Recently, a former Boeing engineer has made comments about the 787 Dreamliner being unsafe in an accident. The specific charge is that the carbon fiber body will fracture in a crash, and will produce toxic smoke in a fire. I am not qualified to judge the merits of the charge. That isn’t the point of [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Ethics in Engineering
Posted in Ethics on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Virtual Lecture
Posted in Signals and Systems, Technology, classes, tablet pc on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve begun to record lectures for my Signals and Systems class using Lecturescribe. Lecturescribe is a free program that works with the Tablet PC to create flash lectures. I can record audio and write on an electronic whiteboard to cover material. The production quality isn’t great, (partly me, partly the program being cumbersome), but for [...]
Project Management
Posted in Project Management, classes on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
As I have mentioned before, my Project Management class is overfull, with two sections of 16 students and counting. Most of the students are from India, and I suppose that they would like to stay in the US after graduating, which leads to another issue.
India (as one student verified in class) is very hierarchical in [...]
First Attempt
Posted in Technology, tablet pc on September 8, 2007 | No Comments »
I tried my first attempt at using the Tablet PCs in class yesterday (Friday). Four out of 18 of the tablets managed to connect to the wireless network, and one was found to be nonworking (worked last week). The wireless guy had put a new access point outside of the room, but that didn’t seem [...]
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