Desktop Engineering (Oct. 17) -- David Goldberg and his colleagues struck up an institutional partnership with iFoundry, the cross-disciplinary curriculum incubator at the U. of I. To identify the students’ primary motivation, they asked, “Why do you want to become an engineer?” The answers gave Goldberg and the faculty insights into who wanted to become an inventor, who wanted to tackle the world’s toughest sociopolitical problems, and who aimed to become an entrepreneur.