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Week 3 in LER 590 UE “Understanding Engineers” features engineering artifacts, their history and ontology.  See the presentation in the viewer below

or look at related posts here and here.

Students in human resources in the School of Labor and Employment Relations can now take a course on Understanding Engineers to help them better recruit and develop engineering talent.  The powerpoint from the first week is below:

The powerpoint from the second week on “Engineering, Education & Modeling” may be viewed below:

Related presentations are available here.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak about “The Importance of Pairwork in Interdisciplinary and Educational Initiatives” at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference tomorrow, Monday, 19 October 2009, in the session M2F Promoting Engineering Student Success from 10-11:30 am in La Vista.  The powerpoint for the presentation is available in the viewer below

or at www.slideshare.net/deg511, and a pdf version of the paper is available on the FIE website here.

In ENG 198, Introduction to the Missing Basics of Engineering (syllabus here), the qualitative thinking skills (critical and creative) required to be a great engineer are covered.  In the powerpoint presentation below, the most elusive missing basic, labeling, is discussed:

Related presentation files (ppts) are available here and here.