Learning Engineering Toolkit

CHAPTER 4 Learning Engineering is Engineering

by Avron Barr, Brandt Dargue, Jim Goodell, and Brandt Redd

Learning engineering is a process and practice that applies the learning sciences using human-centered engineering design methodologies and data-informed decision-making to support learners and their development.

Without Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau and her team of engineers and scientists, large-scale production of penicillin wouldn’t have been possible during World War II. Many more lives would have been lost, and it might have impacted the outcome of the war—and the world as we know it today.

Margaret was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) trained chemical engineer. This chapter features stories from people trained as engineers ...