Month: July 2010

  • Scaling, not innovation

    There was in interesting editorial in the business magazine Bloomberg by the founder of Intel, Andy Grove, on job creation.  In the editorial he shares his belief that for job creation the current focus on innovation and start-up companies, which we have wholeheartedly adopted in engineering education, needs to be matched by a stronger focus…

  • C’mon you tinkers, hackers, and makers…

    Here is a collection of short briefs that caught my interest in the last few weeks… There was an short article in the excellent Atlantic Monthly “Ideas Report” about Dale Dougherty the founder of Make Magazine (a friend got me a subscription for Christmas, thanks Anna!).  The article briefly outlined the potential for education that…