The Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) is hosting Gary Grube, President and CEO of the Caerus Institute of Open Innovation. His talk is given as part of iV10, a 10 week summer program where teams develop their idea into a working product.
From TEC:
“Every inventor is an engineer, but not every engineer is an inventor. A good innovator has a creative knack, the ability to close ones eyes and envision a picture. A great innovator also has that knack, but can then take the vision further, connecting all the dots of technology, business, patents, end user and differentiation, to produce a product and bring it to market. Gary Grube is a great innovator. Grube utilizes his skills for connecting emerging technologies to future market opportunities and creating early inventions and patents around those spaces, helping technology companies bring their innovative visions to life by forming intellectual property strategies and managing the tactical execution of the strategy”
Gary Grube will be speaking this Monday, July 27th, 12:00 pm at 301 Coordinated Science Lab. See more events from TEC on their calendar.
Our valued partner Olin College recently published its latest enewsletter detailing recent events at the College. You can read about the latest happenings at Olin College in the pdf version of the newsletter.
The purpose of general education is to encourage students to take classes that increase their breadth of knowledge and awareness of the world. However, general education is too general. Without a clear direction, selecting classes becomes a matter of “which class is easier?” rather than “Which class will best improve my current body of knowledge?”.
iFoundry believes that the human aspect of engineering is an essential part of becoming a well-rounded engineer-student. HAPI is an iFoundry proposal meant to encourage students to get the most out of their general education requirements by being purposeful in the selection of their courses. HAPI themes are a set of courses that are centered around a specific theme or purpose. This blog will begin a series on some examples of HAPI themes (details can be found in the HAPI manual). The examples we will cover are:
Anthropology
Classical Western Civilization
Economics
Environmental
Foreign Affairs
Health
Law, Policy, and Technology
Philosophy
“The Power of Story”
Understanding People
Each post in our series will discuss the theme as well as suggest some courses that can be taken at UIUC that follow the theme.
The Illinois student chapter of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is set to begin operating at the University of Illinois in Fall 2009. Our Olin-Illinois partnership and a visit by students in Spring 2009 to Olin College for the Summit on the Engineer of the Future 2.0 inspired the inception of an ASEE student chapter at Illinois. Both iFoundry and Illinois ASEE are committed to working together on furthering engineering education and empowering engineering students to transform engineering education.
For more information about Illinois ASEE, contact current chapter president Brian Schertz.
Well-deserved congratulations to iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg for receiving the 2010 Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. This award will be presented at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in July 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg just presented a talk at SPT 2009, the 2009 Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. The powerpoint stack from that talk is available in the viewer below:
Watch the video from the Center for Plasma-Material Interaction at the University of Illinois in which liquid lithium wets a porous molybdenum sponge at 450C as part of the Study of Lithium Infusion in Porous media experiment (SLIP).
For more information about CPMI go to the website (here) or the YouTube channel (here).
7:39 ifoundry co-director and William H. Severns Chair for Human Behavior at the University of Illinois, Raymond L. Price, speaks on his new book, "The HP ...
