3Space: Balanced Transformation of Engineering Education

3Space: Balanced Transformation of Engineering Education David E. Goldberg Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA [email_address]

Motivation & Roadmap
iFoundry began in 2007 with precursors in 1993.
Organizational design of iFoundry overcomes organizational resistance.
Cold war curriculum & an unbalanced curriculum.
Roadmap
A systems view of engineering education.
Artifacts as a starting point for engineering education.
3Space as balanced design for curriculum reform:
ThingSpace
ThinkSpace
FolkSpace
3Space Studios as way to advance content.
© David E. Goldberg 2008

Systems View of Change
Engineering education is a complex system.
Most change focuses on pedagogy & formal curriculum.
Organization & content often ignored.

Start with Artifacts, Not Analysis
Cold war content shifted to math and science.
Engineering is about artifacts (things)—products, processes, and systems—& use by people.
Want philosophically grounded view of engineering content.

3Space: A Systems Approach
Systematically and systemically work on content errors to effect curriculum change.
3Space:
ThingSpace
ThinkSpace
FolkSpace
© David E. Goldberg 2008 3Space

ThingSpace
ThingTalk-artifact language.
ThingViz-artifact visualization.
ThingTube-artifact video/audio.
ThingUse-customer requirements & usability.
ThingStyle-industrial design, aesthetics, and styling.
ThingMake-artifact manufacture & prototyping.
ThingLib-artifact libraries.
ThingSafe-artifact ethics & safety.
ThingPast-History and heroes of technology.

ThinkSpace
What engineer’s don’t learn:
Can’t question: Socrates 101.
Can’t label: Aristotle 101.
Can’t model: Hume 101 & Aristotle 102.
Can’t decompose: Descartes 101.
Can’t ideate: Osborn 101.
Can’t measure: Locke 101 or Bacon 101.
Can’t communicate: Newman 101

FolkSpace
Things created by people for people.
Important skills:
Conversation
Organization
Influence
Empathy
Modeling
Money & Markets
At personal, interpersonal, organizational, and cultural levels.

3Space Studios
Qualitative ThinkSpace, & all of ThingSpace and Folkspace relatively sparse.
Need to advance content rapidly through use of digital media and open source materials.
3Space Studios is generating materials starting Fall 2008.
These videos are pilot of those efforts.
Bottom line: Can take principled and balanced approach to curriculum reform in 3Space.
© David E. Goldberg 2008 http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/ifoundry

3Space: A Balanced Approach to the Transformation of Engineering Education David E. Goldberg Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA [email_address]

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