September 2007

Hamilton speaks on Production of Creativity, Wednesday, 9/26

UIUC’s own Kevin Hamilton will speak on The Production of Creativity: An Artist’s View of the Rise of “Creative Work” on Wednesday, 26 September, from 4-5 pm in 2405 Siebel. Download the talk announcement here.

Design Matters series starts 9/24

ETSI attendees may be interested in the series of lectures on campus entitled Design Matters. See the lecture web site here. I’ve reproduced the table of lectures below:

Date Time* Location Presenter Title
09/24/07 5:30pm Noyes Lab, Rm 100 Dan Heath “Made to Stick”
10/8/07 5:30pm Krannert Art Museum, Rm 62 Jim Wicks “RAZR and Beyond”
10/23/07 5:00pm Siebel Center, Rm 1404 Bill Verplank “Diagramming Interaction”
11/05/07** TBD Alice Campbell Alumni Ctr Bill McDonough “Sustainability” (working title)
11/13/07 5:00pm Siebel Center, Rm 1404 Andrew Burroughs “Design Thinking and Everyday Engineering”
TBD     Bruce Nussbaum “Design into Business”
TBD     Procter & Gamble “Interdisciplinary Teamwork”
TBD     Mark Frauenfelder “The New Maker Culture”
TBD     Roger Martin “Design Thinking”
TBD     James Dyson “Against the Odds”

* All events are expected to be 60-80 minutes in duration.
** Tentatively scheduled - subject to change.

Adesida, Katehi, & Wulf remarks now available

Remarks made by Dean Adesida, Provost Katehi, and Bill Wulf at the recent Workshop on the Engineer of the Future are available at the EOTF tab here.

Ruzic lectures on Energy, 12 September, 3:30 pm, 160 English

Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 12th, David Ruzic of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering will speak on The Future of Energy Use in the US & the World. The lecture is co-sponsored by ETSI and the Center for Global Studies as part of the Limits and Opportunities of Technology (LOT) series. The lecture is scheduled fro 3:30-5:00 pm in Room 160 English Building.

Engineer of the Future video available

on the EOTF tab here.