1. Discuss benefits and costs of pursuing a scientific career. 2. Carl Sagan said, “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them.” Do you agree? If it is a problem, discuss what the adults can do to avoid it. 3. Discuss the abilities that all engineering students should have by the time they graduate from university and how to develop those abilities.
4. Discuss whether there is a divide between sciences and humanities.
5. Discuss the strategies to get yourselves motivated.
6. Discuss students’ academic dishonest practices and the measures to take to cultivate students’ virtue of honesty. 7. Do you agree with the statement that “Necessity is the mother of invention.”? Why or why not? 8. Who is greater: Jobs or Edison? 9. Discuss what makes a dream team.
10. Discuss what scientists should do to improve the public’s trust in scientific knowledge and what the general public should do to contribute to the development of science and technology.
11. Discuss how the digital age has changed our lives.