Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois

The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering has issued its call for papers here. The workshop will be held at TUDelft, October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are due 17 August 2007.

Cliff Christians is offering his Philosophy of Technology seminar, Comm 577, in Fall 2007 at the UIUC on Tuesdays from 3-5 pm. The course syllabus may be downloaded here, and those interested in further information should contact the instructor here.

The video of Fouche’s Engineering Hip Hop is available here, synched video-ppt here, and pdf of ppt here.

for next year’s ETC lecture series.  We are looking for speakers from off-campus and on for next fall’s series. 

Send your suggestions to Michael Loui or me, Dave Goldberg.

Is as follows:

• UNITED STATES 82.11%
• CHINA 2.66%
• VIET NAM 2.24%
• JAPAN 2.05%
• CANADA 1.99%
• GERMANY 1.15%
• ITALY 0.85%
• INDIA 0.79%
• TAIWAN 0.79%
• MALAYSIA 0.54%
• Others 4.83%

Who’d a thunk we were so popular in Vietnam?

I gave a couple of talks about engineering and creativity in the UK last week, and they are available over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer here and here (using www.slideshare.net viewers).

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.