Posted in Spirituality, Techie Stuff on 25 June 2008 | No Comments »
On Monday, the keynote speaker at the engineering education conference I’m attending was discussing a project of the National Academy of Engineering, called Grand Challenges for Engineering. A team of high profile and visionary thinkers was assembled to think about the things that the world most needs as we look forward, and what we engineers [...]
Posted in People and culture, Techie Stuff on 11 June 2008 | 4 Comments »
In my recent post about our autonomous vehicle team, I was commenting about how impressed I was with these students. The “Millennial Generation”, or those born from around 1982 to around 1998, are the primary age demographic I see in my engineering classes at the university. Here are some of the characteristics of these young [...]
Posted in Techie Stuff on 2 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, this was the year for our students to win the Grand Award in the annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. I was very happy for them, as they have been working so hard for many months, and they couldn’t be a nicer group of young people - good for them!
There are many great stories of [...]
Posted in Nun, Spirituality, Techie Stuff on 22 May 2008 | No Comments »
I just came upon a website that I thought I’d mention. If you know anyone who is discerning a vocation to religious life, you may want to pass this on to them: VISION Vocation Match. The site guides you through questions about what kind of community experience, ministry, prayer styles, etc. you are attracted [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Techie Stuff on 20 April 2008 | No Comments »
So as you may have noticed the feed near the top of my sidebar (to the right), I’ve been bitten by the Twitter bug. So what IS Twitter, other than that thing that birds are doing a lot of these beautiful spring days? Well, it’s a way to keep in touch with folks similar [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Techie Stuff on 18 April 2008 | No Comments »
Well, today was the last day of class - the end is in view. A few review sessions, making up and grading exams, grading a final project report are what await me now, but I’m still having a small inward celebration…
Perhaps the most stressful thing for both me and the students was the joint project [...]
Posted in Spirituality, Techie Stuff on 12 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
I soooo don’t have time to be updating this blog…the conference work has me way behind on my regular grading, but I’m in the home stretch on that…most of the conference work will be finished by April 21.
Since music is one of my passions, I thought I’d tell you about a couple of on-line [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Techie Stuff on 31 January 2008 | 4 Comments »
The last few days, I’ve been worried about how I was going to get to the mothership in Baden (western PA) for our Saturday meeting, since my part of Michigan is due to be clobbered with 6 to 10 inches of snow starting at midnight tonight. I was planning to leave immediately after my 11:00 [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Techie Stuff on 23 January 2008 | No Comments »
If you are thinking about hosting a blog, check out the latest news from the WordPress crew. Basically, they are upping the quota of free storage space from 50MB to 3GB, a 60-fold increase! Now I’ll have to start giving you more pictures to break up the text…
So how’s this for a random photo…? It [...]
Posted in Anti-racism, Justice, Techie Stuff on 21 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
In honor of our remembrance of MLK’s birthday, and as a reminder of the work that still lies ahead, I’ve added a new feature to this blog. If you scroll down, you’ll see on the side bar a link to videos that I recommend. My first pick is of the entire “I have a dream” [...]
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