Many of the jobs and professions being recruited for in 2030 don’t exist today. As technology evolves and science and engineering become more pervasive in developing solutions to our pressing global challenges, the arts, linguistics and culture play an important role in developing interpersonal, communication and visual and critical thinking skills.

As part of our Perspectives series, SmithGroup’s Higher Education studio and its panel of guests will explore the elements of the STEAM framework and how curricula and learning environments are shaping with some of the first STEAM programs happening here in the Bay Area. How does the broadening of the traditional STEM spectrum impact the growing diversity in the science, technology and engineering fields?

PANELISTS

Rosa Sheng (Moderator)

Vice President | Studio Leader | JEDI Director

SmithGroup

George Lin

Architect Program Coordinator

City College of San Francisco

Ricky Nierva

Production Designer

Spire Production Studios

Carmen Domingo, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Science & Engineering

Professor of Biology

San Francisco State University

Victor Tam

Dean, Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

Santa Rosa Junior College

Where There's A Spark, There's STEAM