Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois

The ETC series was scheduled to show Gary Downey’s video lecture and follow it with a video conference with Gary in the NCSA Auditorium at 12 noon on May 2, 2007. Because of the recent events at Virginia Tech, that activity is canceled and those interested are encourage to watch the lecture online (here).

Reminder: Rayvon Fouche (UIUC, History Dept.) will speak on Engineering Hip Hop: Crossfaders, Mixers, and Digital Turn in 112 Transportation Building (104 S. Mathews between Springfield and Green) today 12 noon-1 pm. See the full seminar announcement here.

Go to the lectures page here.

NASA administrator, Michael D. Griffin, has implicitly endorsed the ideas behind the ETSI/ETC  efforts in his Two Cultures speech given recently at Purdue University.  Read the text over here.

All of the ETC lectures have been recorded on video and are available here.

A special seminar will be given by Dr. Tom Osborn of Proctor & Gamble on Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 3-4 pm, in 403B2 Engineering Hall on Views on Successful Innovation & Innovators. Dr. Osborn is one of select group of Victor Mills Research Fellows at P&G. His inventions have helped generate sales in excess of $1.5 billion dollars/years, he is holder of 122 US patents, and his work has spanned many technologies and disciplines. The seminar is sponsored by the IESE Department and the course, GE 498MTV, Creative Modeling for Technology Visionaries. A pdf file with short seminar announcement can be downloaded here.

Mark Bedau of the Philosophy Department, Reed College, and Protolife will speak on Living Technology: Scientific Prospects, Practical Applications, and Social Implications Wednesday, 12 noon, 112 Transportation Building.

ETC is pleased to announce a special surprise speaker appropriate to the date.  Larry Page, co-founder of Google will fly his Google 767 into Champaign Willard Airport and deliver an ETC address, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Search Engine. Further detail is available here. Other date appropriate stories are available here and here.