Chris Rogers - Video Abstract

Chris Rogers, Tufts University, has a strong commitment to teaching, and at Tufts has started a number of new directions, including robotics with LEGO bricks and learning manufacturing by building musical instruments. He was awarded the Carnegie Professor of the Year in Massachusetts in 1998 and is currently the director of the Centre for Engineering Education Outreach (www.ceeo.tufts.edu).

His teaching work extends to the elementary school, where he talks with over 1,000 teachers around the world every year on ways of bring engineering into the younger grades. He has worked with LEGO to develop ROBOLAB, a robotic approach to learning science and maths. ROBOLAB has already gone into over 50,000 schools worldwide and has been translated into 15 languages.

He has been invited to speak on engineering education in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the UK and in the US. He works in various classrooms once a week, although he has been banned from recess for making too much noise. 

• www.tufts.edu/~crogers/