High stakes teaching
ENGR333
Colleague Jeremy Van Antwerp and I presented a paper on High Stakes Teaching (HST) at the 2026 Christian Engineering Conference. The paper is titled “High-stakes teaching: Lessons from two decades of problem-based engineering education.”
“High Stakes Teaching” is a term coined by Jeremy for the ENGR333 projects I have developed and assigned in the previous decades. Our paper
- explains the educational theory behind the projects,
- discusses the process I use to develop the projects each semester,
- describes some outcomes of the projects, and
- identifies virtue formation in students as a benefit this pedagogy.
To open the presentation, we played this video from the Fall 2021 ENGR333 class.
Until the proceedings are posted at the archive of the Christian Engineering Society Conference Proceedings, I’m posting a draft of our paper here.