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10th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education

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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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Education in the Age of Smart Machines

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Education is arguably society’s most important type of service.  Education is also slow to change in many ways.  However, that was before the age of smart machines. To find out why and how things are about to change, be sure to be on hand, when on June 3 at Union College in Schenectady, New York, David Ferruci, the …

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SRII Conference: Rapid Evolution of Service Capabilities

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The SRII Global Conference took place in San Jose, California last week. Below I provide a summary of the conference flow over five days of events, and then some summary comments about the accelerating evolution of service capabilities enabled by the cloud and smart phones. On Tuesday, the SRII SIG and Chapter meetings took place. …

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digital kids –> a new kind of education

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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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A view of the public sector – wrong direction?

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Bruce Holland’s  Strategic Snippet Is the Public Sector is going in the wrong direction? February, 2011 The purpose of this Snippet is to illustrate how bureaucracy and red tape may be driving the Public Service in the wrong direction. Indeed, because of unquestioned assumptions,  government may be inadvertently designing failure into many things they do …

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DEADLINE EXTENDED CFP, Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education

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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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