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Engineering artifacts featured in “Understanding Engineers”

deg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:43:57 +0000

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.

“Understanding Engineers” offered for HR pros

deg — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:59:17 +0000

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.

Labeling as the most elusive missing basic of engineering

deg — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:51:20 +0000

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.

Mixed, patched, and meta-models

deg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:18:18 +0000

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

New handbook on Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Science

deg — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:17:24 +0000

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.

Engineering rigor and its discontents: The powerpoint

deg — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:50:46 +0000

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.

Is engineering philosophically weak?

deg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:23:38 +0000

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:

Qual to quant: Start with little models

deg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:27:45 +0000

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.

Crossing the qual-quant divide

deg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:41 +0000

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.

iFoundry website welcomes NUS visitors

deg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:47:53 +0000

NUS visitors wishing to view the talk on The Missing Basics by David E. Goldberg can do so in the viewer below

or they may view it on the iFoundry slideshare page (here). iFoundry YouTube videos are available here and other presentations by Professor Goldberg are available on the slideshare page here.