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
- Incorporating Ethics Activities into Technical Engineering Courses
A webinar for the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, April 18, 2025 - My Career in Computing: From Complexity Theory to Education Research
A colloquium talk as part of my application for an affiliate appointment in the School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, November 18, 2024 - How do Engineers Understand and Experience Ethics in Professional Practice?
A research talk at Arizona State University, November 12, 2024 - What Is Professional Responsibility in Engineering?
A webinar sponsored by the Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering, February 25, 2020 - The Last Lecture: College Teaching as Professional Practice, Scholarly Activity, and Transformational Leadership
A public “last lecture” to celebrate my retirement from Purdue University, October 3, 2019 - Engineering Ethics and Engineering Education
A public lecture sponsored by the Daniels Fund Faculty Fellows Program, Colorado School of Mines, April 4, 2017 - Structured Pairing in an Electronics Laboratory and A Model of Research Mentoring
CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University, September 13, 2015 - So You Thought Computers Could Do Anything: Some Provably Unsolvable and Infeasible Computational Problems
Saturday Physics for Everyone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 26, 1996. [The 1992 date in the video is incorrect.]
