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iFoundry West Coast SwingIllinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education
Philosophical, Organizational & Systems Innovations for Effective Change
D. E. Goldberg, A. Cangellaris, & R. PriceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
{deg,cangella,price1}@illinois.edu
Motivation• We live in a creative era, but… • Teach engineering curriculum formed in
crucible of WW2/cold war.• Need for change is widely recognized,
but…• Efforts at change local, misdirected, or
unsuccessful.• One-by-one efforts inherently limited.• Successes don’t diffuse & curriculum
change is slow.• Question: Can engineering education
change? Yes, but must direct efforts at the real problems.
Roadmap• Failure of engineering education change efforts.• Systems view of the problem of academic change.• iFoundry: Cross-departmental incubator or pilot.• What engineers don’t learn: A view from industrial-based
senior design.• 3Space as balanced framework: ThingSpace, ThinkSpace,
& FolkSpace.• Brass tacks: 6 foci for 2009-2009: ThingLab, 3Space Studios,
Operation Fresh, Admissions, Rollout planning & EOTF2.0.• Jerry says, “It’s for the kids:” Financial ways to help.• Alums & friends contributing their brains & time, too.
Can Engineering Education Change?• Creative era: category creators,
not just category enhancers.• Many failed efforts:
• Corporations: Sponsor research, conferences, educational change.
• Alums understand need for change in their work.
• Academy: NSF coalitions, Engineer of 2020, Duderstadt report, Olin College.
• Bottom line: Some success, no diffusion across departments, colleges, borders.
• Systems problem: Not firing on all cylinders.
• Change efforts isolated.• Philosophically unsound &
conceptually unclear.
Why Curriculum Doesn’t Change• Organizational resistance: Academic
NIMBY (not in my back yard) problem. OK to reform, but don’t change MY course!
• Content errors after WW2: Math and science squeezed out design in WW2 and cold war. Don’t have correct content or materials (books, cases, artifacts) to teach anything else.
• Reform doesn’t scale: Best exemplars require faculty heroics, funding, and exclusive dedication to undergraduate education. Won’t xfer verbatim to Illiniois with 5700 ugrads and world-class research enterprise.
Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
iFoundry: Unblocking the Organization
• Collaborative, interdepartmental pilot unit. Permit change.
• Volunteers. Enthusiasm for change among faculty & student participants.
• Existing authority. Use signatory authority for modification of curricula for immediate pilot.
• Respect faculty governance. Permanent changes go through usual channels.
• Scalability. 300 @ teaching U vs. 5700 at research U.
• Open-source curriculum change. Do it in the open.http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/ifoundry/files/2007/08/ifoundry_concept.pdf
What Engineers Don’t Learn: & Why They Don’t Learn It
• Experience from real-world senior design.• After 4 years they
– Can’t ask questions (Socrates 101).– Can’t label things (Aristotle 101).– Can’t model qualitatively (Aristotle 102, Hume
101). – Can’t decompose problems (Descartes 101). – Can’t experiment or measure (Locke 101).– Can’t visualize/draw (daVinci/Monge 101).– Can’t communicate (Newman 101).
• Huge “quality” failure: “product” (engineering students) inadequate to intended function.
• 7 failures as decomposition for repair.• Teach critical/creative thought: context of design.
Socrates (470-399 BCE)
Start with Artifacts, Not Analysis• Cold war content shifted
to math and science, but these are not the essence of engineering.
• Place artifacts (things)—products, processes, and systems—at center.
• Recognize importance of engineeering thought (think) and engineering as social process (folk).
• Yields philosophically well grounded decomposition.
3Space: A Balanced, Systems Approach
• Content, 3Space:– ThingSpace: Artifacts as key
product of engineering thought.
– ThinkSpace: Engineers do more thinking than mere math & science.
– FolkSpace: Engineering is performed by and for groups of people.
• Cold war curriculum unbalanced toward math & science in ways unacceptable in a creative era.
3Space
Big Picture: Aims of Revisions
Professional MS Degree w/ Advanced Analysis
BS
MS
1st yr
Fa08/Sp09 Foci: 6 Elements
• Fall08:• ThingLab: Lab
transforms graphics to ThingSpace basics.
• 3Space Studios: Digital media to promote open & viral curriculum development.
• Operation Fresh: Transformation of the freshmen year of engineering.
• Spring09– Admissions: Design and
implement admissions process for first cohort.
– Rollout planning: Coursework & changes in place for Fa09 students.
– Engineer of the Future: April 1st part of Olin-Illinois Partnership.
The Students Are Coming! Fa09 Rollout Goals
• Increased balance in 3Space: from cold war to creative era curriculum (category creators & enhancers).
• Increased joy of engineering: Improved recruitment & retention, including women & minorities.
• Increased student choice: Improved satisfaction and ownership of degree.
• Integrated student life from get go.
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
• Different departments choose different options:– Basic iFoundry option: ENG 100++ and HAPI
themes.– Student-life plans: Teamwork for Quality
Education (TQE).– Optional options: Freshman Think/Thingspace
Option & Qualitative science swap.– Departmental pilot changes.
Cast of 1000s: Not Just Engineers• Ray Fouche (History) history and
culture of technology. • David E. Goldberg (IESE) innovation
theory, engin philosophy/history.• Laura Hahn (Center for Teaching
Excellence) student engagement & improving pedagogy.
• Bill Hammack (ChemE) technology for civilians.
• Laura Hollis (Business Administration & TEC) law & entrepreneurship.
• Alex Kirlik (Human Factors) human factors and engin psych.
• Russ Korte (Education) transition to school & work.
• Jim Leake (IESE), visualization, graphics, product realization.
• Michael Loui (ECE). Engineering ethics & professionalism.
• Deana McDonagh (Art & Design) emotional design.
• Ray Price (IESE), emotional intelligence and leadership.
• Christian Sandvig (Communications), gaming, communications & tech.
• Sharra Vostral (Gender & Women Studies) women, technology & design
• David Weightman (Art & Design), industrial design.
• Sarah Zehr (Career Services), communications & career planning.
Jerry Says “It’s For the Kids”
• iFoundry student scholars: $2k/year/student.
• iFoundry fellows: $5k/semester/fellow. • Inquiries in Engineering Education
Lecture Series (IEE): $10k - $20k/year.• iFoundry teams (25 students, like
baseball team): $10k-25k/team/year.• 3SpaceStudios digital upgrade: $100k-
250k one time.• iFoundry endowment and naming
opportunity ($5M - $10M).Jerry Lewis (b. 1926)
iFoundry Wants You!
• Subscribe YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook.• Virtual visit: YouTube videos and
SlideShare ppts, tales from the trenches.• Real visit: short (lecture), medium
(Engineer in Residence) or long (Prof of Practice).
• Promote iFoundry aid from your company.
• Team mentor/sponsor (see previous page).
• EOTF2.0 & Alliance for Promoting Innovation in Engineering Education.
• Advisory board in formation.
More Information
• iFoundry: http://www.ifoundry.illinois.edu • ETSI: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/etsi • Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering:
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe • Engineer of the Future 2.0:
http://engineerofthefuture.olin.edu/
• YouTube: www.youtube.com/illinoisfoundry
• SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/ifoundry