The first event of the new semester in the Inquiries in Engineering Education seminar series will be held today (here).  Researchers from the GATE program (Grants for Advancement of Teaching in Engineering) will present summaries of their work.

Monday 26 January, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.

301 Coordinated Science Lab (CSL)

Illinois Innovations: Projects on Instruction, Curriculum, & Student Learning in Engineering

This symposium highlights the GATE awards, one of the College of Engineering’s initiatives to promote excellence in curriculum and instruction. The GATE (Grants for Advancement of Teaching in Engineering) program supports projects that enhance the undergraduate classroom experience for engineering students. At this luncheon symposium, the 2008 faculty recipients of the GATE awards will discuss the goals and outcomes of their course and curricular innovations. There will be time for discussion and creative thinking about ideas for future projects.

Please RSVP to Leslie Srajek (lcrowley@illinois.edu) by Friday, January 24, 2009.

iFoundry co-director, David E. Goldberg, will speak at USC’s Division of Engineering Education on The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future this Wednesday, 28 January 2009 at 11am. A flyer for the presentation is available here. The powerpoint presentation for talk is available on the iFoundry SlideShare page here.

iFoundry co-director, David E. Goldberg, is in San Francisco today and tomorrow and Los Angeles Wednesday through Friday spreading the word about iFoundry to Illinois alumni and friends.  The powerpoint presentation for his visits is available in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry slideshare page here.

I’d like to extend a warm welcome to iFoundry to attendees at the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) Conference in Phoenix.  You can get access to the powerpoint presentation I gave at the conference (The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future) in the viewer below or on the iFoundry slideshare page (here).

Also, an earlier version of the talk was captured on video at Colorado State University.  That version can be viewed here if you would like your colleagues to see the talk.  Special thanks to the Kern Family Foundation for permitting me to join the important KEEN conversation.

Additional resources are available on iFoundry SlideShare, YouTube, and Facebook.

Under the title “No comprender los mercados es criminal para un ingeniero” (Not to understand the markets is criminal for an engineer) El Mundo, the second largest newspaper in Spain, presented an article about the transformation of engineering education following an interview with iFoundry, co-director David E. Goldberg.  Read the online version here or the print version with action photo here.