A 2007 paper (download here) Preparing for Substantial Change: The iFoundry Initiative and Collective Learning discusses the founding and early days of the iFoundry initiative.  In particular, the paper outlines the organizational change theories used in designing iFoundry, its initial design, and some of the first steps toward collective learning in 2007 and 2008.

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, [...]

On Wednesday, 6 May 2009, iFoundry held a year-end event to mark its first eight months in business.  The event was introduced by Associate Dean Chuck Tucker, and iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg made remarks entitled “iFoundry as Connecting Dots, Changing Minds,  and Teaching the Missing Basics.”  Those remarks can be downloaded as a pdf [...]

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg’s book The Entrepreneurial Engineer (Wiley, 2006) can now be previewed on Google Books.  Click here, on the image, or on the Amazon link (here) to learn more.

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.
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The University of Illinois and Olin College co-sponsored yesterday’s Summit on the Engineer of the Future at Olin College.  iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg helped open the summit with his remarks, Lonely Dots, Dot Connecting & the Engineer of the Future. Download the remarks in pdf form here.

Powerful forces, including demographics, globalization, and rapidly evolving technologies are driving profound   changes in the role of engineering in society.
The purpose of this study is to pull together the principal findings and recommendations of the various reports concerning the profession of engineering, the technology and innovation needs of the nation, and the role played by [...]

You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is “flow,” an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding–an [...]

The curricula and pedagogy of engineering disciplines face mounting pressure to change in response to the national need for engineers who can compete in the global workforce.
In order to understand the social and human dynamics that facilitate and inhibit the diffusion and acceptance of new engineering curricula and pedagogy, the CASEE in collaboration with the [...]

In October 2007 Jonathan Glancey reported to The Guardian that Britain is 20,000 engineers short (here). This article by Chris Wise (here) is a response to Glancey’s report. According to Wise we don’t need more engineers, “we need better engineers. We need more thinkers, more engineering designers, more people who can conjure up something magical [...]