Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio artwork

Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013 - Audio

English - March 20, 2013 12:11 - 39 minutes
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Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achievement of success? Do we really want our engineers to live their lives by the mantra ‘Avoid failure and you too can be a success’? This lecture will offer a wholly upbeat alternative: re-wiring the engineering mind to be optimistic, life-enriching and mind-blowing, arming itself to do amazing stuff.