Sketch Model / Presented by Olin College of Engineering

Sara Hendren (host), Erhardt Graeff, Amon Millner, Lynn Andrea Stein, Mimi Onuoha, Erin Cech, Matt Wisnioski, James Malazita

A new audio series presented by Olin College of Engineering that delves into the engineering classroom and looks at how perspectives from the arts, humanities, and the social sciences shape the "why" and "should" questions about the technologies we build. It is created, hosted, and produced by Sara Hendren and edited by Brian Funck.

Episodes

  1. 08/19/2022

    Sketch Model Episode 3

    In episode three of Sketch Model, Sara is joined by Olin College's Lynn Andrea Stein, professor of computer and cognitive science. In this episode, the podcast takes a look at the origins of our own institution: Olin College of Engineering. Olin was started a little over 20 years ago to reinvent engineering education for the 21st century. What would engineers need to know and experience? And then what kinds of curricular structures might bring those ideas to life? There was a partner year before the college even opened its doors, where students came to a not-yet-finished campus and thought it through, alongside faculty with a wide latitude and a lot of imagination. We wanted to hear about what that felt like in the 1990s from one of our founding faculty members. Stein takes us to that moment in engineering education more broadly: startup culture, the early days of the internet, and the need for design in engineering education. Sketch Model / Presented by Olin College of Engineering is a new audio series about the engineering classroom and how the humanistic disciplines of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences shape the "why" and "should" questions about the technologies we build. The podcast will talk about some of the surprising trends that are happening in engineering education now and will discuss the history of ethics and politics among engineers over the last century. Download the episode transcript  Sketch Model is created, hosted, and produced by Sara Hendren and edited by Brian Funck. Follow Olin College on Twitter Learn more about Olin College of Engineering

    27 min
  2. 08/18/2022

    Sketch Model Episode 2

    In episode two of Sketch Model, Sara is joined by scholars Matthew Wisnioski and James Malazita, as the series takes a look at the history of engineering education to find some clues about how we got to the familiar pattern of depoliticization in engineering education. Why do social and political concerns about technology come up regularly for engineers only to be smothered pretty easily, by a sense that technological progress is inevitable and impossible to tame? Wisnioski is an interdisciplinary historian in science technology and society at Virginia Tech, a senior fellow at the Institute for Creativity, the Arts and Technology and a co-founder of the Human Centered Design, Interdisciplinary Graduate Education program. Malazita is assistant professor in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with an appointment in the program in Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences. Sketch Model / Presented by Olin College of Engineering is a new audio series about the engineering classroom and how the humanistic disciplines of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences shape the "why" and "should" questions about the technologies we build. The podcast will talk about some of the surprising trends that are happening in engineering education now and will discuss the history of ethics and politics among engineers over the last century. Download the episode transcript Sketch Model is created, hosted, and produced by Sara Hendren and edited by Brian Funck. Follow Olin College on Twitter Learn more about Olin College of Engineering

    47 min

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A new audio series presented by Olin College of Engineering that delves into the engineering classroom and looks at how perspectives from the arts, humanities, and the social sciences shape the "why" and "should" questions about the technologies we build. It is created, hosted, and produced by Sara Hendren and edited by Brian Funck.