A leadership blast

A nice short stack of powerpoints on slideshare that captures some important truths about leadership:

Little Book of Leadership Powerpoint from Phil Dourado

It takes a minute or so to scan. Take a look.

Blog covers creativity imperative talk in Singapore

Lim Kong Weng, an equipment engineer for IBM and Management of Technology grad student at NUS, covers the recent talk in Singapore on "The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future" here.

Creative modelers: 2 techniques from Athens

Module 6 of my course, Creative Modeling for Tech Vision, is available at my site on slideshare.net. I've also provided it in the viewer below.

MTV: 2 Techniques from Athens from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Made to stick

A couple of weeks ago, I heard Dan Heath present the title message from his book, co-authored with his brother Chip, Made to Stick. The book talks about sticky or viral messages that inherently get passed from person to person. Starting from urban legends, moving through direct mail and other forms of advertising, and continuing to more serious media and messages, the book lays down a sixfold decomposition of what it means to be sticky:

1. Simplicity
2. Unexpectedness
3. Concreteness
4. Credibility
5. Emotions
6. Stories

Individually, each of these things sounds reasonable, and I know that I use these ideas in my thinking, but the conscious combination of these elements is remarkably powerful.

I had been struggling with the writing of a sales letter before reading the book. After reading the book, I smacked my forehead, rewrote the letter, and it was incredibly more impactful. I don't yet know whether that particular letter worked, but don't stop for coffee, don't take a break, and go buy and read this book. You'll be glad you did.

Learn don't plan

Have been studying Michael Watkins, The First 90 Days. In organizations that are urdergoing realignment--where change is necessary but recognition of the need for it is lacking--a collective learning style of change can achieve better alignment and better awareness of the need for change than a plan-then-implement style of change. This seems especially relevant in most university settings, where the change is resisted organizationally with a vengeance.

Are you a creative tech professional?

My recent lecture at the National University of Singapore, The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future, is on line and can be viewed here. The powerpoints are viewable on slideshare (here) or in the viewer below:

Creativity Imperative Tpotf 10 07 Nus from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

It's been a while

since I last blogged. I went on vacation, got too relaxed, then the semester hit, and all heck broke loose. Anyway, quite a lot has happened in the intervening time, and I'll try to catch up with some posts over the next week or so.

Engcom.net covers engineering beat

A website called EngCom was recently brought to my attention. Engcom is a community-driven site that links to articles of engineering interest in 13 categories and asks site readers to rate the articles from boring to interesting. In addition to news articles, the site has features that include humor and inspirational and motivational quotations and stories. Learn at the About description here.

WPE-2007 last call

he 2007 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering has posted its final call for papers here. The event is shaping up to be a turning point in engineering thought.

Oliver Starr joins Nextumi team

Well-known blogger of mobilecrunch fame and general bon vivant Oliver Starr has joined Nextumi as VP of Biz Dev. See his self-introductory post here. Nextumi is changing the shape of online sharing with its sharethis product and will play key roles in marketing, strategy, and communications.

Construction of engineering reality

Here's my take on applying Searle's Social Construction of Reality to postmodern engineering design as part of my Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries class.

The Construction of Engineering Reality from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Young engineer alert

All you young engineers going to the NSPE meeting in Denver at the end of the month, come see your favorite entrepreneurial engineer speak on Three Pillars of the Entrepreneurial Engineer: Pride, Passion, and Creativity. See the program here.

Flat worlds, philosophy & engineering

See the ppt over at IlliGAL Blogging here.

From GECCO to SPT

Attended GECCO-2007 for workshops and tutorials Saturday and Sunday and flew to Charleston, SC for the Society for Philosophy & Technology meeting. Blogging over at IlliGAL Blogging about it.

What is viralness?

Everything on the web is supposed to be viral, but what does it mean for a product, service, video, ppt, or other object to be viral?

IlliGAL website has new look

See here. The lab also has its own domain name at last, www.illigal.uiuc.edu.

Tech visionaries & models

Here is the ppt from module 4 of Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries.

Tech Visionaries and Models from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Click on the number for modules 1, 2, and 3.

