X Bubbler: Gates into engineering :: on how best to train engineers

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Gates into engineering :: on how best to train engineers

Essay 1: Kindly provided by Zeno Gaburro
Essay 2: Kindly provided by t - that's me

Both are from early 2016 and address questions posed as part of the hiring process at a cool new university in Africa. Enjoy and critique.

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Fractus Learning

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SIAM Careers

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Google Research Blog

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Teen - The Huffington Post

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TienPhong :: Education :: News

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LinkedIn Engineering

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Nick Higham

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notes on Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin

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Caltech Letters

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Free Technology for Teachers

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opencalculus

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Running a Math Club: My Experiences

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I Speak Math

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On Teaching and Learning Mathematics

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C. K. Raju's Blog

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The Earth Story

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The Center of Math Blog

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The Anticareerist

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inclusion/exclusion

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Beyond Reviews: Inside MathSciNet

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AMS Grad Blog

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4 years ago
nature.com blogs

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4 years ago
Capital Currents

Hiatus - Dear readers, I took this position as the Director of Government Relations in January of 2017 and my first blog posted shortly thereafter. I love researchi...
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e-Mentoring Network

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Indigenus

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Caltech student blog

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dy/dan

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Education – The Nation Nigeria

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Science Editors' Choice

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Traveling Thru History

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PhD + epsilon

TMI - Note: This is only one instance of students sharing I intend to discuss. In particular, coming up in future months are “mandatory reporting” instances, whi...
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Aerospace Engineering Blog

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PhD Talk

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South African Author and Illustrator Trevor Romain to Keynote ACM SIGGRAPH Diversity and Inclusion Summit at SIGGRAPH 2020 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 August 2020 CHICAGO — As the SIGGRAPH 2020 North America conference goes to a virtual format starting on 17 August, 2020, the 3r...
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Math and Multimedia

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Cosmos Magazine

Early disc galaxy puts theories in a spin - It’s huge and distant, so how did it form?
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SpringerOpen blog

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interdisciplinary on reddit

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Authentic Inquiry Maths

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BorschtWithAnna

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Khan Academy

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The Accidental Mathematician

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ScienceBusiness.net

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Homeschool Math Blog

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travelthroughhistory

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Games and Learning

New GamesandLearning.co Marks Evolution of GBL Work - The National Science Foundation has awarded GamesandLearning, Inc. one of its America’s Seed Fund grants to develop and test a new platform for identifying...
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Book Ends

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scienceofus

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Book Review: Building a Foundation In Environmental Citizen Science - Dickinson, Janis L. & Bonney, Rick. (eds). Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research. Cornell University Press, 2012. 279 pages. Pape...
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ThinkThankThunk

Dear Iowa BIG Students: 2019 - This is an open letter to current, former, and future Iowa BIG students. Sometimes you just need to make your position known. For someone who works at a sc...
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The polymath blog - Collaborative advanced maths

Ten Years of Polymath - Ten years ago on January 27, 2009, Polymath1 was proposed by Tim Gowers and was launched on February 1, 2009. The first project was successful and it foll...
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Change Over Time

Home Depot STEM Activities - In December, we bought our first house! It's a cozy ranch style home with a nice-sized backyard. We STILL haven't unpacked all of the boxes. We have a cou...
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AIMS Center for Math and Science Education

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f(t)

Last Post for 250 Miles - Hi everybody, I have reached the end of my rope with Blogger, and have moved all the contents of this blog to a shiny new location. Any new posts after tod...
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Math Teacher Mambo

Calculus Extras... - One of the fun things about learning calculus in high school is that as a student you get to refresh your memory and pull from your memory and create sweat...
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Harvard College Student Blogs

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Renaissance Headquarters

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Education-Related efforts at Google

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Next Einstein Forum

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Edutopia

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History of Science and Mathematics :: Stack Exchange

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8 years ago
Middle School Math Rules!

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Math Game Time

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Visual Insight

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Mr Reddy Maths Blog

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Cambridge University Press

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