, intuition pumps

The bigger picture

• This is about more than a "bag of tricks"
• This is about solving, one person at a time, the problem of diversity in technology
• Negative feedback loop, as get deeper into technical field, losing touch with context, fewer can follow, self-selective process
• Process of engineering education is the process of teaching students how to think critically, how to observe and analyze, how to build mental models.