What is Pathways? ‣ An ambitious effort to transform
engineering education at over 50 universities by including innovation and entrepreneurship.
‣ Based at Epicenter at Stanford Unviersity, funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by VentureWell.
‣ Purdue provides the strategic protocol, Strategic Doing, that enables university teams to move forward.
What is Strategic Doing? ‣ A collective discipline to form collaborations
quickly, move them toward measurable outcomes, and make adjustments along the way.
Why is this Project Important? ‣ Demonstrates how a new strategy discipline
can be replicated, scaled and sustained over a wide range of universities large and small.
‣ Addresses a critical challenge in U.S. competitiveness: to deliver powerful learning experiences to engineering and engineering technology students.
‣ Demonstrated success in months, not years. Over 120 collaborations launched by 37 schools.
‣ Collaborations include: ‣ Redesigned courses ‣ New, renovated makerspaces ‣ New credentials ‣ New infrastructure (e.g., IP policies) ‣ New non-credit learning
Teams practice Strategic Doing in a variety of different settings. They first learn the discipline at a 2 day launch event in Phoenix. Within weeks, they launch their first collaborations. Working with Purdue and VentureWell, the teams conduct regular monthly reviews (called “30/30’s”). Periodically, the teams get together to exchange learning.
Collaborations take weeks to form, results show up quickly. Cohorts 1-2 have launched over 180 collaborations (left). Cohort 2 accelerated within months of launch in February (right).
Example Strategies (Not a complete list) Launched In Development
Redesigned courses 14 32
New or renovated maker spaces 8 20
Credentials (minors, certificates, degrees)
1 17
Infrastructure (IP policies, new classrooms, new champions)
9 17
Competitions 10 8
Date Source: VentureWell, as of August 2015
For more information:
‣ About Strategic Doing: Peggy Hosea [email protected]
‣ About Pathways: Liz Nilsen [email protected]
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