Mount Marty College has launched a new leadership minor for undergraduates that truly follows the spirit of the interdisciplinary program guide. Bonita Gacnik, O.S.B., Ph.D contacted me about a year ago to understand the guide and ideas about service science. Then she and her team made it their own, to fit local needs and Mt …
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From the April edition of the Journal Of Engineering Education http://www.jee.org/2011/April/10 An interesting study: “Student and Faculty Interdisciplinary Identities in Self Managed Teams” How can self-managed work teams can be used as a pedagogical strategy for promoting interdisciplinarity? LISA D. MCNAIR Virginia Tech CHAD NEWSWANDER University of South Dakota DANIEL BODEN Virginia Tech MAURA BORREGO …
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“to compete effectively in a knowledge-based economy — business leaders of all kinds need to reinvent themselves as innovators in services.” http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11210?gko=af24f&cid=TL20110616
go to yahoo finance story: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/3gs-mindset-over-skill-set-critical-landing-job-125910227.html?nc the 3 G’s Global: This is the big picture perspective. It is your ability to lift your eyes out of the weeds, look at the world and understand the ripple effect of your actions. Good: This is the sensitivity to people and awareness of and the inkling to …
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June 16 event at San Jose State University in Menlo Park, CA… Global Innovation Forum – Innovation and the Digital Generation http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/gif2011/agenda.html
Watson is Webby Person of the Year The Webby Awards The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, …
http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-1-4419-8320-6?changeHeader Series: Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy Macintyre, Mairi; Parry, Glenn; Angelis, Jannis (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, XXII, 169 p. 100 illus.
The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering December 12-14, 2011, Irvine, CA, USA Collocated with SOCA, KSEM, RTSOAA and KASTLES Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society; Co-sponsored by: Arizona State University, San Jose State University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oxford Brookes University, University of Leeds.
Link: http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ilss/speaker-series.html
From the March/April issue of ASEE’s PRISM see the National Foundation Director, Subra Suresh, talk about tearing down barriers to research collaboration http://www.prism-magazine.org/mar-apr11/feature_01.cfm (*American Society for Engineering Education)