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DesignMatters3 is hosting Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design, on Monday, November 2nd, at 5:30pm in the Deloitte Auditorium, 1001 Business Instructional Facility, 515 East Gregory Drive, Champaign, IL.  The event is free.

MAYA applies human-centered design to help multi-national companies such as Whirlpool, Bayer Healthcare, and General Dynamics kickstart innovation around business challenges in the increasingly connected world.  Visit designmatters3 for more information.

iFoundry co-director and William H. Severns Chair for Human Behavior, Professor Raymond L. Price, recently published a new book, The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation. Watch Professor Price talk about the book in the viewer below.

To learn more about The HP Phenomenon go here. To view more videos on engineering and education, visit here.

iFoundry co-director Ray Price’s new book (with Chuck House) The HP Phenomenon is “a gem” according to a recent review in Forbes online:

Truly new ideas are extremely rare in business books, but Charles H. House and Raymond L. Price have come up with a gem: how to build a great company when the boss isn’t always right.

Read the whole review here and find out more about the book here.

iFoundry students may be interested in a special presentation by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:00pm at Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 South Lincoln, Urbana, IL.  Mundie will speak about how software and information technology can help solve the most pressing global challenges we face today.   For more information, visits here.

The iFoundry-sponsored 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) is now accepting submissions on its website (here) or directly at the secure submissions site (here).

iFoundry believes that the concern for mathematical and scientific rigor that has arisen in engineering and engineering education since the cold war needs to be matched by a concern for conceptual rigor, and philosophy as the formal discipline that deals most directly with matters of conceptual rigor is critical to that change.

Read more about the 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology at www.philengtech.org.

Human resources MS students in LER (Labor and Employment Relations) 590 UE – Understanding Engineers are blogging about engineers and engineering.  Their blogs are aggregated on Friendfeed (here).

The course introduces soon-to-be HR professionals to engineers and engineering through a variety of perspectives, historical, philosophical, and technical.  The course texts include two classics The Revolt of the Engineers and Engineering and the Mind’s Eye, and the students complete two SEEs or simulated engineering experiences as part of the course.

The course syllabus is available here.  The course is taught by iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg, and more information about it may be obtained by contacting him directly (deg@illinois.edu).

On 12 November 2009 (Thursday) on the campus of University Ramon Llull in Barcelona, noted engineering educator (see here) Lueny Morrell and iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will keynote a one-day Workshop on Designing the Engineer of the Future (EF2009).  The event includes two keynote talks, two panel discussions, and breaks (program here).  Ms. Morrell will speak on How Can Engineering Education Address the Challenges of the 21st Century and Professor Goldberg will speak on The Missing Basics: What Engineers Don’t Know and Why They Don’t Know Them. More information is available here.

Design Matters3 is hosting Denise DeLuca of Biomimicry on Tuesday, November 10th, at 5:30pm in the Krannert Art Museum Auditorium, Room 62, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820. This event is free!
DeLuca is a professional engineer, an LEED-accredited professional and outreach director for the Biomimicry Institute who works to advance the concepts and tools of biomimicry, and to integrate biomimicry into university-level education.  More information may be found here.

All iFoundry students are strongly encouraged to attend today’s iTeam Meeting at 5pm in Everitt Lab Room 269.  iFoundry leadership will use the first 30 minutes to present information about iExpo.  Pizza will be provided. iExpo Student Overview attached as pdf flyer here.