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End of Fall 2008 semester, 21 Dec 2008; consult versions up until this date for what actually occurring during the semester. Eml4500.f08 14:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Interesting news:
Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California, By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 18, 2008. Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.
IMPORTANT: The perils of plagiarizing wikipedia; see Falling exam passes blamed on Wikipedia 'littered with inaccuracies', 21 June 2008, by Martyn Mclaughlin, News.Scotsman.com. "WIKIPEDIA and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland's falling exam pass rates."
Mourning the Death of Handwriting, By Claire Suddath. Time Magazine, Monday, Aug. 03, 2009.
Model HW report: Current version Archived version
MIT's OpenCourseWare course(s): Current version Archived version
Introduction: Current version Archived version
NACA Airfoil: Current version Archived version
Plate buckling: Current version Archived version
How to run an airplane (a Rube-Goldberg device) and more ... |
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Rube Goldberg device: Rube Goldberg device: How to run an airplane. I learned of "Rube Goldberg devices" from watching the excellent lecture Storytelling in Science: Honesty, Imagination and Ethics by Prof. Roald Hoffmann. In particular, here are some quotes that are inspiring in your own "story telling" when you write your HW reports:
Eml4500.f08 12:40, 9 November 2008 (UTC) |
Cooperation and competition |
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I recently watched the speech of Charles Vest, MIT President Emeritus, Innovation: A 21st Century Imperative, 8 Mar 2006, and extracted the following interesting excerpts:
Then in a recent op-ed article in the New York Times, you can see an illustration of the above principle in real life:
The CEO's of the big-3 auto makers went to Congress to ask for money, 19 Nov 2008:
Detroit bid for aid fails - for now, 20 Nov 2008:
Check out the stock price of General Motors vs. Toyota in comparison with the Dow Jones Industrial Average; click at "Max" at the bottom of the chart to see the change since 1962. Note the effect of the recessions in the early '80s, the early '90s, and the current recession. Note also the gas-guzzler age of the '90s. Then watch the Frontline program Heat to have a better understanding of what the automotive industry and the oil industry have been doing... Eml4500.f08 14:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC) An update to the above story: Obama Sees ‘Painful’ Birth of New G.M., By DAVID E. SANGER, JEFF ZELENY and BILL VLASIC, Published: June 1, 2009. NY Times. A Reader Q.&A. on G.M.’s Bankruptcy, Published: June 1, 2009, NY Times. Eas4200c.f08 19:06, 1 June 2009 (UTC) |
Rules to review top-3 HW reports: Archived version
HW report table: Archived version
Comments to classes: Archived version
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djvu: Fast download (viewers evince or DjView4). Meetings 1-9 (2.9 MB) Mtgs 10-18 (4.6 MB) Mtgs 19-27 (3.6 MB) Mtgs 28-36 (4.3 MB) Mtgs 37-41 (2.5 MB).
pdf: Slow download. After clicking on a link, wait for about a minute to allow for the transfer of data to your browser or to your pdf viewer: Meetings 1-9 (19 MB) Mtgs 10-18 (30 MB) Mtgs 19-27 (23 MB) Mtgs 28-36 (24 MB) Mtgs 37-41 (15 MB).