And the winners were

Earlier I mentioned my nomination for Most Entrepreneurial Scientist in the USA. The top 3 were as follows:

1. Paul Schimmel for his work on drug delivery in Alkermes Inc.
2. Joseph DeSimone for his work on drug delivery and fule cells in Liquidia
3. Leroy Hood for his work in Homestead Clinical.
   

I knew I was in trouble when Leroy Hood came in 3rd. Actually, it was grand to make the short list in such august company.

Who, what & where questions?

Florida is talking about fathers teaching their children to ask the what question (what will you study/do?), mothers teaching their children to ask the who question (who should you marry), but who teaches us to ask the where question? And the where question matters, because of the concentration of human effort is critical.

External human capital as building block of innovation

Richard Florida is talking about Jane Jacob's theory external human capital as the basis of innovation.

Is the world flat?

Florida is now talking about place and UN population data. The world now has over 50% of its population in urban areas. After some cool data analysis involving electrification and patents that say there are 12 region/cities in the world that matter.

What a great message!

I love Florida's message, and he's a very persuasive messenger. Creativity doesn't care about gender or race. Creativity is about people following their passions.

Toyota as creative company

He's talking about Toyota as a creative company because of the high-level realization that Toyota is a great company because of the capability of each one of its associates.

The dissociation of theories from their intellectuals

Richard Florida just did a great riff on how theories take on a life of their own when people become public intellectuals.

The Lycos move

Florida is talking about move of Lycos from Pittsburgh to Boston and the birth of The Rise of the Creative Class. He asked the company why it moved and the answer came back that it needed to get creative people fully assembled. This suggested that the firm is not the invariant; rather, creative clusters are the invariant.

Next up Richard Florida

Author of Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida, is up next (see here). He is working on a new book tentatively titled Who's Your City.

Live from Technopolicy

Am sitting in an interesting talk by Carl Johan Sundberg, entrepreneur and physician, discussing efforts at integrating tech xfer at the Karolinska Institute. The conference is Internationalising Regional Innovation of the Technopolicy Network in Fairfax, VA (program here).

microCreativity: Module 3 of Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries available

Module 3 of my course, Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries, is available on slideshare. I've posted it in a viewer below

microCreativity: History, Processes & Practices from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

You can see all my public slideshows over at slideshare here.

Nominated for Most Entrepreneurial Scientist

The author of this blog was recently nominated by the Technopolicy network as The Most Entrepreneurial Scientist in the USA (see here). Stay tuned next week to see which of the top five nominees takes home the trophy.

Making WPE with philosophy

The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2007) has issued its call for papers here. The workshop will be held at TUDelft, October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are due 17 August 2007.

Module 2 for Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries Online

Module 2, What is Creativity?, is available for viewing in powerpoint form below. This module discusses different definitions and theories of creativity.

What is Creativity? from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

See the course web site here. Other ppts are available at my slideshare account here.

A Billion Bits or Bust

Kumara Sastry and I will be giving the presentation A Billion Bits or Bust at the NCSA industrial partners meeting in about half and hour.

A Billion Bits or Bust from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Here is the ppt slideshow in for your viewing enjoyment.

ShareThis 3rd AbbeGirl video is up

Watch it here.



Sign up for the ShareThis ubiquitous sharing tool here.

Engineering losing global battle

According to Orthstar CEO, James Orsillo, in the Elmira, NY Star-Gazette here.

Pride, passion & joy of engineering

The long version of this talk (The Joy of Engineering) is one of my favorites to give and it is usually well received. It starts with two historical inversions (with science & business) that place engineers in secondary roles when, in fact, engineering has been key innovation force throughout human history.

The Pride, Passion & Joy of Engineering from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Scroll through these slides and let me know what you think.

Ycombinator bootcamp for young ventures

Here's a bootcamp for venture companies called Ycombinator. Sounds like the right way to go for very early stage ventures.

Genetic algorithm course intro lecture available

The introductory lecture from my course Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning is presented in ppt viewer below. The course web site is available here.

Genetic algorithms in search, optimization, and machine learning from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

See the full syllabus here.

