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Bruce Litchfield’s “Creativity, Innovation & Vision” continued

thyago — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:53:55 +0000

Bruce Litchfield, Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering and iFoundry fellow continues his series on Creativity, Innovation & Vision. Watch in the viewer below

or on the iFoundry YouTube channel here.

Ray Price contrasts category creators and category enhancers

thyago — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:44:08 +0000

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 introduces sociotechnical systems

thyago — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:25:24 +0000

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 debuts on iFoundry with “Creativity, Innovation & Vision”

deg — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:12:51 +0000

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.

Jim Leake looks to the future at ASEE with Autodesk

deg — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:15:20 +0000

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.

‘09 UIUC commencement: “Join the army of entrepreneurs”

thyago — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:51:33 +0000

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:

IEE seminar on multimedia prelectures posted

thyago — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:00:52 +0000

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.

Loui’s Ethics 101 closes in on 1000 views

deg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:19:28 +0000

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.

Stanford’s Sheri Sheppard on video: “Educating Engineers”

thyago — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:11:14 +0000

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.

The missing basics

deg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:01:58 +0000

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: