Cory Levy, an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Houston, Texas, spoke to iFoundry students and other guests about his experiences with entrepreneurship at the first in the WOW student development series on Friday, 16 October 2009 in NCSA auditorium.  Levy emphasized the importance of networking, professionalism and embracing failure to learn for future opportunities. After Levy’s presentation,  a panel of young entrepreneurs (U of I students and alum), spoke of their experiences with entrepreneurial ventures.

The WOW Student Development Series is a collaborative initiative of iFoundry, the Technology Entrepreneur Center, the Undergraduate Programs Office in the College of Engineering and Engineering Career Services. This new series is dedicated to helping students develop the intellectual, creative, and entrepreneurial capacity necessary for success in the engineering profession.

Pictures of Levy’s presentation can be found on iFoundry’s Facebook page here.

AED (Art and Engineering Design) iTeam presentation at iFoundry’s midterm checkpoint on 14, October 2009. View it below.

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AED (Art and Engineering Design) presentation on Identity and Academic Support during iCheckpoint on 14, October 2009. View below.

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TIPS (Technical Innovation Planning Services) presentation at the  iFoundry midterm checkpoint on 14, October 2009. View below.

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EI (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) presentation at the iFoundry midterm checkpoint on 14, October 2009. View below.

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@ifoundry, @deg511, @markatolin and @apie2 are live twittering at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education conference in San Antonio.  Twitter for Engineering Education Transformation and Innovation (TwEETI) instruction sheet is available here or on the www.apie2.org website (here).

iCommunity director Russ Korte is involved in two special sessions at the IEEE Frontiers in Education conference in San Antonio.  Today, 19 October 2009, from 3:30-5:00 pm, session M4a on Teaching Philosophy in Engineering with John Heywood and Bill Grimson will be held in El Mirador East.   Tomorrow, 20 October 2009 from 3:30-5 pm in El Mirador session T4B will be held on Developing Engineering Student’s Philosophical Inquiry Skills.  More information, including papers, is available on the FIE website here.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak about “The Importance of Pairwork in Interdisciplinary and Educational Initiatives” at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference tomorrow, Monday, 19 October 2009, in the session M2F Promoting Engineering Student Success from 10-11:30 am in La Vista.  The powerpoint for the presentation is available in the viewer below

or at www.slideshare.net/deg511, and a pdf version of the paper is available on the FIE website here.

In the fourth video of in the series about sociotechinical systems, Betty Barrett talks about the influence of technology like biometrics and video surveillance in the workplace and in the employees, and how these technologies can improve or diminish satisfaction in the workplace. Check the video in the player

or in iFoundry’s YouTube channel (here).