Design of Innovation intro in ppt viewer

The introductory module of a short course The Design of Innovation is available below in a slideshare viewer:

Design of Innovation: Innovation & Genetic Algorithms from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Look at course web site (here) or the google book web site (here) for further information.

Engineering for the 21st century

The powerpoint slides for the opening lecture to my course on The Entrepreneurial Engineer has been uploaded to www.slideshare.net/deg511 and is available below for viewing. The course site is here, and the book site is here.

Engineering for the 21st Century from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

University tech xfer is hard

Rob Schultz explains some of the reasons why here.

Latest sharethis abbegirl "punk" video is rad

Rad? Check it.

ShareThis group on Facebook

The Ohio State University interns working for Nextumi have started a ShareThis group (here). It has 222 members as of today.

Creative modeling course intro

A powerpoint viewer from the introductory lecture to my course, Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries is presented below. See the course web site (here) for more information.

Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Sharethis makes top-11 list

of IE Explorer add-ons over at www.makeuseof.com. In fact, Sharethis is no. 3 (see here).

IP-CC talk on 3 lessons of philosophy for creative design

Ian Parmee held a meeting of his Institute on People-Centred Computation in Bristol last week. I gave a talk on 3 lessons of ancient and modern philosophy for creative people-centered design. The talk is embedded below using slideshare.

3 Lessons of Ancient & Modern Philosophy for Creative People-Centered System Design from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

UWE talk on creativity in the engineering curriculum

I gave a talk at the University of the West of England (UWE) last week on injecting creativity into the engineering curriculum. See the presentation below (posted on www.slideshare.net). The talk argues that we are still trying to make do with an engineering curriculum crafted by the demands of post World-War II era and the cold war, and that our fast-paced, human-centered times demand a greater emphasis on human concerns, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

The Innovation Imperative: Injecting Creativity into the Engineering Curriculum from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

ShareThis blog debut

see here.

Sharethis CEO interviewed on the Scoble Show

Learn more about sharethis here.

Video: Easy to share with sharethis

Click here to see for yourself.

Teambildung

10 lessons hier.

Sharethis on Mashable

here.

Sharethis listed on KillerStartups

here.

Teaching Company courses

Regular readers of TEE know that I am a fan of the Teaching Company. Earlier I finished Jeffrey Kasser's lovely Philosophy of Science on video. At present, I am in the middle of a video course called Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations taught by UCSB's Brian Fagan. It is a super course with global sweep (good coverage of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in addition to the usual European & ancient civilization coverage). For my driving pleasure, I just finished Michael Sugrue's (Princeton) Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues on audio. The cast of characters in the dialogs is large, and a good guide to the inside ball is essential. Sugrue's course does the trick. I usually peruse the courses on sale (here). Next up on audio, Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed through Biography. Specifically, I'm interested in analogies to the engineering profession in the history of the medical profession.

Fashionista video is pretty tight

MIT's Pentland giving killer talk

I'm blogging live in a talk by Sandy Pentland of MIT's Media Center on Automatic Measurement and Modeling of Human Networks as part of Nosh Contractor's Age of Networks series at the UIUC. Both the modeling and measurement parts are really worth a look.

Nextumi's share2me renamed sharethis

I've been working as chief scientist since 2004 for a company called Nextumi on a ubiquitous sharing tool called share2me. The product has been renamed sharethis and the company is launching a major marketing campaign using YouTube videos and a media campaign. See here, here (myspace id reqd) and here for more details.

Visit to UNCC

I've spent an enjoyable few days with Frank Skinner, founder of the Mechanical Innovations course at UNC Charlotte learning about the exciting innovation-based activities in mechanical engineering. They have a progressive senior design course, a spanking new building, and 5 new hires on the way. Sounds like things are moving in a nice direction at UNCC ME.

IlliGAL GA proves P=NP

See full post here.

