Speeches about teaching
- Teaching Students to Dream
A speech at the Graduate Teacher Certificate ceremony, April 2000; an abridged version appeared in College Teaching, Winter 2006 - My First Semester of Teaching
A speech for new graduate teaching assistants, January 2000 - Courage in the Classroom
A speech at the Graduate Teacher Certificate ceremony, April 1999; appeared in Grad Times, May/June 1999; an abridged version appeared in College Teaching, Spring 2006 - Love, Passion, and the Amateur Teacher
A speech at the Graduate Teacher Certificate ceremony, April 1998; appeared in Grad Times, June/July 1998; an abridged version appeared in College Teaching, Summer 2006 - What Do We Teach When We Teach? Ethical Values in the Classroom
A speech at the Graduate Teacher Certificate ceremony, April 1997; an abridged version appeared in Grad Times, Summer 1997, and in the IEEE/ASEE Interface, November 1997
Other speeches
- To Be an American
Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Education class session, February 2013 - Ethics and Social Responsibility for Scientists and Engineers
Friday Forum lecture, University YMCA, February 2009 - True Confessions of a Former Campus Bureaucrat: Administration, Wisdom, and Trust
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, July 2003 - The University and Public Service
Remarks at the Graduate Programs Convocation Ceremony, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, May 1999 - The Graduate School and Research Integrity
A talk at the Conference on Managing Research Integrity, University of Michigan, February 1998 - The Ideal Graduate Student
A speech at the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, November 1997 - Engineering, Politics, and Government
A speech at the Eta Kappa Nu initiation ceremony, November 1992
Videos of public lectures
- What Is Professional Responsibility in Engineering?
A webinar sponsored by the Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering, February 2020 - The Last Lecture: College Teaching as Professional Practice, Scholarly Activity, and Transformational Leadership
A public “last lecture” to celebrate my retirement, October 2019 - Engineering Ethics and Engineering Education
A public lecture sponsored by the Daniels Fund Faculty Fellows Program, Colorado School of Mines, April 2017 - Structured Pairing in an Electronics Laboratory and A Model of Research Mentoring
CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University, September 13, 2015
Essays
- In the Footsteps of the Pioneers: My Journey in Engineering Ethics Education
An essay for a forthcoming book on the history of engineering ethics education in the United States, May 2019 - Moments of Inertia: Toward an Agenda for Sociological Research on Why Engineering Professors Resist Changes in Pedagogy and Curriculum
A white paper for the Social Dynamics of Campus Change workshop, National Academy of Engineering, April 26-27, 2006. Published in The Acceptance and Diffusion of Innovation: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Instructional and Curricular Change in Engineering, ed. R. Splater-Roth, N. Fortenberry, and B. Lovitts, pp. 71-77. American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 2007. - Response to the Best Practices Memo of the Computing Research Association
Appeared in Computing Research News, November 1999 - Life Among the Engineers: Basic Research in an Applied Discipline
A position statement for the ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, June 1996 - My Year at NSF
An essay on my year as a program director at the National Science Foundation; an abridged version appeared in ASEE Prism, June 1992