an opportunity for your summer students
Profs!! ask your students who are interested in making the planet a better place to live to go check this out! Get in at the start of a cool new group on campus. http://www.sfspglobal.org/news/index.html
Archive of entries posted by Wendy Murphy
Free courseware (Transforming Engineering Education)
Keep your approach to teaching engineering topics current with a complete solution for measurements, circuits, and controls education from National Instruments. Using tools like the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment, NI hardware, and the NI Multisim circuits teaching environment extends hands-on-learning from the laboratory to the dorm room and equips students to experiment easier, learn …
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Webinar: April 27 on Future Work Skills
April 27th CHE Future Skills Webinar. http://chronicle.com/webinars/universityofphoenix4 Jim Spohrer will be speaking!
10th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education
October 24-27, 2011 Shanghai, China Shanghai International Conference Center The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) invites you to the annual Global Colloquium, which brings together the world’s leaders in engineering education. This year’s Colloquium will take place in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai International Conference Center. This year, ASEE is partnering with Shanghai Jiao …
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Promoting Innovation in the Services Sector
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe reports http://www.unece.org/ceci/publications/icp3.pdf
digital kids –> a new kind of education
Check this out!! I love it – these children, grades 6 – 12 are our future (needless to say). The new learning model is called “Quest to Learn” Started in 2006, the design is all about innovation, and capitalizing on the kids innate curiosity and energy with the hope to instill a love of life …
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Higher Education in the Age of the Cloud
Anyone thinking about education reform today should take a look at this video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State University.
DEADLINE EXTENDED CFP, Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education
Call for Participation – new deadline 2/23 4rdAnnual Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education and Integrate to Innovate Faculty Institute June 3-4th, 2011 Union College, Schenectady, NY www.union.edu/integration Union College will host the fourth annual symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education this spring to continue the discussion of the rationale for and methods of integrating …
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Article: Growing Imperative for Innovation Scientists and Engineers
Go here to read the article. at “Blogging Innovation” Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to organizations core capabilities. Quote: “What are the disciplines required to be mastered? There is a real need to …
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NEW BOOK!! #3 in the series from Springer: Introduction of Service Systems Implementation
See the abstract here Introduction of Service Systems Implementation Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer and Vikas Krishna available at Springer of course