The new URL for the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, www.ifoundry.illinois.edu is now live.

iFoundry’s co-director Dave Goldberg will speak on The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future (see here).

Abstract. The world is apparently flat. It is being given over to a rising creative class, and it requires a whole new mind. A common conclusion drawn from authors such as Friedman, Florida, and Pink is that technology professionals in advanced economies must excel at creating new categories of product and service. Returns to routine engineering/technology labor are declining because of the ease with which these tasks may be outsourced. The talk will discuss this situation and the work of the iFoundry for Innovation in engineering education.

Bio. David E. Goldberg, is the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurial Engineering and the co-director of iFoundry at UIUC and co-founder of ShareThis Inc., a web2.0 startup company. He is the author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Organization, and Machine Learning (1989), The Design of Innovation (2002), and The Entrepreneurial Engineer (2006).

Related videos and powerpoints are available on iFoundry’s YouTube channel and SlideShare page.

3SpaceStudios was able to talk to Don Norman after his talk on campus last week on Sociable Design.  Watch the clip below:

Learn more about Don Norman and his work here.  Learn more about the DesignMatters lecture series here.

Illinois historian of technology Ray Fouche debuts on iFoundry’s SlideShare channel with his powerpoint stack Digital Turn: Hip-Hop, Technology & Culture.

Click here or browse in the viewer above.  Also stay tuned for the YouTube video version.

4 November 2008, The Creativity Imperative & the Technology Professional of the Future is a lecture by Professor David Goldberg, co-sponsored by the Technology Entrepreneur Center (5:00 – 6:15 p.m., 1404 Siebel Center). Click here for details.

The 2008 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2008) to be held 10-12 November 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) posted its full schedule on its website (here).

An earlier post listed 17 ways to engage with iFoundry.  One of the easiest way to engage with iFoundry is to link to our various website destinations, and for us to link to your company site, blog, or other salient URL.  Why not link with one of the following iFoundry related sites.

• iFoundry blog
• iFoundry Always Illinois
• iFoundry Facebook
• iFoundry SlideShare
• iFoundry YouTube
• Engineering & Technology Studies at Illinois
• Inquiries in Engineering Education

Links make the web go ’round, and by crosslinking with iFoundry you’ll help send traffic our way and vice versa.

Illinois Women & Gender Studies faculty member Sharra Vostral debuts on iFoundry’s SlideShare channel with Masculine/Feminine Technology.  Browse it on the iFoundry SlideShare channel here or in the viewer below:

Other of her titles are available including Technology and Passing and Masculine/Feminine Technology and YouTube videos will be available soon on the iFoundry YouTube channel.

The Illinois Entrepreneurship Network (IEN) has posted a one-slide powerpoint stack on iFoundry’s SlideShare channel.

More information is available at the IEN website (here).

iFoundry Fellow Sharra Vostral has prepared a short video entitled Masculine/Feminine Technology in which she contrasts men’s and women’s shavers to understand assumptions of gender difference in design. Watch in the viewer below

or on iFoundry’s YouTube channel (here). Professor Vostral’s other titles, Pandering in Pink and Technology and Passing are now available as well.