A student can familiarize himself with M$ Windows/Office outside of class when he works on long essays. Chances are, he's going to have to use a word processing program for other classes, anyway.
Class time should be set aside for teaching English and communicating one-on-one with students, not trying to interface through an intermediary.
If you said footnotes, try again. Nobody in uses footnotes after college is over.
Did we forget a word here? D paper! Try again! (Sorry, just had to:)
Seriously...experience with a word processing program will come in many courses as one goes through college. Experience referencing your sources should also, but sometimes it takes a Nazi English professor to *ahem* reinforce the importance of stating where you obtained your information.
Mod me down also if you like, but Clockwork has a point here.
Several years ago, I thought my driving skills were quite adequate. I went way too fast in bad conditions and other nonsense...I seemed to know the "limits" of my vehicle.
The limits get shifted, however, when some asswipe decides they want to do something stupid...like thinking their car is "designed to slide." In this situation, the rules get redefined for other people on the road with them.
Something that changed my outlook on my driving skills was having a head-on collision with someone that jumped the center rail over to my side of a major interstate highway. Let's just say I'm lucky to be sitting here typing today. My car had no ABS, or even an airbag. With either/both of these systems, I probably would have spent much less time in the hospital, and possibly walked away from the accident.
As a driver today, I don't follow too close, slow down in bad conditions, take a break when I'm tired, etc. The "other guy" is more often than not the problem, and driving conservatively and defensively is the best way to avoid him.
But when the other guy thinks his car is "designed to slide" and that he can handle it in "quite a controlled fashion," it adds alot of uncertainty and danger to the situation.
1. The education was more important to me than the reputation (or more precisely, name recognition). I made my choice for that reason. My point is it's sad my school was effectively shut out (see #3).
2. I don't know if you attended the *other school*, or if you've ever lived in this state and understand its politics, but here having a sports program does tend to make a difference.
3. When the other school so tightly controls the Board of Regents that no other state school is allowed to offer EE/ME/CE degrees, there's something wrong. Competition is a good thing.
BigB - I wasn't saying schools with sports programs can't have a good engineering program, just that having a sports program tends to help the situation.
I went to this school because of the type of education it offered. I want to be an engineer that knows what I'm engineering.
If I were more interested in moving into management, I probably would have chosen the other school.
Your response implies that I am not intelligent, which is exactly the point of my original post. Would it have been different if I had inserted the name of your favorite football team for my college?
The only person at fault for the degrees granted by and job opportunities available from the school you're going to is *YOU*, as it's *YOU* who chose the school.
The *people* at fault for the degrees granted by the school I attended are the politicians in charge of our state's educational system. I only wish I had a say in these matters.
I attended a public university and majored in EET. We took all courses someone with an EE degree would take, minus the somewhat useless thermodynamics and other ME related courses.
Our curriculum was very "hands on," which allowed us to actually apply the theoretical classroom knowledge in the lab (and yes, we learned the theory). Higher level courses consist more of project milestones than tests, which mimic the typical development cycle of a new product being constructed and prepped for market (including the boring tech writing stuff).
Our professors must have several years of industry experience before teaching, class sizes remain small, and best of all the professor actually teaches the course and the lab section.
The only thing keeping our program from issuing EE degrees instead of EET degrees is a much larger state university down the road that has a football and basketball team (read: has much more political influence in the state).
As this article clearly demonstrates, big schools get most of the attention with a headline like this. Small schools with no sports program trudge along, pumping out very knowledgeable grads, who get funny looks when they mention their school name in a job interview.
Sad, indeed.
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Just to see if they had a secure ordering process (it was obviously foreign), I started to place an order.
Turns out, you have to make a wire transfer to their bank account in order to get one. When's the last time you went to your bank for a wire transfer (note: there are extra fees involved).
Also, shipping to the US is US$50. So raise the minimum price to US$500.
I've had this idea for a while, and think it would really send the record companies a strong message, but I don't have the time/resources to implement it.
If we're truly interested in providing artists with compensation for the music we "share," we should pay them directly.
If every time we download a song, we throw a check in the mail, addressed to the artist directly (or one of the members in the case of groups), how would it be possible for the record companies to interfere? Put some bogus comment in the "For" line of your check and the record company would have no recourse...right (IANAL)?
The only thing that would be needed is for someone to create a list of where to mail the checks for different artists. Maybe a fan club or something.
Our school has been using these for a couple years now.
They're very convenient when the professor decides to utilize them. In a digital design class I'm taking now, where we program in assembly, it's nice for us and for the professor to be able to display and scroll through sample code.
There's a regular white board right next to the SmartBoard, so the professor can write as he pleases while leaving the SmartBoard display alone.
The only bad thing about them is the "overwriting" of the image with the special markers. Anything written is very, very low resolution. About the only thing our professor uses that feature for is to cross out a section of code on the screen.
The Chinese government is pursuing embryonic cloning and research because:
1. Money. China, if it creates new stem cell lines, would be eyed by major research companies and the pharmaceutical industry as holding the potential for millions of dollars in revenue.
2. No opposition. In a country where an individual and the individual's family are severely punished for having more than one child, and the government jails its people for religious expression, who is going to oppose this. In China, the government can effectively say "Throw all inhibitions to the wind. No one will oppose us."
That being said, though, China is headed in the wrong direction. Embryonic stem cell research, while showing "potential," has produced no results.
In fact, Chinese medical officials, in another case of jumping the gun, injected stem cells into a suffering Parkinson's patient. The results were horrific. Because we don't yet know how to control stem cells, they grew wildly and developed into one of the most primitive and terrifying cancers, a "teratoma." When finally autopsied -- the cure killed the poor soul -- they found at the brain site of the injection a tumor full of hair, bone and skin.
