The next film in the series Movies Even an Engineer Would Love, The Tailenders, will be shown at the Spurlock Museum, Wednesday, October 29, 2007 from 7-9pm.  More information on the series is available here.

27 October 2008, Applying Design Thinking in Engineering Education is a noon brown-bag seminar (301 Coordinated Sciences Lab) with Professor Benjamin Linder from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Click here for details.

Professor David Goldberg will speak on “The Creativity Imperative & the Technology Professional of the Future” on Tuesday November 4, 5:00 – 6:15 p.m. in 1404 Siebel Center.  Details here.

Explore this topic with Olin College’s Dr. Benjamin Linder on Monday at noon.  Details here.

Sarah Zehr, Asst Dean and Director of Engineering Career Services at Illinois, talks to students and recruiters about iFoundry in short YouTube videos (here and here). The student-oriented video is shown below:

For more information about Engineering Career Services at Illinois click here.

The response to iFoundry from Illinois friends and alums has been gratifying. Many have written and asked how to get involved and how to support the effort. The following presents a list of ways, from easy to more involved, and all of them can help iFoundry accomplish its mission of effective educational transformation:

1. Join iFoundry’s Facebook Group (Friends of iFoundry) or Always Illinois Group (iFoundry)
2. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/illinoisifoundry)
3. Subscribe to our SlideShare page (www.slideshare.net/ifoundry)
4. RSS feed our webpage (www.ifoundry.illinois.edu/feed).
5. Watch us on UI-7 TV (http://www.media.illinois.edu/service/ui7live.html)
6. Tell 3 friends about us in business.
7. Tell 3 alums about us
8. Send digital media content in powerpoint form for our slideshare page (short ppts).
9. Send digital media content in video form for YouTube page (short videos of interest to channel viewers).
10. Suggest to other corporate friends and trainers to send us digital media content.
11. Come to campus and talk to our courses.
12. Provide guidance and advice by email.
13. Provide guidance and advice in person.
14. Teach a web-based class at 100- or 200-level online
15. Direct a portion of your annual giving to iFoundry activities
16. Recruit others to direct a portion of their annual giving to iFoundry
17. Recruit corporate or foundation donors to establish small to large programs with iFoundry

The items with smaller numbers are easy to do. The items with higher numbers are more involved and require more commitment. Alumni and friend support are crucial to the success of educational transformation through iFoundry, so do whatever you can, and keep those e-mails and messages coming in.

The talk The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future is available on the iFoundry SlideShare page here or in the viewer below:

We are delighted to announce this brown bag seminar — please join us!

Applying Design Thinking in Engineering Education

Monday October 27, 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.

301 Coordinated Sciences Lab

Dr. Benjamin Linder, Associate Professor of Design and Mechanical Engineering, 

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Olin College is a new undergraduate college that places a strong emphasis on design within the context of an engineering, liberal arts and entrepreneurship curriculum. Several important ideas in design thinking inform the more unconventional Olin approach, which will be outlined and illustrated with example experiences. 

Please join us afterwards, 1:00 – 1:30 for an informal follow-up discussion with Dr. Linder.

Benjamin Linder is a faculty member in Design and Mechanical Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and a designer active in the Boston area. He is also a co-organizer of the International Development Design Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael Loui’s five lectures on engineering ethics will air at 10 am today, October 16, 2008, on UI-7 as part of continuing iFoundry programming. The first lecture in that series, Engineering Ethics 101: Professionalism, is among the most watched iFoundry lectures. See it below in the viewer,

watch the live stream here, or watch the whole engineering ethics playlist on YouTube here.

UI-7, the University of Illinois’s cable channel is now streaming live here.  iFoundry videos have been shown on UI-7 since 17 September 2008 (see here).  The UI-7 schedule is available here.