A new volume Engineering in Contextedited 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).
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:
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:
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.
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:
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg presented the lecture, Playing Well with Others in a Creative Eraat the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal. It was picked up in the local press here.
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.