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The New Renaissance Artificers: Harnessing the Power of Creativity in the Engineering Classroom Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

2017 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Engineers’ Orchestra: A Conductorless Orchestra for Our Time

verfasst von : Diana Dabby

Erschienen in: Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Performance skills—leadership, teamwork, and communication—can make or break an engineering career. Critical for success in life, they empower engineering students to reach their greatest promise as professionals, citizens, and individuals. But how to develop these skills in engineering students through experiential practice? Blurring the line between art and science offers one route via creative engagement: playing in a conductorless orchestra. A conductorless orchestra cultivates leadership, teamwork, and communication week-in and week-out during rehearsals and concerts. The only conductorless orchestra in the world composed of engineers currently resides at Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA. Its rationale and blueprint nevertheless translate to other institutions. Developed over the past 14 years, that blueprint features a set of core values with clear expectations, a student-focused organizational structure, bonding and team-building pursuits, seriously fun musical games, and professional feedback. In short, the Engineers’ Orchestra offers engineer-musicians a project-based learning lab where they build—emotionally and intellectually—effective leadership, collaboration, and communication, while doing something they love—creating music.

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Vorheriges Kapitel The New Renaissance Artificers: Harnessing the Power of Creativity in the Engineering Classroom
Nächstes Kapitel Science Fiction as Platform for Problem-Based Learning and Teaching Writing as Design
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In the words of Drath and Palus: “[Meaning-making leadership is] the process of making sense of what people are doing together so that people will understand and be committed.”
 
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Natural in the sense that current anthropological research suggests that music-making evolved as a medium for human bonding once a societal group became too large for grooming (Dunbar, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10" >2012</Citation Ref>).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Engineers’ Orchestra: A Conductorless Orchestra for Our Time
verfasst von
Diana Dabby
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Buch
Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-49351-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-49352-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49352-7_2

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