ECE Professor and iFoundry Fellow, Michael Loui’s series of presentations on Professional Ethics in Engineering (Parts 6-10) have ranked as “hot,” being talked about on Facebook more than anything else on SlideShare.  Preview them in the viewer below:

or find others on iFoundry’s SlideShare page here.

Design Matters followers may wish to mark their calendars for Spring 2011 Lecture Series dates:

Wednesday, January 26 at 5:30pm (Krannert Art Museum Room 62) – Bernard Canniffe of MCAD: “Why I Love Design”

Monday, January 31 at 5:30pm (Krannert Art Museum Room 62) – Bill Lucas of Luma Institute: “Spreading the Practice of Human-Centered Design”

Monday, February 7 at 5:30pm (location TBA) – Martha Cotton of Gravity Tank: “From Tumors to Toenails -  Using creative tools for understanding (and designing for) everyday life”

Tuesday, February 22 – Anthony Shoemaker / Sears Craftsman / Managing the design process

Monday, February 28 – Denis Weil / McDonalds / Service design

Tuesday, March 8 – Rob Tannen / BresslerGroup / Design and ergonomics

Please join us today, January 26, 2011 at 5:30 pm in the Krannert Art Museum room 62 for an exciting lecture by Bernard Canniffe. He will be discussing his work experiences in design and how his passion for design has gotten him to where he is today. His website (which outlines his current and past projects and practices) may be found here. This lecture is brought to you by Design Matters4.

Please join us today, Monday, February 7, 2011 at 5:30 pm in the Krannert Art Museum Room 62 for a talk by Martha Cotton entitled From Tumors to Toenails: Using creative tools for understanding (and designing for) everyday life. More information on Martha’s research, and also Gravity Tank, may be found here. Hope to see you all at Krannert at 5:30 pm!

Jon Naber, Ehsan Noursalehi, Adam Booher, and the entire Illini Prosthetic Technologies (IPT) team for their Social Entrepreneurship Award presented at the 2011 Innovation Celebration! This ceremony, which was held on February 24, 2011, recognized 8 individuals or groups that have utilized innovation, creativity, and leadership for an entrepreneurial endeavor aimed at bettering a community. The Social Entrepreneurship Award recognizes IPT as: “…individuals who have served as change agents in our community by incorporating innovative approaches, improving systems and processes, and creating sustainable solutions to reshape society and benefit humanity, successfully implementing entrepreneurial principles to address social concerns”.

IPT, which was started by Jon Naber (class of 2011) his sophomore year, aims at providing affordable prosthetic arms to amputees around the world. Aided by Jon’s receipt of the 2010 Lemelson MIT-Illinois Student Prize, the team was able to fund a summer trip to Guatemala so they could test their products on-site. The IPT Journal, published in Fall 2010 and found on their website, details more of the trials, accomplishments, and growth of the team. Please click here to learn more about IPT or here about the Innovation Celebration.

Jon is a student leader and iSA in our iCommunity, and a number of his teammates have been students in User Oriented Collaborative Design.

Sarah Zehr, Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services for the College of Engineering, has just launched an online resource for volunteering in the Champaign-Urbana area. Her website, www.cuvolunteer.org, directly matches nonprofit organizations that need help with people in the community who want to volunteer. The revamped site, which was previously set up as a resource primarily for UIllinois students, is now community wide so as to provide more volunteers for the nonprofits in need. Check out the article in the News-Gazette for more details, and Zehr’s website to register!

ECE Graduate Student Kat Kim has just received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) for her work in improving solar panels and integrating them into power grids. The GRF awards the recipient with 3 years of financial support for research, and iFoundry is delighted to see Kat receive this award. For more information on Kat’s award, check out ECE’s article about her, published on July 21, 2011.

iFoundry co-director, David E. Goldberg, has started a consulting and coaching firm, ThreeJoy Associates, Inc, to carry learning from iFoundry around the world.  Goldberg retired from full-time teaching and research at the University on 31 December last year.  He currently is in Singapore working with the National University of Singapore’s Design-Centric Curriculum, and he’ll return to Illinois to work with iFoundry faculty, staff and students at the beginning of the school year and at various times throughout the year.  An inaugural post on the ThreeJoy site is available here.  Those who wish to meet with Dr. Goldberg during his return to campus should contact the iFoundry office or him directly.

Engineer of the Future in Portugese is Engenheiro do Futuro, and on 25-26 August 2011 (Thursday-Friday) an event will be held at Escola de Engenharia UFMG in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to consider the engineer of the future in the Brazilian context (program here).  Rick Miller, President of Olin College, and Dave Goldberg, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) will keynote the event.  This is the fifth Engineer of the Future event, three in the US (two at UIUC & one at Olin), one in Spain, and now one in Brazil.

Cory Levy, UIUC student and friend of iFoundry, has received $1 million for his latest startup, a mobile app called One.  One notifies you when you are in close proximity to someone with shared interests. The goal is to help people make missed connections; to initiate conversations that might not otherwise take place.

One debuts this fall at UC Berkeley, with plans to later launch the app at the University of Illinois and the University of Texas. Cory has received some great press from VentureBeat and TechCrunch about the debut of One.

Cory Levy’s connection to iFoundry began as a high school student in 2009 when he came and spoke to iFoundry first year students. He was already an entrepreneur with several startups under his belt and inspired the students to take risks, appreciate openness to others, and to “unleash” their entrepreneurial energies. Cory also spent his freshman year at the University of Illinois as a computer science student.

Cory, 19, currently lives in San Francisco. He is also the creator of the NextGen Conferences held annually at Stanford University.

Learn more about Cory Levy.

We are pleased to announce Cory Levy’s upcoming visit to the UIUC campus September 5 – 9, 2011. Details about events you can attend during this special visit will be posted in the next few weeks!