Watch iFoundry affiliate Laura Hahn’s video on teaching quantitative material in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry YouTube channel (here).

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg recently spoke about the engineer of the future in Barcelona (here).

iFoundry co-director, David E. Goldberg, will speak at IT@Illinois tomorrow, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 at 4:15pm in Illini A&B in the Union on Promoting Creative Interdisciplinarity in a Disciplinary World.  This is something of a neat trick because Goldberg is on the way to Barcelona, but the prerecorded video presentation is available out on YouTube here.  The powerpoints are available on the iFoundry slideshare page here.

Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, Director of Engineering Graphics, Jim Leake debuts with a video on Planar Projects in the viewer below:

See other Leake videos on the iFoundry YouTube channel here.

A recent article published in the Daily Illini, December 2008, explores some fascinating work at the intersection between design and technology, a key iFoundry theme. Professor William Bullock, professor and program leader for industrial design in the School of Art and Design, has been working with a group of students and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers of Chicago to discover new ways to use e-waste, the old electronic parts from discarded equipment. Prof. Bullock and his students spent the last semester researching current e-waste practices at the local, national, and international level and will investigate new uses for e-waste in the Spring 2009 semester. A Sustainable e-waste Design Competition will begin in January 2009 to encourage further exploration of this important national and global issue.

As report previously on this site (here), the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and the University of Illinois have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on September 12, 2008 forming the Olin-Illinois Partnership (OIP).  The MOU sets the framework for cooperation between the two institutions to further the development of engineering education, and it also sets the ground work for a new Alliance Promoting Engineering Education (aPIE2).  Watch the video of the MOU signing here.

The report from the Workshop on the First Year in Engineering held at the University of Illinois on September 25, 2008 (WFYE 2008) is now available, with summary discussions and top recommendations from the six focus groups on Student Advising, Recruitment and Retention, Math & Science in the First Year, Humanities & Social Science in the First Year, Engineering Design, and the Student Experience Beyond the Classroom. iFoundry, together with the Undergraduate Programs Office of the College of Engineering, and the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3) collaborated on this event, which aimed to stimulate discussion on the first year in engineering among faculty, staff, and students at Illinois and to create actionable items for moving forward on this process at Illinois.

The workshop exposed 80 faculty, staff, and student participants to interesting first-year curricula at Northwestern University and at Olin College of Engineering, and enhanced the ongoing efforts at engineering education reform at Illinois, of which iFoundry is a critical part. Email contact information, links, and references are included in this report to help facilitate this ongoing dialogue.

Download the report as a pdf file here. It is also available on the iFoundry SlideShare slidespace here.