My Teacher Role Model: David Wallace of MIT
This video gives tribute to David Wallace, the professor who teaches the iconic 2.009: Product Engineering Processes class at MIT. This class teaches students about the process of designing and engineering innovative, market-ready products. Some of the teams who create these products start their own company based on what they create in this class. The following is a list of how David's students and colleagues described him in the video: Energy is infectious; enthusiastic Artist and scientist Empowering Sensitive to human values Intrinsically humble Strives for perfection; attention to detail Unrelenting drive Leads by example Spirit of having fun Spends hours and hours in the shop with students working on their projects In our Applied Learning Program , we also provide students with challenges where they create market-ready products. We have two spaces in our elementary school that we call the KoLAB spaces; where students w...