Week 3 in LER 590 UE “Understanding Engineers” features engineering artifacts, their history and ontology.  See the presentation in the viewer below

or look at related posts here and here.

Students in human resources in the School of Labor and Employment Relations can now take a course on Understanding Engineers to help them better recruit and develop engineering talent.  The powerpoint from the first week is below:

The powerpoint from the second week on “Engineering, Education & Modeling” may be viewed below:

Related presentations are available here.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak about “The Importance of Pairwork in Interdisciplinary and Educational Initiatives” at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference tomorrow, Monday, 19 October 2009, in the session M2F Promoting Engineering Student Success from 10-11:30 am in La Vista.  The powerpoint for the presentation is available in the viewer below

or at www.slideshare.net/deg511, and a pdf version of the paper is available on the FIE website here.

In ENG 198, Introduction to the Missing Basics of Engineering (syllabus here), the qualitative thinking skills (critical and creative) required to be a great engineer are covered.  In the powerpoint presentation below, the most elusive missing basic, labeling, is discussed:

Related presentation files (ppts) are available here and here.

Module 14 from Creative Modeling for Tech Vision covers more on little models.

The powerpoint below was presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology in a plenary panel session on the forthcoming handbook, Anthonie Meijers (Ed.) (in press). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Sciences, Elsevier.

The handbook is in press and more information is available on the Elsevier link above or the Amazon link here.

The presentation Engineering Rigor and Its Discontents: Philosophical Reflection as Curative to Math-Physics Envy is available in the viewer below:

This talk was presented Wednesday at SPT 2009, the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.  The abstract is available here.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg just presented a talk at SPT 2009, the 2009 Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.  The powerpoint stack from that talk is available in the viewer below:

In moving from qualitative models to quantitative models, it pays to start small.  In module 11 of Creative Modeling for Tech Vision, the topic of little quantitative models is explored with applications to evolutionary computation and organziational theory:

See more presentations here.

One of iFoundry’s themes is the importance of both qualitative and quantitative thinking skills, a theme emphasized in the powerpoint presentation shown in the viewer below:

or in on the Slideshare page here.