iFoundry » interdisciplinary education http://ifoundry.illinois.edu The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:28:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New handbook on Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Science http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/10/new-handbook-on-philosophy-of-technology-engineering-science/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/10/new-handbook-on-philosophy-of-technology-engineering-science/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:17:24 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1835 The powerpoint below was presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology in a plenary panel session on the forthcoming handbook, Anthonie Meijers (Ed.) (in press). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Sciences, Elsevier.

The handbook is in press and more information is available on the Elsevier link above or the Amazon link here.

]]> http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/10/new-handbook-on-philosophy-of-technology-engineering-science/feed/ 0 Engineering rigor and its discontents: The powerpoint http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/09/engineering-rigor-and-its-discontents-the-powerpoint/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/09/engineering-rigor-and-its-discontents-the-powerpoint/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:50:46 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1832 The presentation Engineering Rigor and Its Discontents: Philosophical Reflection as Curative to Math-Physics Envy is available in the viewer below:

This talk was presented Wednesday at SPT 2009, the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.  The abstract is available here.

]]> http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/07/09/engineering-rigor-and-its-discontents-the-powerpoint/feed/ 0 The importance of pairwork http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/05/19/the-importance-of-pairwork/ http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/blog/2009/05/19/the-importance-of-pairwork/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 10:27:12 +0000 deg http://ifoundry.illinois.edu/?p=1688 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.

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