IBM and the IEEE invite your response to the attached Call for Papers for Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments, a global conference to be held April 6-9, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. Conference sessions will feature prominent industry and academic executives, and explore the evolving knowledge and skill sets needed by engineering professionals to lead and perform effectively in the evolving global and business environment. Abstracts that focus on innovation in curriculum content and structure, and cross-disciplinary initiatives with business and law schools, and the social sciences, are of particular interest to the program committee.
Inside Higher Ed (10/23, Moltz) reports, “Today’s college graduates do not exhibit as much professionalism as their employers expect of them, according to a new study from York College of Pennsylvania.” The school is seeking “to rebrand itself as a place where ‘professionalism’ is cultivated,” and to that end “its newly created Center for Professional Excellence commissioned a survey of more than 500 human resources professionals and business leaders to gauge not only what they think ‘professionalism’ means but also how well the recent college graduates they have hired exhibit it.” Respondents said they “think of professionalism as being related to a person rather than the position,” and “the traits or behaviors mentioned most by the respondents as being characteristic of professional employees were “‘personal interaction skills, including courtesy and respect’; ‘the ability to communicate, which includes listening skills’; ‘a work ethic which includes being motivated and working on a task until it is complete’; and ‘appearance.’”
TIPS (Technical Innovative Planning Services) presentation at the iFoundry midterm checkpoint on 14 October 2009. View on here, or view other presentations from iCheckpoint here.
iFoundry’s midterm checkpoint (iCheckpoint) was held 14 October 2009. iTeams shared their ideas and progress to an audience of students, faculty and staff as they presented their group projects for the first time. To watch video of the EI (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) iTeam presentation on Identity and Academics go here.
To see other presentations from the iFoundry midterm checkpoint go here.
iFoundry’s midterm checkpoint (iCheckpoint) was held 14 October 2009. iTeams shared their ideas and progress to an audience of students, faculty and staff as they presented their group projects for the first time. To watch video of the TIPS (Technical Innovative Planning Services) iTeam presentation on the World of Work and Service, go to the viewer here.
Or watch other presentations from iCheckpoint here.
iFoundry’s midterm checkpoint (iCheckpoint) was held 14 October 2009. iTeams shared their ideas and progress to an audience of students, faculty and staff as they presented their group projects for the first time. To watch video of the TIPS (Technical Innovative Planning Services) iTeam presentation on Identity and Academics, go here.
To see more presentations from iCheckpoint, visit here.
iFoundry’s midterm checkpoint (iCheckpoint) was held 14 October 2009. iTeams shared their ideas and progress to an audience of students, faculty and staff as they presented their group projects for the first time. To watch video of the ESS (Engineering in Service to Society) iTeam presentation on Identity and Academics, go here or in the viewer below:
To view other presentations from iCheckpoint visit the iFoundry Vimeo page here.
5:05 iFoundry, the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, reflects on the journey of it's students throughout their first year at the Un...
