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

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

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