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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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Fractus Learning

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Mathematics Learning

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SIAM Careers

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Google Research Blog

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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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Al-Fanar Media

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C. K. Raju's Blog

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Learning with 'e's

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The Earth Story

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The Center of Math Blog

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inclusion/exclusion

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AMS Grad Blog

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3 years ago
nature.com blogs

Interactions: Ghina M. Halabi - Originally posted on - blogs by NPG staff Ghina M. Halabi is an astrophysicist and social entrepreneur, whose work lies at the intersection of science, en...
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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

10 Most Instagrammable Sites in Cambodia - Cambodia is full of amazing and beautiful sites. If you're looking for places to wow your followers, check out the most Instagrammable sites in Cambodia....
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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

Editorial: Diagnostic and Proof Load Tests on Bridges - I recenlty published an editorial for the jounal Frontiers in the Built Environment: Bridge Engineering on the topic "Diagnostic and Proof Load Tests on ...
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edX Blog

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Udemy Blog

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Math = Love

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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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Krissy Venosdale

Mini You Animation with Keynote - Put a little personal touch on your tutorial videos or just surprise students with a massive bobble-head version of yourself on their screens. Resources: A...
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AMS News +

Just Equations Blog: A Tour -
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GuardianTeach

Plans to reopen English primary schools before summer in disarray theguardian.com/education/2020… - Plans to reopen English primary schools before summer in disarray theguardian.com/education/2020…
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Mother Nature Network

Forest products help power local economies - Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs help weather tough times.
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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

ICMNS 2020 – Digital (6th-7th of July 2020) - This year International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience will be digital! It will take place 6th-7th of July 2020 For detailed information and reg...
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interdisciplinary on reddit

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Google Student Blog

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Authentic Inquiry Maths

Start the Year with an Attitude Survey - Here in my part of Australia it is the end of Week 1, Term 1. Being a good teacher, I am always keen to get to know my new class quickly and to find out a...
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BorschtWithAnna

Proof in a non-Geometry classroom - A beef that I have long had with the standard math curriculum is that for many students who don't take college math courses, proof is a weird one-off that ...
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Khan Academy

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The Accidental Mathematician

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ScienceBusiness.net

Harnessing digital technologies to improve healthcare in Norway - Harnessing digital technologies to improve healthcare in Norway Since November 2016, Science|Business and its institutional members have been organising c...
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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

What Is Autophagy? - Right when I’d gotten used to intermittent fasting…
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CitizenSci

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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Edutopia

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Middle School Math Rules!

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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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