Understanding Engineers starts today

A new course in Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois called "Understanding Engineers" started today.

Save the Date for Philosophy, Engineering & Technology: 9-10 May 2010

The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (FPET-2010) will be held on 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday evening through Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. The event is an outgrowth of the WPE-2007 and WPE-2008 meetings held in Delft and London.

Philosophical reasoning was important to the writing of The Entrepreneurial Engineer and TEE author David E. Goldberg is one of FPET-2010’s organizers. More information is available at www.philengtech.org.

New handbook of Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences is a winner

See the post here or in the viewer below:

Thoughts of a Reflective Engineer on Volume 9: Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 9, Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Little models

Here is the powerpoint for module 11, Little Models, from the course Creative Modeling for Tech Vision:

MTV 11: Little Models from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

The missing basics

See the talk I just gave at the National University of Singapore in the viewer below:

The Missing Basics: What Engineers Don't Learn and Why They Don't Learn It from iFoundry

Crossing the qual-quant divide

Module 10 from my course Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries is available in the viewer below:

MTV 10: Crossing the Qual-Quant Divide from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Tell the hoards at Heathrow

that there is a worldwide financial meltdown, please.  If this is a depression, I'd hate to see a boom.  I'm checked into AA47, LHR to ORD, returning from a talk on genetic algorithms at the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, and the number of people in Terminal 3 at Heathrow is astounding.  There are people sipping Starbucks lattes, people buying Yo Sushi, people stuffing their carts in duty-free shops, people sprawled out on chairs and couches, and people milling in the crowded hallways.  

Perhaps they didn't get the memo, or perhaps the "crisis" of the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression are completely, utterly, fantastically, and ridiculously overstated.

Dunia blogs TEE

Dunia Engineering Indonesia blogs The Entrepreneurial Engineering here. 

Great video from SMU about engineers and engineering

Check out this short video here

or in the viewer above! Posted using ShareThis

Declaring war on entrepreneurs?

Larry Kudlow has a post on the current administration's approach to entrepreneurs and business more generally:

Let me be very clear on the economics of President Obama’s State of the Union speech and his budget. He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds. That is the meaning of his anti-growth tax-hike proposals, which make absolutely no sense at all -- either for this recession or from the standpoint of expanding our economy’s long-run potential to grow.

Many of the current crop of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are too young to remember the era of confiscatory tax policy prior to President Reagan. The relatively low marginal tax rates of the early 80s were the sine qua non of the hyperentrepreneurial era that ushered in the PC, associated software, and the commercialization of the internet, and those who believe that entrepreneurship and an innovative American economy are inevitable irrespective of governmental policies are likely to be in for a bit of a rude shock.

The pickle rides again

I hadn't been following closely, but I noticed that Franz Dill has picked up the pace of his blogging at The Eponymous Pickle. Useful reflections on emerging technology (with a particular appetite for consumer marketing) in the 21st century (hat tip New Economy Engineer).

Hayek, a man for our times

Over the weekend, I reread Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Seemed important, given all the unprincipled machinations by government actors of late.

Now twittering

at www.twitter.com/deg511.

Goldberg: Engineers not understanding markets is criminal

El Mundo, the 2nd largest paper in Spain, covered my talk in Spain on "The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future" in an article with the title “No comprender los mercados es criminal para un ingeniero.” Links to the online version and the print version (with Goldberg action photo) are available over at the iFoundry web site (here).

The New Economy Engineer

See Gary Wnek's powerpoint stack The New Economy Engineer here or in the viewer below

New Economy Engineer v.1 from Gary Wnek

Gary is faculty director of TiME, the Institute for Management and Engineering, at Case Western Reserve University.