Professor Woodie Flowers on Educational Reform

[dtengineering]

Ironically, the LACK of hands-on design/build projects as part of the curriculum in Engineering at UBC (back in the late 80's, early 90's) was one of the reasons I left engineering to teach tech studies.

Since then, my job has been pretty much 100% design/build projects! Not always with the budget that I want, of course, but often projects of my own design.

If you are at university, or looking to switch careers, and are willing to give up a bit of salary for a bit of security (and some half-decent holidays) and want to play a hands-on role in educational reform, the school system can always do with more people with an engineering background.

Not many people, after all, get to have "build cool robots with kids" as part of their job description.

Jason