GCS Program Proposal
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| - | + | The [http://grandchallengescholars.org Grand Challenge Scholars Program] (GCSP) is a [http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf National Academy of Engineering] (NAE) program to tackle the educational initiatives needed to address NAE's [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ Grand Challenges] for Engineering in the 21st century. The GSCP is spearheaded by a small group of professors that includes Olin's own Lynn Stein. As one of the three institutions behind the founding of the GCSP, people are watching to see how Olin implements its version of the GCSP - we're very much being catalysts and bellwethers for the kinds of changes in engineering education we would like to see. | |
In other words, the pressure is on. | In other words, the pressure is on. | ||
Revision as of 03:26, 12 February 2010
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Disclaimer
This is a draft. This is very, very, very much a draft.
This is being madly edited over the next 23 hours to hit a deadline. We don't expect everyone to read this in time, or to be interested, or to have time to participate, or to chime in - but we think you need to be informed, and have as much of an opportunity to participate as we're able to manage. So we're trying to go for radical transparency here, because we really, really want alumni participation in this program when it's running, and we need you all to help us design it so it'll be possible for you to do that - and worth your while to do so.
We're coming into the "convergence" phase of this proposal-writing, so while we'd love to hear as many ideas and feedback as you can throw at us, we may not be able to incorporate them all into the proposal at this time. Worry not! There's always a round 2.0! But right now, we're just trying to get this done. If you imagine bleary-eyed, sleepless, incredibly hosed Olin students holed up in a team room just before the Candidates' Weekend crunch, you'll have roughly the right picture.
Please help.
Introduction
The Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) is a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) program to tackle the educational initiatives needed to address NAE's Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century. The GSCP is spearheaded by a small group of professors that includes Olin's own Lynn Stein. As one of the three institutions behind the founding of the GCSP, people are watching to see how Olin implements its version of the GCSP - we're very much being catalysts and bellwethers for the kinds of changes in engineering education we would like to see.
In other words, the pressure is on.
In typical Olin fashion, the program is student designed and student run (which is a pretty shocking thing, considering that other schools implementing this are probably doing things like hiring full-time professional staff to do it and all that). Also in typical Olin fashion, we're doing this out in the open and asking for massive amounts of feedback. Please hit us with it - hard.
How you can help
If you think you can edit the proposal to be better, just edit it - ask forgiveness, not permission.
If you have a comment that's not proposal text, leave it on the talk page (click the "discussion" tab at the top).
If you'd rather do this by email, send your comments to the mailing list at olin-gcs AT lists.olin.makerhouse.com. (You can also subscribe to the list.)
Timeline
- Friday Feb 12, 6PM EST - at this point, we'll be taking a final census of feedback from the list, our inboxes, and this wiki, and rolling it into the draft version that will get...
- Friday, Feb 12, 8PM EST - ...sent to ARB for approval, because they wanted the weekend to read it so that they could...
- Early Next Week - ...approve it, in time for it to be announced
- Friday, Feb 19 - ...at the first Candidates' Weekend.
We'll think about the future after that. The next big thing date is the summit on April 21 but we're not even thinking about that right now.
