The document addresses the urgent need for education to adapt to unprecedented global challenges and technological advancements that are rapidly transforming the job market. It emphasizes the importance of equipping students with relevant skills in STEM fields to address issues such as climate change, cybersecurity, and the digital divide, while also highlighting the changing nature of employment due to automation. Ultimately, it advocates for innovative educational approaches, including collaborative learning and experiential training, to foster creativity and practical skills in future engineers.

1. The “E” in STEM: Why We
Can’t Wait
Gregory Washington, PhD
Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine

2. Unprecedented Global Challenges
Level 1
• Climate Change
• Water Scarcity
• Energy Security
• Cyber Security
• Global financial structure
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem
losses
• Fisheries Depletion
• Deforestation
• Infectious Disease
Level 2
– Poverty
– Education
– The Digital Divide
– Urbanization
– Intellectual property
– International labor and
migration
– E-Commerce rules
– Biotechnology rules
– Maritime Safety and
Pollution
Disruptive to our way of lifeEliminate our way of life
Are we educating students to solve the grand challenges
of our generation?

3. Unprecedented Global Competitors
Singapore 2015
Singapore 1965
Shanghai - 1987
Shanghai 2015
Are we educating students to truly compete globally?

4. More than half of the top 10 in demand jobs in 2015 did not exist in 2004
PentiumIntel 4004
Six-Core Xeon 7400Radio- 38 Years TV - 13 Years
Cellphone
7 Years
Internet - 4 Years
Facebook
2 Years
Unprecedented Change
Years to 50 million users
Are we educating students for the job market of the
future?

5. Remember this?

6. Did you think it could wind up here?

7. Five Trends will create new jobs and
eliminate old ones
• Internet of Things
• Wearable Technology
• Computational
Intelligence
• Social Networks
• Data Fusion
These trends an bring forward new opportunities as hundreds of thousands
of smart people have access to software, knowhow, and the 5 items above

8. Record movies Record movies View movies Photographs
Compute
Listen Radio Play Games
Measure Time
Telephone Share pictures Share text
Yellow Pages
Plan route
Forecast
weather
©DassaultSystemes2009
Design
1980: Disconnected Technologies
Listen Music
(mobile!)
2015
Now
integrated in
our pockets
But we STILL educate the same way

9. Grand Opportunities in STEM
9
7/22/2015
• In the next 5 years you
will no longer need
– IDs
– Money
– Credit Cards
– Store cards
– Business Cards
– Photos
– Mail/Mailman
– Paper and Hardback Books
– Bills and notices
– Paper
– Steering Wheels
– Organ Donors?
– Classrooms?

10. Technology is a New Real Competitor
• Probability of Computerization
– Telemarketers – 99%
– Secretarial/Adm. Assistant – 96%
– Accountant/Auditors – 94%
– Retail Salespersons – 92%
– Technical Writers – 89%
– Paralegals – 94%
– Postal Service Clerks – 95%
– Machinists – 65%
– 47% of total US employment is at
risk
The future of Employment: How Susceptible Jobs are to Computerisation; C.B.
Frey, M.A. Osborne

11. Computers and Sensors Worn
on the Body
Everything Connected to the Network
WHAT ARE WEARABLE
TECHNOLOGIES?
WHAT IS THE INTERNET OF THINGS?
WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?
Connectivity

12. Why the market is interesting
Source: Ericsson Mobility Report, “On The Pulse Of The Networked Society,” June 2013
THINGS
PEOPLE
PLACES
50B
THINGS
connected
50
40
30
20
10
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Billions
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1B
PLACES
connected
5B
PEOPLE
connected

13. IOTs Future is Very Bright
Security Monitoring
Smart
Irrigation
Smart
Appliances
Water Quality Monitoring
Pet Location
Smart
Metering
Mold
Detection
Smart Watch
Health Monitor
Out-Patient
Monitor
Wearable
Sensors
Smart Glasses
Cardiac Monitor
Smart Clothing
Location
Monitoring
Energy &
Water Use
Smart
Grids
Pollution
Monitoring
Structural
Monitoring
Urban
Noise Maps
Traffic
Congestion
Smart
Parking
Your City Your Home Your body

14. What can fit in a wearable DEVICE?
Power
Management WiFi + Bluetooth
+ FM + NFC
GPS
3G Cellular SoC
w/Quad-Core
1GHz CPU and
Advanced
Graphics
Memory

15. Watch this!

16. Is Education
changing fast
enough?
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn” – A. Toffler

18. … not at the pace of industry...

