Book “Engineering in Context” launched in Dublin

Friday, July 3, 2009

A new volume Engineering in Context edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, and Martin Meganck was launched 2-3 July 2009 at Engineers Ireland in Dublin, Ireland at workshop by the same name (more here).  iFoundry was represented at the meeting by co-director David E. Goldberg who presented a talk: The Missing Basics: What Engineers Don’t Learn and Why They Don’t Learn Them (here).

Engineering in Context

Engineering in Context

Qual to quant: Start with little models

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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.

Goldberg at NUS: What engineers don’t learn

Monday, June 22, 2009

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iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak at the National University of Singapore on Monday, 29 June 2009 at 3pm in LT1, FoE on What Engineers Don’t Learn and Why They Don’t Learn It. Download a full seminar announcement here.

Jim Leake looks to the future at ASEE with Autodesk

Sunday, June 21, 2009

iFoundry fellow Jim Leake gave a talk at Autodesk’s Global Colloquium at the ASEE Conference in Austin, TX last week.  The presentation is available in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry Slideshare page here.  Autodesk is sponsoring an iFoundry project that brings industrial design and engineering students and faculty together in and outside the classroom.

UPDATE:

See examples of student work from the above presentation in the video below:

or on the iFoundry Youtube channel here.

TEC announces Startup Bootcamp for 8-11 September 2009

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Illinois’s Technology Entrepreneur Center announces a Startup Bootcamp 8-11 September (here). For more information email Stephanie Larson (here).

Learning is a commitment

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Ken Stanton, Engineering Ed PhD student at VATech says Learning is a commitment in this short, useful article (here).

microCreativity: History, processes, & practices

Sunday, June 21, 2009

A companion to the presentation “What is Creativity” by iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg (original post here) appears below

or on his slideshare website (here).

Playing well with others in Faro, Portugal

Friday, June 5, 2009

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg presented the lecture, Playing Well with Others in a Creative Era at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal.  It was picked up in the local press here.

Live twittering of 2009 Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education

Friday, June 5, 2009

iFoundry co-director, David E. Goldberg, is live twittering the 2009 ELE symposium at www.twitter.com/deg511.  First up, Lewis Duncan, former Dean of Engineering at Dartmouth and currently, President of Rollins College.