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.

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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.

Video: Don Norman on Engineering Design

Sarah Zehr talks about the importance of non-technical skills

See the short video below:

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The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) videos are available in the player below:

All iFoundry presentations available here

The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) makes free presentations available in video (www.youtube.com/illinoisfoundry) or slide form (www.slideshare.net/ifoundry). The presentation s are available in the viewer below:

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New iFoundry content is up

The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) has posted new content, including new videos and ppts. For example, Patents in One Easy Lesson is a new video interview of USPTO veteran John Calvert, and Is Science Merely Applied Engineering is a new powerpoint presentation. Go here to see more.

University of Illinois seeks to reinvent engineering education

Today, the University of Illinois announced bold plans to transform engineering education. See here.