Why join WEU?
Why should you join the WEU network?
- To foster and grow engineering education at NC State and beyond
- To inspire students and enhance student learning experiences
- To become an advocate for integrating the 6 C’s into classrooms and research cultures
- To collaborate with Faculty in the creation of new approaches to overcome individual and contextual challenges
- To support other educators in their practice
What are the 6 C’s?
- Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value: Curiosity inspires successful engineers to connect ideas to create value in the world.
- Communication, Collaboration, and Character: The combination of engineering skills and personal skills create strong global leaders.
Using the 6 C’s in the classroom connects our students’ schooling to their desire to make the world a better place. The 6 C’s complement the delivery of engineering skills and technical knowledge.
This pedagogy emphasizes discovery, opportunity identification, and value creation and builds on active learning and problem-based learning techniques, adding the “Why should I care?” by explicitly connecting classroom content to the real world.
Three reasons to teach with the 6 C’s:
- Increase student motivation
- Adds purpose and direction; allows students to integrate topics into their lives; decreases anxiety by providing multiple ways to demonstrate learning.
- Increase instructor satisfaction
- Shows students coming alive as they search for pressing problems; invigorates lectures and office hours.
- Increase student learning and retention
- Builds on active learning and problem-based learning techniques which are known to improve learning.