iFoundry » engineering education http://ifoundry.illinois.edu The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:01:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Book “Engineering in Context” launched in Dublin http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/03/book-engineering-in-context-launched-in-dublin/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/03/book-engineering-in-context-launched-in-dublin/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:18:14 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1790 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

]]> http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/03/book-engineering-in-context-launched-in-dublin/feed/ 0 Live twittering of 2009 Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/06/05/live-twittering-of-2009-symposium-on-engineering-and-liberal-education/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/06/05/live-twittering-of-2009-symposium-on-engineering-and-liberal-education/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:58:03 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1721 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.

]]> http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/06/05/live-twittering-of-2009-symposium-on-engineering-and-liberal-education/feed/ 0 The missing basics and an academic NIMBY problem http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/06/04/the-missing-basics-and-an-academic-nimby-problem/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/06/04/the-missing-basics-and-an-academic-nimby-problem/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:55:32 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1715 The 2009 Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education starts tonight at Union College in Schenectady, NY, and iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will be giving a poster presentation entitled The Missing Basics and an Academic NIMBY Problem: Conceptual and Organizational Obstacles to an Engineering Education Aligned with a Creative Era (here).

The Missing Basics and an Academic NIMBY Problem

The Missing Basics and an Academic NIMBY Problem


]]> http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/06/04/the-missing-basics-and-an-academic-nimby-problem/feed/ 0 The missing basics http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/04/08/the-missing-basics/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/04/08/the-missing-basics/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:01:58 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1450 A preprint of an article The Missing Basics & Other Philosophical Reflections for the Transformation of Engineering Education submitted to a volume edited by Dom Grasso, Dean at UVM, tentatively entitled The Future of Engineering Education and Practice is available at PhilSci archive here.

A related YouTube video can be viewed here or in the viewer below:

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