ABOUT THIS EPISODE
"Discipline trumps talent, every time."Dan Ball didn't plan on engineering, a blown-out shoulder his senior year sent him to West Point instead. Decades later he's a retired Army officer and Professor of Practice running Texas A&M's Engineering Academy, a program that's grown enrollment 200% and opened engineering to students who never thought they had a shot.What we get into:
- Building access: how the Academy model reaches first-gen and Pell-eligible students
- Communication over GPA: the real predictor of engineering career success
- Transformational vs. servant leadership, and the young-commander story behind it
- Discipline, and why "life is not linear"
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