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| DATE | 2020-11-13 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] teaching to think...
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-boeing-execs-20-million-bet-on-teaching-college-students-to-think-11605283399?mod=hp_featst_pos4
A Boeing Exec’s $20 Million Bet on Teaching College Students to Think
John D. Stoll
11-13 minutes
BLACKSBURG, Va.—It’s been a choppy ride for many of the folks relying on
paychecks from Boeing Co. BA +4.34% Slammed by the pandemic and the
grounding of its most important plane, the aerospace giant said recently
that it expects to end 2021 with 30,000 fewer workers than it started
this year.
“Decisions like these are not easy,” Boeing Chief Executive David
Calhoun said on a webcast. These job cuts come as the airline industry
weathers an unprecedented travel drought and Boeing endures a “year that
is among the most difficult in our 100-year history.”
Even as Mr. Calhoun shows current employees the exit, he is pushing
forward a program at Virginia Tech, his alma mater, designed to better
prepare the next-generation’s workforce to avoid a similar fate.
Boeing CEO David Calhoun visits with students at the Calhoun Discovery
Program at Virginia Tech last December.
Photo: Virginia Tech
An accountant by training, the 63-year-old executive recently told me
Corporate America mislabels what he calls a “discovery gap” as the
“skills gap.” Colleges, he said, do a yeoman’s job churning out
competent coders, scientists and engineers. Such skills are in long
supply. Where they fall short is teaching how to think outside the
cubicle or beyond the screen in front of them.
“We’re now trying to solve for things outside just the raw technology,
and we have very few people who are really skilled at doing that kind of
thing,” Mr. Calhoun said. Creating autonomous planes that don’t need a
physical pilot in the cockpit (think pilotless cargo aircraft or urban
air taxis) or repairing flawed product programs require as much
understanding of how humans are designed as machines are.
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