The Art and Engineering Design (AED) iTeam took second place in the “Integrating Knowledge; Deriving Genius” award category at this year’s Engineering Open House held March 12th and 13th. AED held a 3-D design competition for a new team logo and handed out key chains with their current logo to visitors. To see more about the demonstrations and projects that were acknowledged during the event, visit here. Congratulations Art and Engineering Design iTeam!
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg just gave a talk on “The Perils and Pleasures of Interdisciplinarity” at a Workshop on the Challenges in Top-Down, Bottom-up and Computational Approaches in Synthetic Biology. The talk is available in the viewer below:
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg is at the University of Nottingham today to deliver a talk, “Is Computer Science Philosophically Weak?” An abstract of the talk is available here and powerpoints for the presentationa are available at www.slideshare.net/deg511 or in the viewer below:
iFoundry’s iCommunity will be visiting Research Park on March 31st from 5-7:30 pm. This trip is being planned by the Service and Systems Engineering iTeam, that has been working with The State Farm Research and Development Center since the fall. The trip will contain a tour of the RDC as well as discussion about future opportunities for students at Research Park. For more information about the trip, visit here.
Thom Tremblay, an Autodesk solutions specialist, will be on campus March 17th and will be speaking at iFoundry’s iCommunity meeting. Tremblay will be speaking about and demonstrating Autodesk Inventor’s newest feature, “Alias” from 5:15-6:15 pm. The iCommunity meeting will take place in Engineering Hall room 106B1. Mr. Tremblay has worked for Autodesk for eight years and is a dedicated spokesman on how technology can improve the work quality for both engineers and designers. For more information on Mr. Tremblay and to read his blog, visit here.
Jonathan Naber, a junior at the UIUC, was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize mid afternoon on March 3, 2010. Naber, guided by his passion for helping the less fortunate, developed an affordable prosthetic arm for people in underdeveloped countries using recycled materials. Naber worked with his team, Illini Prosthetics Team in putting together the arms and plans to travel to Guatemala in summer 2010 to test the prototype in a prosthetics clinic. Congratulations Jonathan!
Professor Laura Hollis, iFoundry Faculty Adviser for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EI) iTeam was recently awarded the Entrepreneur Advocacy Award for successfully nominating the UI for a cross-campus entrepreneurship award. Professor Hollis is a clinical professor of business administration at the UI, who has held positions at both the Technology Entrepreneur Center and the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Matt Gornick, iFoundry student adviser and co-founder of OrangeQC received the Student Start-Up Award during the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center’s Innovation Week, for his work developing software that measures the quality and effectiveness of janitorial services. The Student Start Up Award recognizes an organization formed by students within the past three years whose demonstrated success is a result of entrepreneurial talent, creativity and energy, and whose future success is indicated by its current path. Further information about OrangeQC may be found here. To read more about the Student Start-Up Award visit here.
Springer has released a new volume of the book, “Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology” which consists of a compilation of coordinated and focused essays from world leaders in the engineering profession who are dedicated to a transformation of engineering education and practice. Professor David E. Goldberg, co-director of iFoundry, is one of the contributing authors for the publication and his essay on the missing basics in an engineering education is published within. The book focuses on the need to structure engineering education in order to address the complex challenges and changes of the 21st century with a practice to serve students, the educator, the industry and the environment. To read more about the new edition of this book, visit here. To learn more about the missing basics in an engineering education, visit here.
Design Matters presents Mr. Julian Dibbell, an internationally recognized author, speaker and technology journalist, who will be on campus March 9th. Mr. Dibbell is a contributing editor of Wired magazine and will be co-teaching a class with iFoundry co-director, Professor David E. Goldberg, during the second 8-week class session this spring. Mr. Dibbell’s presentation, “The LOLcat, the/b/tard, and the Well-wrought Urn :Internet memes as distributed design” will take place at 5:30 pm in the Siebel Center Auditorium. All are welcome!
7:39 ifoundry co-director and William H. Severns Chair for Human Behavior at the University of Illinois, Raymond L. Price, speaks on his new book, "The HP ...
