When Barb Oakley was growing up in the 1960s and early ’70s, nobody took her for a future engineer. “I just rode horses all the time,” she says when I ask what interested her as a girl. She was ...

Barbara Oakley flunked her way through high school math and science courses and didn’t start studying the subjects seriously until her mid-20s. Now, she is a professor of engineering at Oakland ...

Image courtesy of Tarcher/Penguin. Critically acclaimed author and Oakland University professor of engineering Barbara Oakley failed her high school math class, but later found ways to tackle and ...

One of my engineering students recently approached me with a mixture of anger and befuddlement, thrusting toward me a quiz sheet covered with red pen marks: "I just don't see how I could have done so ...