On the other hand, research conducted in the US has shown much more promise as a result of adult stem cells .
Adult stem cells were shown to be able to turn into every single tissue in the body. This would eliminate the need for therapeutic cloning and ESCR, as adult stem cells could be taken from the afflicted person and turned into needed tissues without concern for rejection.
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Anyone know if the guy's gonna release his plans?
Class time should be set aside for teaching English and communicating one-on-one with students, not trying to interface through an intermediary.
Did we forget a word here? D paper! Try again! (Sorry, just had to:)
Seriously...experience with a word processing program will come in many courses as one goes through college. Experience referencing your sources should also, but sometimes it takes a Nazi English professor to *ahem* reinforce the importance of stating where you obtained your information.
Several years ago, I thought my driving skills were quite adequate. I went way too fast in bad conditions and other nonsense...I seemed to know the "limits" of my vehicle.
The limits get shifted, however, when some asswipe decides they want to do something stupid...like thinking their car is "designed to slide." In this situation, the rules get redefined for other people on the road with them.
Something that changed my outlook on my driving skills was having a head-on collision with someone that jumped the center rail over to my side of a major interstate highway. Let's just say I'm lucky to be sitting here typing today. My car had no ABS, or even an airbag. With either/both of these systems, I probably would have spent much less time in the hospital, and possibly walked away from the accident.
As a driver today, I don't follow too close, slow down in bad conditions, take a break when I'm tired, etc. The "other guy" is more often than not the problem, and driving conservatively and defensively is the best way to avoid him.
But when the other guy thinks his car is "designed to slide" and that he can handle it in "quite a controlled fashion," it adds alot of uncertainty and danger to the situation.
2. I don't know if you attended the *other school*, or if you've ever lived in this state and understand its politics, but here having a sports program does tend to make a difference.
3. When the other school so tightly controls the Board of Regents that no other state school is allowed to offer EE/ME/CE degrees, there's something wrong. Competition is a good thing.
BigB - I wasn't saying schools with sports programs can't have a good engineering program, just that having a sports program tends to help the situation.
If I were more interested in moving into management, I probably would have chosen the other school.
Your response implies that I am not intelligent, which is exactly the point of my original post. Would it have been different if I had inserted the name of your favorite football team for my college?
The only person at fault for the degrees granted by and job opportunities available from the school you're going to is *YOU*, as it's *YOU* who chose the school.
The *people* at fault for the degrees granted by the school I attended are the politicians in charge of our state's educational system. I only wish I had a say in these matters.
Our curriculum was very "hands on," which allowed us to actually apply the theoretical classroom knowledge in the lab (and yes, we learned the theory). Higher level courses consist more of project milestones than tests, which mimic the typical development cycle of a new product being constructed and prepped for market (including the boring tech writing stuff).
Our professors must have several years of industry experience before teaching, class sizes remain small, and best of all the professor actually teaches the course and the lab section. The only thing keeping our program from issuing EE degrees instead of EET degrees is a much larger state university down the road that has a football and basketball team (read: has much more political influence in the state).
As this article clearly demonstrates, big schools get most of the attention with a headline like this. Small schools with no sports program trudge along, pumping out very knowledgeable grads, who get funny looks when they mention their school name in a job interview.
Sad, indeed.
Turns out, you have to make a wire transfer to their bank account in order to get one. When's the last time you went to your bank for a wire transfer (note: there are extra fees involved).
Also, shipping to the US is US$50. So raise the minimum price to US$500.
If we're truly interested in providing artists with compensation for the music we "share," we should pay them directly.
If every time we download a song, we throw a check in the mail, addressed to the artist directly (or one of the members in the case of groups), how would it be possible for the record companies to interfere? Put some bogus comment in the "For" line of your check and the record company would have no recourse...right (IANAL)?
The only thing that would be needed is for someone to create a list of where to mail the checks for different artists. Maybe a fan club or something.
Has this been thought of before?
They're very convenient when the professor decides to utilize them. In a digital design class I'm taking now, where we program in assembly, it's nice for us and for the professor to be able to display and scroll through sample code.
There's a regular white board right next to the SmartBoard, so the professor can write as he pleases while leaving the SmartBoard display alone.
The only bad thing about them is the "overwriting" of the image with the special markers. Anything written is very, very low resolution. About the only thing our professor uses that feature for is to cross out a section of code on the screen.
1. Money. China, if it creates new stem cell lines, would be eyed by major research companies and the pharmaceutical industry as holding the potential for millions of dollars in revenue.
2. No opposition. In a country where an individual and the individual's family are severely punished for having more than one child, and the government jails its people for religious expression, who is going to oppose this. In China, the government can effectively say "Throw all inhibitions to the wind. No one will oppose us."
That being said, though, China is headed in the wrong direction. Embryonic stem cell research, while showing "potential," has produced no results.
In fact, Chinese medical officials, in another case of jumping the gun, injected stem cells into a suffering Parkinson's patient. The results were horrific. Because we don't yet know how to control stem cells, they grew wildly and developed into one of the most primitive and terrifying cancers, a "teratoma." When finally autopsied -- the cure killed the poor soul -- they found at the brain site of the injection a tumor full of hair, bone and skin.
On the other hand, research conducted in the US has shown much more promise as a result of adult stem cells .
Adult stem cells were shown to be able to turn into every single tissue in the body. This would eliminate the need for therapeutic cloning and ESCR, as adult stem cells could be taken from the afflicted person and turned into needed tissues without concern for rejection.