The Chicago Tribune (Feb. 17) -- iFoundry co-founder and ISE emeritus professor David E. Goldberg helped change how we share content in 2004 when he co-founded the social sharing startup ShareThis at Illinois. Today, as a resident of Douglas, Mich., Goldberg is working to change how the world teaches engineering.
Related story: The Chicago Tribune (Feb. 20) -- What kind of engineer does the world need? An entirely different one, says David Goldberg, an Illinois engineering administrator who co-founded ShareThis at Illinois. After World War II, he says, “we had big, hierarchical companies with employees and engineers who were socially captive to their organizations. Essentially, we wanted engineers to sit down and shut up and do what they were told.”