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.]