One of iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg’s most popular slide decks is the presentation What is Creativity? with over 4500 views on slideshare.  Watch the presentation below

or on slideshare here.

John Holz talks to iFoundry about his multi disciplinary career and the breadth of education he received at UIUC.

iFoundry Associate Director, Karen Hyman, is a graduate of the University of Chicago and had the fortune of studying with Leon Kass.  

Leon Kass on cover of Humanities (May-June 2009)

On the occasion of his Jefferson Lecture, the National Endowment for the Humanities magazine Humanities took the opportunity to interview him in the current issue (here).

Pairwork, teamwork performed by teams of two, has been an important ingredient to iFoundry and its precursors.  A preprint of a paper by iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg accepted for publication at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference to be held in San Antonio, The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives, is available at PhilSci archives here.

If you want to feel good about being an engineer, watch the video from SMU in the viewer below

or watch it on YouTube here.  Part of the job of transforming engineering education is to communicate the excitement of engineering life, as this video does so well.

With the successful release of the new Star Trek movie, iFoundry is proud to re-release an earlier iFoundry video, Mr. Spock, Star Trek & the Engineering Mind in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry YouTube channel (here).  In the video, iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg explores Mr. Spock’s Vulcan lack of emotion in connection with normal stereotypes of engineering demeanor.  The conclusions go against type, suggesting the need for a kind of emotional energy in engineering life, arguing that without such energy, normal engineering judgment and decisions are more difficult if not impossible.

SMU engineering dean Geoffrey Orsak has written an interesting piece in Design News, Top 5 Reasons to Stop Whining (here).  The article is a reaction to another article Top 5 Reasons Studying Engineering Sucks.  Dean Orsak’s list is as follows:

IESE alum Tim Phillis talks to iFoundry about his UIUC education and what he likes about iFoundry in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry YouTube channel (here).

iFoundry has been using Google video to store videos over ten minutes in length, but now all iFoundry long videos are on vimeo here.

Many of Jim Leake’s engineering graphics videos are there (here). So are videos from the Workshop on the First Year in Engineering (here) as well as Inquiries in Engineering Education vidoes (here).

Vimeo’s social media features will make it an easier place to browse iFoundry’s longer video collection.

On Wednesday, 6 May 2009, iFoundry held a year-end event to mark its first eight months in business.  The event was introduced by Associate Dean Chuck Tucker, and iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg made remarks entitled “iFoundry as Connecting Dots, Changing Minds,  and Teaching the Missing Basics.”  Those remarks can be downloaded as a pdf file here.