Goldberg renounces capitalism, advocates Plato's approach

David E. Goldberg, author of The Entrepreneurial Engineer, and director of the lab that today showed that P=NP (see post here), today renounced capitalism by disavowing the approach of TEE and by resigning as chief scientist of Nextumi, a web2.0 company that is officially releasing sharethis, a ubiquitous sharing tool, this week. "Marx and Foucault were right. Capitalism is an oppressive system and all discourse is mere posturing for power. I can no longer toil in the vineyards of a self-serving elite whose very existence is anathema to the interests of a yearning global proletariat." Asked if he wasn't also abandoning the competitive and innovation principles embedded in his evolutionary computation work and The Design of Innovation, Goldberg said that "Mathematics is one thing. People are another. I can no longer live knowing that my work might be used by unscrupulous operators and even venture capitalists to justify their evil."

When asked what system might be better, Goldberg had this to say. "I think Plato had it about right in The Republic. Abolish private property, family relationships, and install a philosopher-king. Just because Socrates was an ugly pest doesn't mean that he and his star pupil didn't have something interesting to say. Moreover, this system seems to be working well at the University of Illinois, so I think it might just scale well to the US economy."

See the whole press release here.

Hot enough or not so hot

An AP story in the local paper (see story here) alerted me to a dating web site for good-looking or "hot" people called www.hotenough.org. The entrepreneurial engineer in me suggests an opportunity. Can www.notsohot.com be far behind.

Don't miss Tech Visionaries talk

Ray Price will talk about his research into Tech Visionaries on Wednesday at noon in 2405 Siebel Center. See here for the ETC lecture series generally and here for the Tech Visionaries talk specifically.

Frank Skinner & innovation at UNCC

I've been carrying on a correspondence with Frank Skinner at UNC Charlotte. Frank heads up mechanical engineering's senior design activity at UNCC and he is keenly interested in both linking universities and industry and teaching innovation in a serious way. I plan to visit with Frank next week in Charlotte to see if we can make some sparks fly. See Frank's Mechanical Innovation website here. Also take a look at the nice blog post on his activities in Swamp Fox here.

share2me gathering steam

The Businessmakers radio show has an interview with Nextumi CEO Mike Blackwell about the new share2me product here. Robert Scoble covers share2me here.

Jakky and Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers

Jakky quotes elaborately (here) from the 1995 text Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers that formed the basis for The Entrepreneurial Engineer. Jakky then laments along the following lines:

Though to me these statements are accurate, if nothing but truth, I find it rather disheartening to not hear of more engineers actively engaged in the creative process of idea generation and problem solving in the real world practicing constructive profession attempting to make a better world through change…

It seems to me that this is changing. The entrepreneurial revolution is placing more engineers in higher positions of decision making authority than ever before. It is also making large numbers of engineers wealthier than in times past. Nonetheless, we can--we must do a better job of educating engineers in the skill sets that will allow them to play these roles better and sooner than we are currently doing. I think classes such as TEE and my new course on Modeling for Tech Visionaries will help do just that.

Epictetus and the NSPE

I just published an article about the Epictetus square (see previous post here) in the National Society of Professional Engineer's PE Magazine. Download a pdf of the article here. This is my 2nd PE Mag article in a few months. See the earlier article, The Joy of Engineering, here.

Intro to venture capital

Another nice lecture at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Engineer class. This one is by Will Price and is an Introduction to Venture Capital. See it at the original post here.

Entrepreneurial slideshow at slideshare

Wambo's Xavier Casanova shares his recent slideshow at Stanford's EE203, The Entrepreneurial Engineer at slideshare.com here. Wambo is an instant messaging system with persistence memory.

share2me for our friends from the Netherlands

here.

share2me for our friends from Finland

here.

ZDNet/CNET coverage of share2me's CEO

Erica Ogg has an article in CNET and ZDNet on Selling Shovels to Web2.0 Gold Miners (here and here) that quotes Nextumi/share2me CEO Mike Blackwell:

"Everybody keeps trying to get people to come to a new place, whether it's a new social network, new tool, whatever," said Mike Blackwell, CEO of Share2Me. "It's possible to do that, but generally that's really hard and takes lots of money and lots of time."

