Here you will find links and resources relevant to the MetaKettle Project, the Spring Institute and their goals. Please note that we are not responsible for any content found within the links and resources below.

Links

1. Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

2. Assessing Women and Men in Engineering

"AWE, the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project, provides assessment tools for people involved in K-16 formal and informal educational outreach activities. AWE assessment tools provide researchers and evaluators with high quality data and the possibility of meta-data based on comparisons of responses to consistent quantitative surveys from a variety of organizations or activities."

3. Open Letter to the Engineering Class of 2014

By Erica Lee Garcia, P.Eng.

4. The Big Beacon: A Movement to Transform Engineering Education

"The status quo will not go easily, but go it must. The technological forces changing our world have illuminated a new path, a path leading to a whole new engineer, an engineer appropriate to our time and the foreseeable future, appropriate to the eager young people of our world, appropriate to those who wish to join the excitement of our times actively, directly, wholeheartedly, and now. Therefore, we come together, in the light of growing awareness and heightened urgency, and shine a big beacon upon needed change."

5. Three Habits at Three Levels for Improved Engineering Education

Huffington Post article by David Goldberg and Mark Somerville:

"... we can use the power of habit at three different levels -- at the personal, organizational, and system levels -- to bring about change that attracts and retains bright young people to become the engineers our planet needs."

6. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Inventory

"The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment."

Resources

The Association for New Canadians Diversity Infosheet (PDF)

This two-page infosheet created by the Association for New Canadians includes tips for cross cultural communication, a description of the stages of the settlement process for new canadians, common causes of misunderstandings, diversity myths to debunk, among other useful information.