Sorin Adam Matei
Education

Trade off as a way of thinking: An interdisciplinary undergraduate course and learning experience in technology / STEM education at Purdue Polytechnic

Sorin Adam Matei
Trade Off Curve
Trade Off Curve

In Spring 2015, together with my colleagues, Michael Smith, Abrar Hammoud, and Davin Huston I developed a multidisciplinary learning experience whose main goal is to help students acquire competencies related to problem formulation, design thinking, ethical and critical thinking, advanced persuasive speaking, and deep reading. Creativity doubled by rigorous research are also a part of the process.

The course serves technology students within Purdue’s competency-baed education Transdisciplinary Studies Program. The program is part of the Purdue Polytechnic and is a major attempt to reconsider the manner and goals for undergraduate teaching education in STEM. The course was also inspired by my collaboration with Fatma Mili in the Transform Stem Program (http://transformstem.org)

The course focuses on a series of projects that train the students to become problem solvers and complex storytellers. Thus, the course has two goals, one substantive and the other methodological.

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Sorin Adam Matei

Purdue University

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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