Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education [ETL Looks Back]

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Richard Miller was credited with reimagining undergraduate engineering education at Olin College, where he was the founding director. Miller challenged us to consider who we teach, what we teach, and how that teaching reaches students. He spoke about shifting the focus from showing up in class to learn, to learning 24/7; from learning in isolation to learning as part of a community; and to problem solving as the foundational mindset to design-centered thinking. Miller's vision has undoubtedly paved the way for a transformative approach to engineering education.

This episode was originally published on May 25, 2016.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Today is a very, very special day for me.
0:21.6	Rick Miller, our speaker, is a personal hero of mine.
0:25.6	He is the founding president of Olin College.
0:28.6	And I've been watching the evolution of this school for the last 15 years since I first met him.
0:34.6	And I'm incredibly impressed with a wonderful, wonderful entrepreneurial educator
0:40.2	he is.
0:41.6	This school is a model of innovation and today we're going to hear the story of the founding
0:47.5	of the school and the lessons that he's learned.
0:50.2	Please join me in welcoming Rick Miller.
1:00.0	Well, it's a real privilege to be here. Stanford's Technology of Ventures Program has been an inspiration to generations of people.
1:06.0	And Tina in particular is my inspiration.
1:09.0	She's the go-to person about learning about creativity,
1:11.3	which is really critical for what we're doing. So I want to talk to you today about Olin,
1:17.6	where it came from and what we've learned. So it's sort of the outline for the talk,
1:23.9	and the first is about the founding of Olin. And let me point out that this is a picture
1:29.1	of Franklin Olin, who's the guy who created the revenue that generated Olin College. He's a
1:35.1	Cornell graduate, 1880s. He retired in 1938 from the Olin Corporation and he died in 1951.
1:43.3	But his legacy is what created Olin.
1:46.0	So for example, there's 78 buildings on 58 University campuses that say Olin Hall.
1:51.0	So there's an Olin Hall, for example, at Vanderbilt.
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