In episode one of Sketch Model, Sara is joined by Erin Cech, associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, where she also has an appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Cech, who's been looking under the hood at engineering education for a long time, has found some counterintuitive and troubling things happening in the engineering classroom. In this episode she'll tell us about it: how engineering students grow less interested in social and civic matters over the course of a four year education and what it might mean to redress those trends.

Sketch Model / Presented by Olin College of Engineering is a new audio series about the engineering classroom and how the humanistic disciplines of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences shape the "why" and "should" questions about the technologies we build. The podcast will talk about some of the surprising trends that are happening in engineering education now and will discuss the history of ethics and politics among engineers over the last century.

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Sketch Model is created, hosted, and produced by Sara Hendren and edited by Brian Funck.
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