I find it interesting that several observers have viewed share2me as merely a "shovel" or a "widget" rather than the system that it is. The design of share2me understands that relationships exist where they exist and that they are the fundamental entity in getting to a trusted, smart web2.0 system. Trying to drive individuals to this or that site is a Web1.0 strategy if ever there was one. Despite the big money being paid for sites such as YouTube, the action for Web2.0 is between sites and it combines a profound respect for relationships, trust, and operational smarts and simplicity.

One talk in an interesting series

Calvin the Venturer has a post about a motivational talk by Kevin Talbot of RBC Technology Ventures here. More information about RBC Tech Ventures is available here.

share2me for our Italian speaking friends

here.

The joys of faculty entrepreneurship

Being involved in a startup as an engineering faculty member has enriched my teaching and research. As a direct result of the entrepreneurial experience, I now teach two new classes , The Entrepreneurial Engineer and Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries. My university research of late has been informed by my engagement with Nextumi and the world of the web. Even my genetic algorithms class got a dosage of reality therapy when I revised it in the fall, when I put in a section on commercial companies using GAs.

At my school, there are growing numbers of faculty entrepreneurs, but our numbers are still small. People probably see dollar signs when they think of faculty entrepreneurship, but what I see is relevant teaching and research tuned to the 21st century.

See share2me DEMO 07 video

Nextumi CEO Mike Blackwell does a bang up job describing the value of share2me in the DEMO 07 video (here).

Share2me for our Chinese speaking friends

Here at daotag.

I share therefore I am

With apologies to Rene Descartes, you can read the review of share2me (by Nextumi) at profy (see here).

Koen philosophy of engineering lecture on video

Billy Koen's recent talk at the University of Illinois, An Engineer's Quest for Universal Method, is available at the ETSI/ETC site in synched powerpoint, plain video, or ppt in pdf format (here).

More Nextumi/share2me at DEMO 07

Some pretty good action listed at google blog search (here) and technorati (here).

Problems in VC paradise?

A mail list I subscribe to (bootstrappingjrm@mail-list.com) forwarded a whitepaper (here) that discusses some of the special problems (?) of VC-backed boards of directors. The whitepaper was prefaced in the email by the following comment:

The paper's basic premise is that VC-backed boards are particularly prone to dysfunction, due to: (1) Conflicting interests; (2) The regular addition of new board members following financing rounds; and (3) The likely presence of inexperienced members like first-time entrepreneurs, junior VCs or independent directors with strong domain knowledge but no background on VC-backed boards. Moreover, what happens if one high-profile VC is on a board with a bunch of lower-profile VCs. Does the high-profile guy always get his way, because the others don't want to lose out on the opportunity to continue co-investing?

This does not actually appear to be a very accurate description of the whitepaper, which tried to lay out some groundrules to help VC-backed boards be more effective. The author of the above statement seems not to like VC boards very much and to think that their problems are in some sense special. Personally, I've enjoyed my experience in a VC-backed company to this point, but I can imagine that the wrong chemistry could be particularly disastrous for a new company. Certainly some part of the problems described in the paragraph above must be related to "smartest guy in the room syndrome" (SGIRS). All academics think they are SGIRs and VCs are generally successful people who think likewise, but unlike academics, VCs have reasons to learn to play well with others. I think of VCs as social bees that go out seeking nectar for the hive (where nectar = money, personnel, contacts, influence, etc.), and indeed when things are working well, this is how it should be.

What is troubling about the paragraph is that it seems to assume some Platonic ideal of a board of directors that would exist if the company were not sponsored by VCs. Are non-VC boards heaven on earth? Oftentimes, small startup boards are dominated by an individual who may be technically competent, but is not particularly business savvy. Is this a better state of affairs than that of the random VC board?

In the real world, boards are composed of real flesh and blood people, and they are all likely to have their positive and negative points. That VC-backed boards have special systemic problems is a hypothesis not accompanied by any data. Many of the suggestions in the whitepaper are reasonable and could be applied to the selection of any board, but it is not clear that board selection and operation is any trickier in VC-backed companies versus those with alternative composition.

Nextumi a "must have" application

SiliconValley Watcher quotes DemoWire here.

