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

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.

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.

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:

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:

See more presentations here.

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:

or in on the Slideshare page 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:

or on the iFoundry Youtube channel here.

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).

Incoming iFoundry student, Abi Noda, has shared a great post from Bruce Eckel which makes the case that career success, in software and all engineering fields, is not simply a matter of technical expertise, but depends on being open to lifelong learning, taking risks, learning from experiences outside the classroom, and broad learning outside your specialty.

The post sounds the themes of what kind of education is needed for the Creative Engineers of the Future.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg presented the lecture, Playing Well with Others in a Creative Era at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal.  It was picked up in the local press here.