Engineering Open House will take place on March 12 and 13, 2010.  Engineering Open House is an amazing opportunity to showcase technical skills and creativity to a multitude of distinguished campus visitors. Deadlines for this great, student facilitated event are approaching quick. Visit here to register for the event and learn more about this fantastic opportunity available only to UIUC students.

iFoundry is proud to welcome Aaron Ferber, a senior designer for IDEO,  as part of the World of Work student lecture series.  Mr. Ferber will be on campus on 18 February and the presentation will take place from 5-6pm in the NCSA auditorium. Everyone is invited to attend the event. To learn more about IDEO and Mr. Ferber, visit www.ideo.com

iFoundry students might be interested to attend the 2nd Annual Film Fest as part of the Technology and Entrepreneur Center (TEC) sponsored Innovation Week Activities on 21 February 2010 beginning at 12:30pm at the Activities and Recreation Center.  Tickets are $5 each or $12 for a full day pass.  For more information or to register, visit here.

This year’s features are:

Gerry Maguire – 12:30pm

Tommy Boy – 3:10pm

Office Space – 5:10pm

Innovation Week is scheduled for 16-25 February 2010.

Co-authors of the newly released book, The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation, Charles House and Raymond Price, will be visiting the Illinois campus on 11 February 2010.  House and Price will be holding a book talk from 3-5 pm in 106B1 Engineering Hall. The HP Phenomenon, which was released in 2009, discusses the many innovations and transformations that Hewlett Packard was able to make throughout the years while most of their competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation.

House is currently the executive director at Media X, Standford University’s Industry Affiliate research program on media and technology.  To read more about Chuck House visit here and to view his blog visit here. Price serves as a Professor, Severns Chair for Human Behavior and iFoundy co-director at Illinois.  Students and faculty from UIUC may sign up to attend this unique event here.  Other guests may phone the iFoundry office at (217)244-3821 to register.

Do you have a passion outside engineering that you would like to share with your fellow classmates? Do you want to learn more about other engineering students and about their passions outside of the classroom? Come see the first Passionate Pursuits lecture series, Thursday, January 28, from 12-1 in room 112 Engineering Hall. Check out the Passionate Pursuit website, http://www.wix.com/ifoundry/passionatepursuits for more information and to sign up for a time slot.

iFoundry leaders will “re-launch” students for the spring semester on Saturday, January 23, 2010 from 10am-2pm at the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) – program provided by the Illinois Leadership® Center and ARC climbing wall staff.  iFoundry students should bring iCards to gain admittance and wear comfortable clothing.  Lunch is provided.

iFoundry students and leadership will meet on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, from 5-7pm in 106B1 Engineering Hall (1308 West Green St) to hold elections of iChairs for the spring 2010 semester.  iChairs serve as the team leader and organizer for each of the four iFoundry student self-selected interest-driven teams.  Details with regard to the iCommunity and elections may be found in the iCommunity handbook here.

The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology or fPET-2010 (to be held as a one-day intensive event on 9-10 May 2010, Sunday Evening-Monday, at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO) has extended the deadline for abstract submission until 15 January 2010 (Friday).

An extended call for papers is available as a pdf file (here) or online (here).  Inquiries about fPET-2010 can be sent to co-chairs Diane Michelfelder (michelfelder@macalester.edu) or Dave Goldberg (deg@illinois.edu).

iFoundry is a sponsor of fPET-2010.

Professor Tony Ward, University of York, UK will present “Great Engineering Failures” through a live video conference lecture at 11:30am on Thursday, November 19 in 410C1 Engineering Hall (SE corner of 4th floor).

This presentation is in celebration of Global Enterprise Week.

Design Matters3 is hosting Doris Wells-Papanek, design research consultant and learning coach at 5:30pm on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 in the Krannert Art Museum Auditorium, Room 62, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign.  This event is free!

Wells-Papanek will share her latest study on creating change that matters and human-centered design in the 21st century.   More information on DesignMatters3 and Wells-Papanek may be found here.