Today's engineers must be entrepreneurial

Venture capitalist and Stanford engineering faculty member, Donna Novitsky, says that today's engineers have to be entrepreneurial. See the full article in the Stanford Daily (here).

MoneyTree venture stats

The PriceWaterhouse MoneyTree report has cool stats about venture funding here. Overall in 2006, $25.5 B was invested US companies in 3416 deals ($7.6M/deal), down from a high of $105.0 B invested in 7913 deals ($13.3M/deal) in 2000 (for full table go here).

In Q4 2006, Illinois ranked 13th among the 50 states (table here), with 14 deals totaling $95M going to Illinois ventures ($6.8M/deal). Illinois is the top state in the midwest, but VC activity in IL pales by comparison with California with 354 deals total $2.93B ($8.28M/deal).

More on Nextumi-share2me launch

Read the press release here. Read the GigaOm article here. Read the DEMO 07 press release here. My favorite quote comes from Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMO:

"Share is a must-have application," said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMO. "Share2Me is an easy to use, one step browser button that takes the hassle out of sharing content with others. This is why I selected Share2Me to launch at the DEMO 07 conference."

Still time to hop on a plane and see us demo at DEMO. Or sign up for the private beta at the share2me site www.share2me.com.

Nextumi launching share2me at DEMO 2007

DEMO 07 released it's list of companies launching new products next week, and Nextumi, Inc., a 2-year old company I co-founded is on the list (see here). At the conference, Nextumi's CEO, Mike Blackwell will launch share2me, a ubiquitous sharing product to permit crossplatform, multimedia sharing, anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

Still the master of happy

I just finished a (nother) book-by-book tour of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics aided by the video lecture commentary of Father Koterski and his lovely Teaching Company course (here). I am a big fan of the positive psychology movement (here) and its emphasis on human happiness, and indeed applying the methods of social science to human happiness is a recent phenomenon; however, the conclusions of the movement are largely Aristotle's, so why not read it from the source?

A billion bits or bust

IlliGAL Blogging has coverage of the recent breaking of the billion-variable barrier with genetic optimization Check it out here.

TEE and CMTV courses online

I'm teaching two TEE related courses this semester, The Entrepreneurial Engineer (see here), and Creative Modeling for Technology Visionaries (see here). Both are available online. I taught TEE for the first time last fall and it went swimmingly. CMTV is a new course, but I'm quite psyched about it. Check out the courses. They're one hour a week for 15 weeks with a proportionate work load, and they can be taken online or in person.

Life after Google

There is a terrific SF Chronicle article about early employees of Google leaving the company (here). It is estimated that the Google IPO created 900 millionaires, many of them in their 20s and 30s. It must be fairly disorienting to have an adequate nest egg at such a young age. The stories are as diverse as they are engaging.

More Teaching Company gems

I've blogged repeatedly about the Teaching Company but they continue to knock my socks off with great courses. I just finished Natural Law and Human Nature by Joseph Koterski of Fordham University in DVD (see here) and I'm half way through Philosophy of Science (Audio CD) with Jeffrey L. Kasser of NC State (see here). I'm revisiting Koterski's lectures on Ethics of Aristotle (see here) in connection with his natural law course.

I watch the videos while doing my morning cardio, and I do audio versions riding around town in my car. I only live 2 miles from campus, but it is amazing to me how much extra course material I squeeze in by listening to the lectures on CD in place of listening to talk radio or music.

One tip is to look for the current sales. The discounts are fabulous, and the catalogs say that each lecture goes on sale at least once each year. Take a look at the current sale courses here.

Reflecting on the nature of engineering

My logical positivist colleagues never met a qualitative approach they couldn't dismiss. Nonetheless, my colleague Michael Loui and I have been organizing an activity at Illinois called Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois or ETSI (see here). This all started with some of my TEE blogging about the philosophy of engineering (see here), but we now have 30 people in engineering and across campus interested in the activity.

The web site has more information, including a whitepaper (here) and a presentation (here), but the key set of activities revolves around a lecture series (here). We hope to record and post these lectures for viewing on the web. Stay tuned for further developments.