In this iFoundry video, Ray Price contrasts category creators and category enhancers and talks about educating category creators. You can check out the video in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry YouTube Channel.

Betty Barrett talks about scientific management, the need to consider social aspects in labor systems and how these factors led to sociotechnical systems. This video then introduces concepts of sociotechnical systems and contrasts it against scientific management.

Bruce Litchfield, Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering and iFoundry fellow debuts on the iFoundry YouTube channel with Creativity, Innovation & Vision.  Watch in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry YouTube channel here.

University of Illinois graduates were encouraged to become entrepreneurs during Carl Schramm’s 2009 commencement address. Schramm is president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship and improving education to cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurs.

“America needs entrepreneurs right now. We need an army of the smartest, most passionate young people to try their hand at building a business—people who will take their heads and their hearts into the market, founding companies that will bring forth new products and services that will help humankind.”

You can read the full transcript or watch the video below:

The Department of Physics at the University of Illinois has a long tradition of innovation in undergraduate education, from PLATO to Tycho to i>clickers. The tradition continues with their most recent innovation: prelectures — short Flash(r) animations designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts before they attend a lecture. Watch the seminar by Tim Stelzer in the embedded player bellow or here.

The most popular videos on iFoundry’s YouTube channel (here) have been Michael Loui’s ethics videos (here).  A number of schools are using them as part of regular coursework and his first video in the series on professionalism is nearing 1000 views since its debut last fall.

Help put him over the top (over a 1000 views) by watching in the viewer above or at the link here.

On Monday April 13th, Sheri D. Sheppard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, and Consulting Scholar at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching presented “Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field”. The video from the talk can be found in the viewer below

or on Google Video here.

UIUC students and iFoundry volunteers Lisa and Cyrus give us a brief overview of iFoundry, the Olin-Illinois Partnership, and EOTF 2.0

In this video from the Inquiries on Education Seminar Series, Russell Korte talks about the transition from school to workplace for graduate engineers. 

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg was interviewed by neweconomyengineer.com on 20 February 2009 at Case Western Reserve University.  The interview may be seen here or in the viewer below:

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