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Simulation success

By Guest PostSeptember 28, 2013Education, Scienceasc, bazle haque, carbon fiber, ccm, development process, epoxy, factor, jack gillespie, limited data, mechanical engineering, michael keefe, pennsylvania state university, raja ganesh, simulation success, subramani sockalingam, university of delaware

Engineering doctoral students win Composites Simulation Challenge

Two University of Delaware mechanical engineering doctoral students working in the Center for Composite Materials, Subramani Sockalingam and Raja Ganesh, took first prize at the American Society for Composites (ASC) inaugural Student Simulation Challenge held Sept. 9 at Pennsylvania State University.

The goal of the 12-hour competition, held during the annual ASC Technical Conference, was to see which student team could best predict the behavior of a composite laminate material that included a pattern of holes. (more…)

Mobile computing in the ‘bring your own device’ era

By Guest PostSeptember 26, 2013Education, Technologyacademic work, byod, byod friendly, device, era, gartner study, jeff capuano, len peters, mobile computing, patrick lynch, smartphone, university cio, us college student, wireless network, yale

Early in September Yale passed a milestone in mobile computing, with a record 39,414 mobile devices connected to its wireless networks. As on most college campuses the growth of mobile computing at Yale has been explosive, from well under 10,000 devices three years ago to almost 40,000 today.

A recent Gartner study showed that smartphone ownership among college students went from 55% in 2011 to 62% in 2012, and the percentage of students using their smartphones for academic work doubled in the same period. The typical U.S. college student now routinely uses between 2-3 wireless devices, and higher education computing experts predict that average to grow to 3-4 devices over the next year. (more…)

From military to MBA

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Educationafghanistan, arabian peninsula, black sea, charles altman, d day planning, ernie lietzan, gi bill, heidi sandell, infantry, Iraq, level of accuracy, marine captain, marine corps base, marine infantry, mba program, middle east, military service, military to mba, national guard, operation new dawn, persian gulf, philip miller, quantico, robert paulus, university of minnesota, virginia

How the Carlson School supports veterans going for an MBA

Looking to apply to an MBA program, Heidi Sandell faced a common problem among veterans.

“I had a hard time translating my skills into something the business world could use and appreciate,” says Sandell, who served four years in the U.S. Navy. (more…)

First Readings: A first taste of college life

By Guest PostSeptember 17, 2013Culture, Education1938 olympics, anti lbgtq, beautiful souls, berlin, broker, brown university, Chicago, college life, croats, dan harwood, eyal press, first readings, first readings seminars, first taste, florida, hayley bounds, hitler, hong kong, illegal settlements, illinois, israeli commando, labor day, new york, olympic, omer bartov, Ponzi Scheme, president christina paxson, professor of history, russia, sense of empathy, serbian, smuggled jews, south korea, swiss border guard, us states

On Monday morning — Labor Day — first-year students gathered in classrooms around campus for their First Readings seminars. The program, initiated at Brown seven years ago, is designed to give new students a common reading experience and prepare them for college life.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Classes don’t officially begin until Wednesday, but first-year students got their first taste of academic life at Brown on the first Monday in September, when all 1,537 of them gathered in classrooms around campus for the annual First Readings seminars. (more…)

Winning poster

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Education, Sciencebehavior issues, canr doctoral student, carissa wickens, denmark, equine welfare issues, inga wolframm, ises conference, jessica weir, new bolton center, student poster competition, theory for horses, university of delaware, university of pennsylvania, winning poster

CANR doctoral student Weir wins first place at 2013 ISES conference

Before coming to the University of Delaware, Jessica Weir had never heard of the International Society for Equitation Science (ISES) conference.

Now, after a year spent helping Carissa Wickens, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences (ANFS), set up the organization’s ninth annual conference — hosted collaboratively by UD and the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center from July 18-20 — Weir is both fully versed in the event and plans to attend the 2014 ISES session in Denmark. (more…)

From Mentee to Mentor, Berkeley Lab’s Education Programs Inspire Scientists

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Education, Scienceadvanced light source, austin, bacteriaphage virology, bay area, berkeley lab, bioprospecting project, csee program, cxro, earth sciences division, education programs, environmental sample, fusion research division, georgia, mary singer, mentee, mentor, microbiology, seno rekawa, sri lanka, tamas torok, university of texas, university of wisconsin

Question: “What did you do this summer?” Answer: “I built the Advanced Light Source.”

It’s the rare undergraduate who can say they spent their vacation building a third-generation synchrotron, but that’s exactly what Seno Rekawa did in the summer of 1991 as an intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It was an auspicious start to his career. Less than five years later, he was working as a full-time engineer at Berkeley Lab and now is a regular mentor to budding high school and college engineers.

Berkeley Lab’s Center for Science and Engineering Education (CSEE), with its range of internship offerings, helps to fulfill one of the Lab’s mandates, which is to inspire and prepare this country’s next generation of scientists, engineers and technicians. This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels. (more…)

For many who work in his lab, Robert Crabtree is the quintessential mentor

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 2013Education19th century, british literature, cnrs, England, everybody happy, joseph chatt, malcolm green, oana luca, oxford university, professor, robert crabtree, scientific knowledge, ulrich hintermair, university of sussex, yale chemistry

Periodically, Yale chemistry professor Robert Crabtree strolls through his laboratory, sometimes whistling, and pauses to ask the students who work with him: “Everybody happy?”

According to Ulrich Hintermair, who conducted research in his lab as a postdoctoral fellow for the past two-and-a-half years, Crabtree’s concern with his research team’s wellbeing is just one of many qualities that distinguish him as a mentor at Yale. (more…)

A new look at how to evaluate teachers

By Guest PostAugust 19, 2013Educationeducation community, evaluate teachers, good teaching, teacher evaluations, teachers at work

ANN ARBOR — One of the most extensive collections of videos showing teachers at work in the classroom will be available this fall at the University of Michigan to help researchers learn more about how to evaluate good teaching and how to develop excellent teachers. (more…)

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