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Episode 14 - Barbara Oakley

Prepare to be starstruck, folks. Episode 14’s guest is Dr. Barbara Oakley: Barbara Oakley, a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University, is a best-selling author and teacher of the world’s most popular massive open online course (MOOC), “Learning How to Learn.” Oakley started studying engineering much later than many engineering students, because her original intention had been to become a linguist. Enlisting in the U.S. Army right after high school, she spent a year studying Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. The Army eventually sent Oakley to the University of Washington, where she received her first degree–a B.A. in Slavic languages and literature. Eventually, she served four years in Germany as a signal officer and rose to become a captain. After her commitment ended, she decided to leave the Army and study engineering to better understand the communications equipment she had been working with. Five years later, Oakley received a second degree: a B.S. in electrical engineering. In the meantime, she worked several fishing seasons as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers up in the Bering Sea and wrote a book about that experience: Hair of the Dog: Tales from a Russian Trawler. As one of her captains used to enjoy reminding her: “You know too much, it’s time to kill you.” (It rhymes in Russian.) Oakley also spent a season as the radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, where she met her husband of 33 years, Philip Oakley. (They were married as soon as they got ‘off the ice,’ in New Zealand, and have two daughters as well as two adopted sons who are originally from Kosovo.) With the electrical engineering degree in hand, Oakley settled down and spent three years working as a instrumentation and controls engineer at a laser research and development firm near Seattle. The couple moved to the Detroit area in 1989, and Oakley worked for Ford briefly and then began doing consulting and attending Oakland University part time while her children were small. She received an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering in 1998, joining the faculty upon graduation. Oakley’s work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. She has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, which described her work as “revolutionary.” Oakley, a fellow of both the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and IEEE, is the recipient of numerous honors, including the McGraw Prize (2023), Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year (2018), ASEE’s Chester F. Carlson Award for outstanding technical innovation in engineering education (2015), and National Science Foundation New Century Scholar (1999). https://learningcosmos.substack.com/p...