iLaunch, the Fall 2010 iEFX program’s kick-off activity, will be taking place on 21 August 2010. All participating students will have the opportunity to meet their fellow peers, student and faculty advisors, and other members of the iFoundry staff! Students will be engaging in team building activities throughout the day at the 4H Memorial Camp. For any additional information, please contact iFoundry coordinator Tracey Johnson at tjohnsn@illinois.edu.
iFoundry Co-Director, David E. Goldberg, is the recipient of an IBM Faculty Award for his work in iFoundry. The IBM Faculty Award program focuses on fostering collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development, and services organizations. The cash award of $20,000 will be used specifically to help with iFoundry activities. Further information about the IBM Faculty Award may be found here.
Russ Korte and Dave Goldberg are attending the Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education (ELE-2010) at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Rick Miller, President of Olin College gave the opening keynote. Professor Goldberg is tweeting ELE @deg511.
Systems and Service Engineering iTeam (SSE) performed consulting work for State Farm Insurance throughout the 2009-2010 school year. They provided insight on different ways to reach out to the young adult market and to attract young engineers to the workplace. As a team, they brainstormed and researched the topic by analyzing studies other scholars had done and distributed surveys to the young adults on campus. Using the information that they found, they were able to come up with a final product, which they presented to representatives from State Farm Insurance.
Professor Bill Hammack, iFoundry fellow, has created a series of videos in order to explain ordinary engineering questions to a general audience. Bill Hammack covers his office floor with trash to see what takes up space in a landfill. He digs through fast food containers, newspapers and diapers to arrive at answers, noting that what we really need is green design of our manufactured objects.
A four-student team is presenting their final project (user group: academic machinists) for User-Oriented Collaborative Design that was run in concern with Olin College (www.olin.edu). Follow live on twitter @deg511.
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg presented a paper at the 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology or fPET-2010 (www.philengtech.org) entitled “What’s Good for the Engineering Goose is Good for the Philosophical Gander.”
5:05 iFoundry, the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, reflects on the journey of it's students throughout their first year at the Un...
