jbrenner's Partial History of Florida Tech

Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 1 month ago to Education
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Gulchers will like slides 2, 32, 168, and 169 of the link below.

The link is way to big to attach. Turn the volume on your computer to its highest setting when running the slide show at

http://my.fit.edu/~jbrenner/bashur/3d...
name = fltech password = brenner

A quasi table of contents is at
http://my.fit.edu/~jbrenner/bashur/3d...
name = fltech password = brenner

I intend

1) to send this to my > 3000 past students to show how Florida Tech has improved over the last 20 years;

2) to help Florida Tech recruiting at both the grad and undergrad levels;

3) to get support for some of our new research initiatives;

4) to have both Florida Tech's Development Office and our administrators use this to attract people interested in exchanging their value for our value;

5) to use Nanoflorida 2018 as a catalyst to make some improvements here at FIT;

6) to show how seemingly disparate research and teaching goals do actually have common themes (slide 171);

7) to use this to help catapult Florida Tech up in the national rankings;

8) to break this up into a set of much smaller YouTube videos to drive Internet traffic to FIT and to our department in particular;

9) to start a course incorporating more building and testing into the chemical engineering (ChE) and biomedical engineering (BME) curricula via a two credit elective wearable sensors course described on slides 161-166; and

10) to start an Honors Program at Florida Tech, as described on slide 167, including the wearable sensors course in item 9.


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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The audio recorded extremely softly. I didn't worry about that initially because I am going to re-record it in a sound studio soon.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Life is wonderful in east central Florida. We look forward to your arrival, but want you to prosper in the meantime.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I installed Libreoffice and it loads the file, but I don't know how to make it play with audio. I can page through the presentation, but no sound. Are you trying to teach me to think? ;^)
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 7 years, 1 month ago
    Hello jbrenner,

    Congratulations on a very impressive presentation.
    I hope it proves fruitful.

    I only had time to give it a quick once over, but hope to find time soon to give it its due.

    If my plans work out I may be going into semi-retirement in your neck of the woods before too long (a year or two perhaps). If work becomes more prosperous than anticipated I may stick around here a bit longer. Things have been looking up lately.

    I would be most pleased to look you up. :)

    Hope all is well with you and yours.
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    One of our best graduates is from that high school. She is the only student we have had who got all three degrees from my department.

    Both of my kids went through the Cambridge Program in middle school, but not high school.

    I look forward to meeting your granddaughter.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 7 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    freedomforall, I had no problem viewing the slideshow using "Libre Office" on an iMac and the Apple native "Keynote" worked as well. Libre Office is available free for Mac, Windows, or Linux systems. I did notice a few slides, out of the 172, where an image slightly ran over the text or where some text was on top of other text. I have no way of knowing if these anomalies were in the original slides or were a result of the translation from ppt. Audio worked out well.
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  • Posted by Lucky 7 years, 1 month ago
    jbrenner-
    I believe your message is good so wish you god speed and success for this project.
    (Non-Objectivist wording deliberate to provoke the dogmatic.)

    Pardon if necessary- for the diversion, and I have not watched or gone to the sites before commenting. As for turning up the sound, I recommend loud sound when watching this vid. It is in Arabic with English sub-titles.

    https://www.memri.org/tv/arab-america...
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  • Posted by coaldigger 7 years, 1 month ago
    Jim, I am sharing this with my granddaughter that I have mentioned previously. She is currently a sophomore at North Fort Myers High School and is in the Cambridge program. She was recently offered a chance to enter a program at Florida Southwestern State for her Jr and Sr years of HS which would mean she would graduate and enter college as a Jr. She didn't want to exit the Cambridge program so they worked it out so she can do both. I have no idea what she wants to be but I expect it will be something entirely of her own choosing. She is an Ayn Rand enthusiast and came in second in the Sophomore essay contest on Anthem. She will write on The Fountainhead this year and Atlas Shrugged next. That may not work because she has already jumped the gun on Atlas and Dagny is her role model.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 1 month ago
    JB, please let me know when it's in a format that doesn't require installing a lot of MSFT programs I won't use. Office stopped being useful when MSFT changed to "ribbon" rubbish interface. Office 2003 still works although I never use ppt, I just do presentations with a video editor instead. Much easier for me to use a storyboard interface.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago
    As part of the preparation of this massive PowerPoint document, I realized that Roald Dahl got his idea for Willy Wonka's musical lock in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from ... Atlas Shrugged. A professor I took a class from named Mark Burns at The University of Michigan uses music to actuate valves in lab-on-a-chip devices. I have recently moved toward organ-on-a-chip devices in my research.
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