Dr. David Ruth

Provost, University of Austin · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. David Ruth oversees academic leadership at the University of Austin, where he previously served as founding Dean of the Center for STEM. Prior to UATX, he served as a U.S. Navy Captain and spent over a decade as a Permanent Military Professor of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy.

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Opinion
Dr. Ruth: Scientific universalism is increasingly coming under fire in academia
“Scientific validity gives not a rip about your personal preferences. And that, that, that, six years ago, nobody would have argued with that. Today, that's coming under fire.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 13:49 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Ruth: Top-tier university students rarely see primary instructors and get depressed
“You can send your kid to whatever you think the top tier school is, they're gonna see their instructor of record, almost never. They're gonna have a TA that they may or may not understand, and they're gonna be depressed.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 30:04 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
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Dr. Ruth: Naval Academy's 2020 lesson plans were unchanged from 1987
“The lesson plans that my colleagues were teaching at the Nail Academy in 2020 were the same ones that I received in 1987.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 10:34 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Dr. Ruth: UATX STEM program will not allow identity politics
“As long as I'm here, we won't have any nonsense.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 14:21 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Ruth: Most technical classes train students to be third-rate computers
“Most technical classes now, they prepackage the problem for you, and they say, here's an equation, solve for x, or, you know, and you spend all of this time being a third-rate computer.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 23:05 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Ruth: Employers find college graduates ill-equipped with irrelevant skills
“I think that employers are saying the, these students don't know how to do very well what they were taught and nothing they were taught is that relevant to what I want them to do.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 25:02 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Challenge students to break complex technical systems to force deep comprehension
“Another way to teach it is you challenge them to beat it. So see if you can. No, so not have them do it, but. But give them the challenge. How would you beat that system? If our goal were to do- How would you blow up the nuclear? To be very clear to all of you…”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 28:48 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Ruth: Non-Parametric Statistics Can Detect Subtle Multi-Variable System Anomalies
“Sometimes things will subtly change where everything's changing a little bit, No one is changing enough to give you the high temperature alarm or the low oil pressure. If you look at all of them, you look at all of them without the assumptions that people typi…”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 8:45 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Ruth: UATX is meeting with The Boring Company on engineering curriculum
“So he and I were corresponding this week, in fact, and his lead talent guy and I are meeting next week at Boring. We're gonna start talking about what this is gonna look like.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 17:30 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Ruth: UATX plans full engineering program suite within 10 years
“We're gonna, every year or two, we're gonna add a new program so that by the time we get to, say, the ten-year point or so, we're gonna have a full suite of engineering opportunities”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 32:11 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
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Dr. Ruth: Navy Submarine Powered Port of Haifa During Strike Outage
“So our first 24 hours in Haifa was as a portable nuclear power plant for the port of Haifa.”
Dr. David Ruth Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 5:34 Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale Apr 25, 2024 22m
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