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.