School of Engineering seminars look at learning and funding issues

James R. Martin II, dean of the Swanson School of Engineering, will host two public seminars this month of interest to faculty and staff from throughout the University.

“War Rooms, Blue Teams, and the Paradox of the Red Queen: Optimally Supporting the Diverse Needs of Faculty in Hyper-Competitive Funding Environments”
10-11:15 a.m. March 25, 102 Benedum Hall

Forrest Masters, professor and associate dean for research and facilities at the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, will share insights about the valuable role that institutions play in helping research-oriented faculty members position their programs for success, pursue high value contracts and grants, and earn repeat business — taking into account career stage/progression and the synergistic benefit of working in multidisciplinary teams. This is the first of the seminar series for Building Exponential Research Capacity Initiative from the Organizational Innovation Lab.

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“Reinventing the 21st Century University for Co-Shaping Societal Transformation,” presented by MIT scholar Otto Scharmer and colleague Eva Pomeroy
11 a.m.-noon March 26, University Club, Ballroom B

Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and founder of the Presencing Institute. He and Pomeroy, social innovator in residence at Concordia University, will discuss how we can reinvent our universities and learning systems in ways that put the learner in the driver’s seat of profound societal change, and how we can reinvent our pathways of learning in ways that give all learners access to new social technologies that empower them to pioneer and co-shape a society which is more inclusive, sustainable, co-creative and aware.

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