Illinois and Olin Aim to Transform Engineering Education
Posted on September 22, 2008 Comments (2)
It appears Illinois is preparing to attempt to apply some of the idea piloted at Olin on a larger scale. It will be very interesting to see what happens. Illinois Partners with Olin College to Transform Engineering Education
As part of this effort Illinois seems to be using a new something (I am not sure what it should be called): iFoundry. Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, is an interdepartmental curriculum incubator in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois designed to pilot principled change while respecting faculty governance.
Related: Innovative Science and Engineering Higher Education Olin Engineering Education Experiment – National Science Board Report on Improving Engineering Education – Improving Engineering Education the Olin Way – Leah Jamieson on the Future of Engineering Education
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2 Responses to “Illinois and Olin Aim to Transform Engineering Education”
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September 24th, 2008 @ 6:35 am
Thank you for the post about iFoundry and the Olin-Illinois Partnership. Your readers may also be interested in our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/illinoisfoundry and our SlideShare slidespace at http://www.slideshare.net/ifoundry. A portion of the iFoundry notion is to try new elements of the curriculum through the aggressive use of digital media to promote a kind of viral curriculum reform.
March 9th, 2015 @ 8:34 pm
Innovation in engineering education will pay high dividends, especially providing a focus on the nexus of engineering and entrepreneurship…