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Woodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education (MIT)
_This is part of a series of articles linking the work of MIT’s emeritus faculty members with the current state of research in their given fields._ When Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was an MIT student in mechanical engineering, most of his classes involved paper-and-pencil design exercises with predetermined “right” solutions; actual class-related construction work tended to be limited to small test devices, built by the book. But having grown up taking things apart and putting them back together, he had a strong affinity for making things, and for making them work. As he transitioned from student to teacher at MIT, that inclination guided Flowers to take an innovative approach to education: He developed a hands-on, project-centered mechanical engineering class, which has since been widely imitated both at MIT and elsewhere. He also collaborated in the creation of a popular and influential robotics competition for elementary and high school students and hosted a television series that helped draw new generations of students into science and engineering. Flowers started developing his educational approach to that first class, “Introduction to Design and Manufacturing,” as a teaching assistant. Known originally in MIT’s course-numbering system as 2.70, and ...
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