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3Space: Balanced Transformation of Engineering Education David E. Goldberg Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA [email protected]
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he cold war engineering curriculum overemphasized math and science at the expense of design. The 3Space initiative at the University of Illinois redresses that imbalance by starting from artifacts, working toward a broader vision of engineering knowledge and reasoning, and remembering that engineering is an activity by and for people.
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3Space: Balanced Transformation of Engineering Education
David E. GoldbergIllinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, IL 61801 USA
Motivation & Roadmap
• iFoundry began in 2007 with precursors in 1993.• Organizational design of iFoundry overcomes organizational
resistance.• Cold war curriculum & an unbalanced curriculum.• Roadmap
– A systems view of engineering education. – Artifacts as a starting point for engineering education.– 3Space as balanced design for curriculum reform:
– ThingSpace– ThinkSpace– FolkSpace
– 3Space Studios as way to advance content.
© David E. Goldberg 2008
Systems View of Change
• Engineering education is a complex system.
• Most change focuses on pedagogy & formal curriculum.
• Organization & content often ignored.
© David E. Goldberg 2008
Start with Artifacts, Not Analysis• Cold war content shifted
to math and science.• Engineering is about
artifacts (things)—products, processes, and systems—& use by people.
• Want philosophically grounded view of engineering content.
© David E. Goldberg 2008
3Space: A Systems Approach
• Systematically and systemically work on content errors to effect curriculum change.
• 3Space:– ThingSpace– ThinkSpace– FolkSpace
© David E. Goldberg 2008
3Space
ThingSpace• ThingTalk-artifact language.• ThingViz-artifact visualization.• ThingTube-artifact video/audio.• ThingUse-customer requirements &
usability.• ThingStyle-industrial design,
aesthetics, and styling.• ThingMake-artifact manufacture &
prototyping. • ThingLib-artifact libraries.• ThingSafe-artifact ethics & safety.• ThingPast-History and heroes of
technology.
© David E. Goldberg 2008
ThinkSpace• What engineer’s don’t
learn:– Can’t question: Socrates 101.– Can’t label: Aristotle 101.– Can’t model: Hume 101 &
Aristotle 102.– Can’t decompose: Descartes
101.– Can’t ideate: Osborn 101.– Can’t measure: Locke 101 or
Bacon 101.– Can’t communicate: Newman
101
© David E. Goldberg 2008
FolkSpace• Things created by people
for people.• Important skills:
– Conversation– Organization– Influence– Empathy – Modeling– Money & Markets
• At personal, interpersonal, organizational, and cultural levels.
© David E. Goldberg 2008
3Space Studios
• Qualitative ThinkSpace, & all of ThingSpace and Folkspace relatively sparse.
• Need to advance content rapidly through use of digital media and open source materials.
• 3Space Studios is generating materials starting Fall 2008.
• These videos are pilot of those efforts.• Bottom line: Can take principled and balanced
approach to curriculum reform in 3Space.
© David E. Goldberg 2008
http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/ifoundry
3Space: A Balanced Approach to the Transformation of Engineering
EducationDavid E. Goldberg
Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801 [email protected]
