“This intriguing book explores the reasons that lead undergraduates of above-average ability to switch from science, mathematics, and engineering majors into nonscience majors. Based on a three-year, seven-campus study, the volume takes up the ongoing national debate about the quality of undergraduate education in these fields, offering explanations for net losses of students to non-science majors.”

The book can be found on amazon.com (here).

Robert Quinn’s Change the World offers profound yet practical guidance for those who truly want to improve their surroundings.

The book is available on amazon.com (here).

The opening reception of the Summit on the Engineer of the Future 2.0 is tonight at 5:30 pm at Olin College.  26 faculty and students from the University of Illinois and iFoundry are traveling to the event.  Approximately 300 attendees are expected essentially filling the Olin facilities to capacity.

This book explains the upcoming “Conceptual Age”, contrasting it with past periods of intense change, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Renaissance. The book also defines the six “senses” Pink identifies as crucial to success in the new economy-design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning.

A Whole New Mind can be purchased on amazon.com (here).

The Engineer of 2020 urges the engineering profession to recognize what engineers can build for the future through a wide range of leadership roles in industry, government, and academia.

The book is available in paperback or pdf here.

In this video from the Inquiries on Education Seminar Series, Russell Korte talks about the transition from school to workplace for graduate engineers. 

The Transformation Proclamation will be presented to attendees at the Summit on the Engineer of the Future 2.0 at Olin College on 1 April 2009.  Read it below

http://www.slideshare.net/ifoundry/apie2-transformation-proclamation

and check back to sign the Transformation Proclamation online following the EotF2.0 event.

This book offers recommendations on how to enrich and broaden engineering education so graduates are better prepared to work in a constantly changing global economy.

Educating the Engineer of 2020 available in paperback or pdf here.

Margolis and Fisher document the astonishing gender gap in the field of computing by answering the question of why female interest in technology begins to wane in middle school and all but dies in high school.

A 5 page summary can be found here. For more information or to buy the book check amazon.com (here).

iFoundry is now on twitter @ifoundry.  Co-director David E. Goldberg tweets on educational and other topics @deg511.