Steven L. Goldman will speak on Beyond Satisficing: Design, Trade Offs and the Rationality of Engineering at the 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology to be held at the Colorado School of Mines 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday-Monday).  More information about the talk and the speaker is available here.

iFoundry students and others may be interested to view Emily Pilloton, who wants to create things that aren’t just well designed, but have a positive social impact.  See clip from 18 January 2010  Colbert Nation presentation here.

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.

Sarah Zehr, Director of Engineering Career Services (ECS), presented information to iFoundry students at the weekly iCommunity meeting on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 in Room 106B1 Engineering Hall.  Her guidance included the following areas:

• Understanding the recruiting process
• Making the most of ECS
• Gaining experience through internships
• Navigating the current hiring environment
• Next Steps

To view the pdf version of her presentation, visit here.

Tech Journalism in a Wired Era, ENG 498 TJW (cross-listed as JOUR 460 TJW) is being offered on Wednesdays from 9:00-10:50am to both graduates and undergraduates as a one-time 8-week course which meets 15 Mar 2010 – 5 May 2010 in Room 1131 Siebel.  This one-credit course satisfies LibEd designation in the College of Engineering and will focus on writing about technology for the public as well as how technology is changing journalism.  More information here.

iFoundry welcomed back the iCommunity on Wednesday, January 20^th during the weekly iCommunity meeting. iTeams met for the first time since the holiday break and elected new iChairs for the spring semester. The new leaders are as follows: AED elected co-chairs Matt Johnson and Jeremy Kaiser, EI elected iChair Islam Sharabash, ESS elected iChair Peter Mounche and SSE elected iChair Ramy Cohen Masri. Congratulations to our new leaders and we are looking forward to another great semester with iFoundry!

The Illinois Engineering Freshman Experience (iEFX), formerly piloted by iFoundry, now has a website.  iEFX is designed to transform the first year of Engineering at Illinois and the experience is built upon coursework, projects, and a community that extends past the boundaries of the classroom.  The program will be available to a portion of the 2010 engineering freshman.  To view the iEFX website, live as of 21 January 2010, visit here or on the right side of this site under the heading “iFoundry related.”

iFoundry students and others may be interested in a – one time only – 8 week course – MS/INFO 391, Digital Media and Virtual Worlds which meets 19 January 2010 to 12 March 2010 (half-semester) from 9-10:50am Wednesdays in Room G24 Foreign Languages Building.

The course focuses on New Media, Culture and Society (see MS 326), but with a focus on small group discussion with students and additional course content on contemporary digital and Internet culture such as twitter, viral marketing, memes, virtual worlds and social media.  For undergraduates only.

iFoundry students may be interested a 5-week summer program offered through the Southeast Asia Studies Department at NUS.   The program has 2 modules: (1) Southeast Asia in Context and (2) Introduction to Southeast Asian History which includes a 2 week field trip to Thailand and Cambodia.  More information can be found here.

Applications are available for the Northwestern University 2010 Summer REU in Nanotechnology.  The application deadline for this 9-week NU-REU Program is February 15 and will offer you:

Full-time work on a nanotechnology research project

Access to world-class equipment and facilities

Research seminars and field trips

Opportunity to enhance your public speaking and technical writing skills

Opportunity to submit your paper for possible publication and be part of the peer-review process

Participation in team events like the summer picnic, and explore Chicago

For more information, eligibility requirements, or to download an application visit here.