1. Building a Whole-Brain Experience: Education, Entrepreneurship, and the Importance of Space
Julio M. Ottino
October 21, 2015

2. Ideas & People

3. Mission
Better People
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Ideas and Impact
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4. Four years… for students to emerge with the best possible “first draft” of themselves.

5. What we tell students

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11. Learn to be a whole-brain engineer

12. The broader picture for Northwestern:
Develop whole-brain thinkers in all fields

13. Design Innovation is a structured process that can be applied across disciplines.

14. Changing Models Traditional Hyper-distributed Hyper-connected
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15. NUvention as a Model of Success
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16. Our goal: Augment cognitive skills to include entreprenuerial and design thinking. Startups are a byproduct, not the end goal.

17. How do we foster more hyper-connected coursework
How do we foster more hyper-connected coursework? How do students continue those connections outside of a formal curriculum?

18. What do students do when they can do whatever they want?

19. 29 Studios Across the U.S.
Barnard/Columbia ● Case Western/CIA ● Cornell ● Duke ● Johns Hopkins/MICA ● Michigan State ● MIT ● Northwestern ● Notre Dame ● NYU ● Rensselaer ● Rice ● RISD/Brown ● Stanford ● Alabama ● UC Berkeley ● UC Davis ● UCLA ● UCSD ● Cincinnati ● UIUC ● UNC Chapel Hill ● Oregon ● USC ● Texas ● Vanderbilt ● Virginia Tech ● Wash U ● Yale
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20. Balancing Consumption and Production: Comparing Science and Art

21. Typical Engineering Programs
Consume
Produce
Northwestern Engineering
Consumption and Production Intertwined Throughout
Experiential Courses Connect Undergrads to Grad Students
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22. Universities and Cities

24. The importance of space

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26. We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us
We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us Winston Churchill
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28. The Future is at the Intersection