Ray Price on the importance of asking the right kind of questions

Friday, October 2, 2009

Ray Price continues his series on category creators exploring the importance of asking the right kind of questions and while discussing the three kinds of questions that can be asked: How, what and why. Check out the video in the embedded player

or in iFoundry’s YouTube channel here.

Ability to self-manage among skills in greatest demand

Friday, October 2, 2009

The Vancouver Sun (10/2 Sankey) reports on must-have skills in the new economy and, of no surprise to iFoundry students, most of  the “missing basics” are among them.  The ability to self-manage in combination with effective interpersonal skills ranked highest in demand.

The Vancouver Sun article may be read (here) in its entirety.

Thom Tremblay of Autodesk at UIUC on Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Friday, October 2, 2009

Thom Tremblay, a Mechanical Engineering Solutions Specialist with Autodesk, will demonstrate some of the new features available in Autodesk Inventor Professional 2010 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 6:00pm in 151 Loomis.

Thom works with Autodesk’s Worldwide Education team, and has been with the company for eight years. Thom writes the Engineering Education for the Mechanically Inclined blog on Autodesk’s award winning Student Engineering and Design Community web site.

iFoundry/iCommunity blog aggegator now active

Friday, October 2, 2009

Thanks to Xavier Llora at NCSA, all blogs in the iCommunity are now aggegated here.  Keep tabs on iFoundry/iCommunity postings with an RSS feed or through frequent visits to the site.