Posts Tagged ‘research’
Research: How Change Happens in Engineering Education
Engineering departments are complex systems. To transform them, we need teams. The most productive of these teams follow a discipline to design and guide their conversations. These conversations lead to…
Read MoreResearch Update: Mental Contrasting
In Strategic Doing, moving from “What could we do?” to “What should we do” involves evaluating a number of potential strategic opportunities using our “Big Easy” criteria. The Big Easy…
Read MoreHelping Kauffman Foundation Move Entrepreneurial Research to the Next Level
For the past month, we have been working closely with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to take entrepreneurial research to the next level. The Foundation, beginning with its decision to…
Read MoreLab Releases New Research on Effectiveness of Agile Strategy
Last week, we released a paper and a presentation at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference. From 2013-2016, we worked with the Pathways program of the National Center…
Read MoreNASA’s Life Science Research Capabilities Team
The Lab has conducted our third Strategic Doing workshop with NASA scientists and administrators. Our prior work focused on 1) developing a strategic action plan for Space Biology, and 2)…
Read MoreHelping the Kauffman Foundation move entrepreneurial research
We’ve been working with the Kauffman Foundation, as they begin moving their investments in entrepreneurship research to the next level. Specifically, the foundation is looking to: Strengthen translational research in…
Read MoreConnecting to the Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research
The Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research has become one of the centers on campus that has embraced agile strategy has a way to build faculty industry collaborations more quickly. This…
Read MoreTranslational research in space life sciences
We are working on an exciting and challenging assignment. How can we accelerate translational research in space life sciences? This involves designing complex collaborations between NASA’s Space Biology Program and…
Read MoreMapping research experiences for Mechanical Engineering
As part of an NSF grant to transform Purdue’s School of Mechanical Engineering, we are forming faculty – student – staff teams. Each team is focused on a different dimension…
Read MoreCivility and the research university
In a global economy that runs on knowledge and networks, research universities occupy a unique, keystone position. Former NYU president John Sexton outlined this role in a 2005 speech, “Dogmatism…
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