19. The Outcomes of our Ed

20. Poh, M.Z., Swenson, N.C., Picard, R.W
Long-Term Brain Activity

21. Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Top Bachelors Majors at US Universities
1. Business
2. General Studies
3. Social Science and History
4. Psychology
5. Health Professions
6. Education
7. Visual and Performing Arts
8. Engineering and Technology
9. Communications and Journalism
10.Computer and Information Science

22. Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Top Bachelors Majors at Global Universities
1. Business (1)
2. General Studies (10)
3. Social Science and History (6)
4. Psychology (9)
5. Health Professions (4)
6. Education (5)
7. Visual and Performing Arts (8)
8. Engineering and Technology (2)
9. Communications and Journalism (7)
10.Computer and Information Science (3)

23. We Need Different Students
• Strong analytical skills.
• Practical ingenuity, creativity;
innovator.
• Global communication skills.
• Business, management skills.
• High ethical standards,
professionalism.
• Dynamic/agile/resilient/flexible.
• Lifelong learner.
• Able to put problems in their
socio-technical and operational
context.
• Adaptive leader, Team Player
• Innovators Mentality
23
The Student of 2020
“It takes a village to raise an engineer”

24. Solutions – Which way do we go?
• Beyond the Common Core
• Create new inventors
• Disrupt the University
Paradigm
– Establish Create and Make
Spaces on Campus
– Experiential Learning
– Embrace Entrepreneurship
• Embrace the Digital
Learning Revolution

25. Common Core
• Common Core: 5 million teachers in 46 states
• Tools are being developed to teach to the skills
that kids need to have.
• Active crowdsourcing is promising
• Under Intense attack
www.sharemylesson.com www.torsh.co www.betterlesson.com

26. Common Core – Con’t
• You must to continue to learn, relearn, and unlearn!
• Use these online tools to help you plan
– Contribute and disseminate
www.learnzillion.com www.khanacademy.org iTunesU

27. Why Kids are the ideal inventors?
Creative
Motivated by
challenges
Not afraid of failure
Resilient
Idealistic
Create Inventors

28. Why Kids are the ideal inventors?
Kelvin Doe, Sierra Leone, created
batteries and generators; started a
radio station for his village from a
deteriorating voltage stabilizer that he
found in the trash.
William Kamkwamba, Malawi, windmill
to power his family’s house using blue
gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials
collected from a scrapyard

29. Girl-power!

33. Laser CutterCNC Machine Sewing
Machine
Scanner
3D Printer
Vinyl Cutter
Modela Milling Machine
Items in a Make - SPace

34. FAB-Camp UCI
• UCI Fab-Camp - This program
gave students “hands on”
project based learning skills
while simultaneously exposing
them to multiple engineering
disciplines
• Students built their own, LED,
Fuel Cell, Hovercraft, model
aircraft, ice cream, etc.
• They also learned the basics
of advanced manufacturing
with a focus on how to use
CAD software and 3-D printers
• FABCamp 2015 June 22nd –
Aug 7th (6 - one week
sessions)
https://www.facebook.com/FABcampUCI

35. http://www.triolith.com/2011/08/08/design-insigths-about-diablo-3-auction-house/
Novel Partnerships
works out when there is common purpose and pursuit
• We need more collaboration
between University and K-12
• Engineering must be at the
table along with the Sciences
and Education
• NGO’s play a key role
• Industry is our greatest
untapped resource
• Adopt a School Program
– Industry Partner
– University Partner
– Parent support group

36. Image Source: Jamil Salmi, World Bank
Online Education: Tomorrow’s Classroom
• Stanford University’s
Sebastian Thrun and
Google’s Peter Norvig
• Allowed anyone,
anywhere to attend
online, take quizzes,
ask questions and
even get grades for
free.
• In the first few hours –
5000 students
enrolled, 160,000 by
the beginning of class
• Students hailed from
more than 190
different countries
(Ukraine, Australia,
China, US)

37. We should be concerned... but?
1. Electrification
2. Automobile
3. Airplane
4. Water Supply and Distribution
5. Electronics
6. Radio and Television
7. Agricultural Mechanization
8. Computers
9. Telephone
10. Air Conditioning
11. Highways
12. Spacecraft
13. Internet
14. Imaging
15. Household Appliances
16. Health Technologies
17. High-Performance Materials
18. Laser and Fiber Optics
19. Nuclear Technologies
20. Petroleum and Petrochemical
Technologies
• We were able to do this in spite of the fact that in 1900 the US Population
was 76 million and China’s was 467 million (6.14 times larger than ours).
China’s Population in 2013 was only 4.33 times larger than ours.
•What about people like me?
Great Achievements of the Last Century

38. Major 21st Century Innovations
. . . . And many more!