Today at 10:15, Franklin W. Olin College and the University of Illinois will renew their groundbreaking partnership to work together to transform engineering education (here). The Olin-Illinois Partnership (here) was formed 12 September 2008 and in the past year the two schools have worked together on a variety of projects, including the Summit on the [...]

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was selected as one of 10 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States to receive a highly competitive 2009 HP Innovations in Education grant, which is designed to address the need for more students to pursue and complete high-quality, high-tech undergraduate degree programs in engineering, computer science, information systems, and information technology.

“The HP award is recognition of the systems approach iFoundry is taking to transform engineering education,” says iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg. “Conceptual, organization, and curricular change must work together, and today they must work together in the context of great technology, both in- and outside the classroom.”

iFoundry has been using Google video to store videos over ten minutes in length, but now all iFoundry long videos are on vimeo here.
Many of Jim Leake’s engineering graphics videos are there (here). So are videos from the Workshop on the First Year in Engineering (here) as well as Inquiries in Engineering Education vidoes (here).
Vimeo’s [...]

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) [...]

At Olin College today, at 5:15 pm, attendees at the Summit on the Engineer of the Future 2.0 signed the “transformation proclamation” to promote change in engineering education in harmony with the practice of engineering in the 21st century.
The transformation proclamation is the founding document of a larger grassroots Alliance for Promoting Innovation in Engineering [...]

[ April 19, 2009; ] With interest in joining iFoundry remaining high, we have extended our application deadline to April 19 and encourage all admitted students to apply here.  Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 30. We continue to build the iFoundry class of 2013 and are planning a range of special opportunities for program participants. These [...]

David Weightman’s presentation on Brainstorming has been picked by the editors of SlideShare to be highlighted in the education category here.  Watch it there or in the viewer below:

See news release here for the Summit on the Engineer of the Future 2.0 to be held at Olin College, 31 March – 1 April 2009 (Tuesday evening to Wednesday).  For more information go to the workshop website here and the Olin-Illinois Partnership tab here.

Bruce Litchfield, Deana McDonagh, and Sharra Vostral are discussed in the Daily Illini article here.

To pave the way for curricula reform, the College of Engineering is forging a program based upon organizational change first.
The college recently launched iFoundry: The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, an interdepartmental curriculum incubator that is exploring ways to enrich and balance engineering curricula so that students develop competencies in crucial “soft skills” [...]