Watch iFoundry videos and presentations at TEE

Saturday, September 27, 2008

The blog The Entrepreneurial Engineer has viewers for iFoundry videos (here) and iFoundry powerpoints (here).

Daily Illini features iFoundry

Friday, September 26, 2008

An article on iFoundry has appeared in the Daily Illini:

“This is very different from engineering in the (early 1900s),” said Andreas Cangellaris, professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-founder of iFoundry. “It’s not just an engineer in a room working alone. Engineers are interacting with many different departments – (sometimes globally). We don’t want global competition. We want global collaboration.”

Read the full article here.

Engineer curriculum to see major changes

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Daily Illini Peter Kim original source

“This is very different from engineering in the (early 1900s),” said Andreas Cangellaris, professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-founder of iFoundry. “It’s not just an engineer in a room working alone. Engineers are interacting with many different departments – (sometimes globally). We don’t want global competition. We want global collaboration.”

Engineers should be able to effectively impart their ideas to other people across different departments and cultures.

The current plan for iFoundry involves injecting three different programs into the engineering curriculum: 3SpaceStudios, HAPI themes and Operation Fresh.

3SpaceStudios is a library of YouTube videos about topics that are important to engineers but are commonly left out of the engineering curriculum, such as patent law, ethics and the history of technology.

“Since the new generation is into digital media, we’ve made YouTube videos,” Goldberg said. “They could also be used as reference material for classes.”

Workshop on the First Year in Engineering

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Workshop on the First Year in Engineering (WFYE) is a half-day workshop, Thursday, 25 September 2008 (Room 1122, NCSA Building), exploring innovations in the early undergraduate engineering curriculum.

iFoundry welcomes Dean Stephen Carr and Prof. Brian Storey

Thursday, September 25, 2008

to the Workshop on the First Year in EngineeringSteve Carr is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Engineering at Northwestern University, and Brian Storey is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College.

Michael Loui debuts with engineering ethics series

Monday, September 22, 2008

Michael Loui debuts on the iFoundry YouTube channel with a series that is certain to be popular for inclusion in other classes (here).  See the first in the series on Professionalism below:

The PowerPoint slides for his series can be viewed here.  Michael Loui is a faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois.  He is well known for his work in engineering ethics and the scholarship of engineering education.

Ray Price debuts with engineering organizational behavior series

Monday, September 22, 2008

See Ray Price’s series on engineering organizational behavior in the playlist on the iFoundry YouTube channel here, and see Category Creators vs. Enhancers below:

Ray Price is Severns Chair for Human Behavior in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.

The rise of the video sensei

Monday, September 22, 2008

Yesterday’s New York Times had an article on The Camera-Friendly, Perfectly Pixelated, Easily Downloadable Celebrity Academic (here) describing the rise of video-friendly faculty member in an open courseware world.  Hat tip to Umesh Thakkar.

Workshop on First Year in Engineering, 9/25, 8:30am, 1122 NCSA

Monday, September 22, 2008

There is still time to sign up for the Workshop on the First Year in Engineering (WFYE) to be held Thursday, 9/25, 8:30 am, in room 1122 NCSA Building.  Schedule details are available here.

iFoundry fellows scheduled on UI-7 cable

Monday, September 22, 2008

The schedule for iFoundry fellow broadcasts on UI-7 (U. Illinois cable TV) is as follows:

  • Monday, 1-2
  • Tuesday, 8-9
  • Wednesday, 2-3
  • Thursday, 10-11, 2-3

For updates on scheduling, go to the UI-7 link here.  Videos are also available on the iFoundry YouTube channel and presentation stacks on the iFoundry SlideShare slidespace.