With the new academic year beginning shortly, students, faculty and staff returning to higher education or arriving for the first time face uncertainty. There is anxiety about a fall term like no other.
Our responses to the pandemic are helping us reimagine the future of higher education. Instead of lamenting what’s lost, let’s focus on what we’ve gained. Many of our adjustments to teaching and learning, student engagement and research to adapt to COVID-19 have shown us the way to a better version of higher education. The future our students deserve can be fashioned by heeding the lessons learned from experience over the past few months. Read my blueprint in The Conversation.
Higher learning at McMaster Engineering this fall Michael Justason, assistant professor in the W Booth School of Engineering Practice & Technology, shares how he's using lightboard technology to teach this fall on CHCH TV.
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McMaster receives $1.3 million to support job seekers in the automotive and manufacturing sectors McMaster’s Career Ready Fund Automotive will be receiving $1 million to help small and medium-sized businesses in the automotive and advanced manufacturing sectors hire co-op students from McMaster. As well, the MMRI Industry Training Program, through Ontario RapidSkills, will be receiving $300,000 to help under- and unemployed workers with previous automotive and manufacturing training and experience.
Engineering education for a virtual world Hear the stories of three more McMaster educators -- Mohamed Bakr, Shelir Ebrahimi and Cameron Churchill -- who have redesigned their teaching approach for a virtual world.
Research Spotlight: Bringing to market a way to transport vaccines without refrigeration Carlos Filipe and Sahar Esmaeili Samani are part of a team working with vaccine manufacturers to store and transport vaccines safely without refrigeration. They speak about the research and the startup, Elarex, on Episode 4 of the Big Ideas for a Changing World podcast. (The above photo was taken in 2019.)
McMaster hosts international nuclear energy experts in virtual hackathon Together with the Organization for Economic Development (OECD)'s Nuclear Energy Agency's Education, Skills and Technology Framework and the NSERC SMART-CREATE Program, McMaster hosted more than 70 nuclear experts, students and government representatives for the first-ever Small Modular Reactors Hackathon.
