Engineering artifacts featured in “Understanding Engineers”

Friday, November 20, 2009

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.

iFoundry co-director to speak on “pairwork” at IEEE FIE

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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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.

Mixed, patched, and meta-models

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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

iFoundry co-director receives the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Well-deserved congratulations to iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg for receiving the 2010 Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. This award will be presented at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in July 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.

Is engineering philosophically weak?

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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:

iFoundry website welcomes NUS visitors

Monday, June 29, 2009

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.

Goldberg at NUS: What engineers don’t learn

Monday, June 22, 2009

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3:00 pm

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.

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).

What is creativity?

Friday, May 29, 2009

One of iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg’s most popular slide decks is the presentation What is Creativity? with over 4500 views on slideshare.  Watch the presentation below

or on slideshare here.

The importance of pairwork

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives Goldberg, David E. original source

Pairwork, teamwork performed by teams of two, has been an important ingredient to iFoundry and its precursors.  A preprint of a paper by iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg accepted for publication at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference to be held in San Antonio, The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives, is available at PhilSci archives here.