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== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linking Art and Science: Use Your WHOLE Brain <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The essence of engineering is the use of logical constructs that creatively solve our everyday problems. So naturally, engineers are most effective when they are masters of science and are artists coherently — or in other words, when they are masters of both sides of their brains. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The importance of this topic can be seen everywhere. From company initiatives like Ford’s that create workshops to inspire their engineers to better create their products to university powerpoints that try to implement better ways of brainstorming that inspire innovation — the essence of being able to creatively solve is stressed. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why? Probably due to the fact that engineers without abstract thought are good enough to improve on what already exists, but in order to shake the market or shape the future, you need engineers who hold that complete potential. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So how is UD’s Brain doing?  Here’s what we’ve heard: <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m a STEM major and I have no idea what’s happening on the other side of campus, and I’m pretty sure they don’t know what happening on mine</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was mainly pushed into engineering for the money</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineering is all about math and science</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was a computer engineer but felt that the part of me that wanted to know more about the world and improving upon it was left behind, so I changed majors</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you were so interested and well versed in our english class i thought you were an english major</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you’re gonna get somewhere because you won’t follow the stereotypes, mechanical birds vs. feathers **</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">there are hardly any groups of friends that have diverse majors</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we notice that the business school better prepares their students for networking while the engineering school produces students who are more equip to work on teams and solve problems, but quite frankly to be effective in either career you need both of those skills.</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does this mean?<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our students don’t feel connected with other important parts of our campus</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our students aren’t easily able to connect with students of diverse backgrounds and interest</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the fatal view/practice of producing engineers who are solely human calculators are hindering those who could blossom in the field</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">basic strengths that could better prepare all of our students aren’t completely introduced and therefore reinforce those stereotypes</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So what can we do?<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starting small: program that better prepares our engineers for their full potential</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what this could become: BE an Engineer in your field (all majors - projects on campus, off campus, like an engineer)</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does this produce?<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">students with a better understanding of their potential within their field</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">students with a better understanding of other fields</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">produces: intercommunication between both sides of campus, lowers confusion within the undeclared community</li></ul> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“STEM is how we evolve as a species. Art is how we are able to live with ourselves during the process.” --Khalilah Manson<div> </div> ==

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