View webcasts of lectures from the Technology, Globalization, and Culture course at Iowa State University (Fall 2007). Lectures include:
Jim Duderstadt, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan on “The Globalization of Higher Education”
Newt Gingrich, Author of Winning the Future: A [...]

Recently, several articles have expressed concern for the low number of women in computer science. This is nothing new except, rather then blaming male and female stereotypes that may influence female’s decision to go into the field or emphasizing the lack of female professor role models, new ideas are challenging the way computer science [...]

According to an article this past January in the New York Times, entitled Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science the United States is lagging behind the rest of the world in the development of new S&T talents. Thanks to globalization, Americans have become reliant on “foreign-born workers to fill technical jobs” with no end [...]

Speaker urges revolution in engineering education
“America faces the very real prospect of losing its engineering competence in an era in which technological innovation is the key to economic competitiveness, national security and social well-being,” said Duderstadt, who is president emeritus of the University of Michigan, where he is a professor of science and engineering.
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In an [...]