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Teaching English to Engineers: May 2015
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Teaching English to Engineers. Sunday, May 24, 2015. Photo from International-Education-Biometrics.net. In my last post I shared an article about a smartphone that uses biometrics - iris-scanning - instead of a password. The other type of biometric device is fingerprint-scanners, which also claim to be safer than passwords. But how soon can we expect to stop using passwords? And are there any safety problems with biometric devices as well? Our expert panel argue the case for and against biometrics".
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Teaching English to Engineers: Semi-autonomous motorcar
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Teaching English to Engineers. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Sam Schmidt is a former Indy racecar driver who was in a driving accident in 2000 and since then he has been a quadriplegic. Arrow Electronics approached him in 2013 to participate in their project of designing a car that he would be able to drive. The project, known as the SAM Project (Semi-Autonomous Motorcar), has developed to the point where Schmidt has driven a number of times. The project website: http:/ www.arrowsamcar.com/. DARPA Robotics Cha...
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Teaching English to Engineers: April 2015
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Teaching English to Engineers. Monday, April 27, 2015. Website dedicated to DIY and DIWO. A student of mine recently told me that he first became interested in making his own robotic models because of Make. Magazine. Now he is in a bachelor program for mechatronics/robotics engineering. This description certainly fits my students, and probably all kinds of engineering students. The technology areas also focus on all kinds of engineering fields. Website and magazine: http:/ makezine.com/. Projects are rat...
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Teaching English to Engineers: February 2015
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Teaching English to Engineers. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Newspaper articles made simpler. The website "The Times in Plain English" has articles from the New York Times. That have been rewritten in simpler language and format than the original articles. This is very useful for students who are not very advanced in reading skills, and it can also be useful for showing students the differences in writing for different audiences. The website: http:/ www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/. Of course, this website i...
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Teaching English to Engineers: July 2015
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Teaching English to Engineers. Saturday, July 25, 2015. New Horizons achieves its goal. Heart of Pluto" picture from New Horizons website. In my posts of January 25, 2015 ( New Horizons soon to reach Pluto. And February 2, 2015 ( The technology of New Horizons. I wrote about the NASA flyby mission to Pluto that was launched on January 16, 2006. The flyby was closest on July 15, 2015. New Horizons website: http:/ pluto.jhuapl.edu/. One section I will focus on, however, is the Pluto in a Minute. The payloa...
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Teaching English to Engineers: Predicting businesses that use driverless cars
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Teaching English to Engineers. Monday, August 10, 2015. Predicting businesses that use driverless cars. In my post of July 18 - Factor magazine website. I wrote about a website that has many useful articles relating to different topics of engineering. The articles are long enough for useful language work, but not so long that they're difficult for students. They are written in a range of registers, which can be useful for raising students' awareness of the range of formality in English. Personalized driv...
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Teaching English to Engineers: DARPA Robotics Challenge winner
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Teaching English to Engineers. Monday, June 22, 2015. DARPA Robotics Challenge winner. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) website: http:/ www.theroboticschallenge.org/. The 8 tasks were chosen as being relevant to disaster response:. Drive a vehicle (same vehicle type as in Trials). Open door and travel through opening. Open valve (similar to one of 3 valves in Trials). Use a cutting tool to cut a hole in a wall (similar to one of the two tools and the wall in Trials). The top finalists are:. The winner ...
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Teaching English to Engineers: Geeky Gadgets website
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Teaching English to Engineers. Tuesday, June 9, 2015. It's always useful to find websites that have texts, visuals, videos and other information that can be used as classroom material. One site I have found is called Geeky Gadgets. Which - as the name indicates - focuses on a wide variety of innovations and devices in different fields of technology. Link to the website: http:/ www.geeky-gadgets.com/. The site is divided into 7 sections:. Gives reviews and opinions of different devices, while Technology.
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Teaching English to Engineers: August 2015
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Teaching English to Engineers. Saturday, August 29, 2015. More toys to promote S.T.E.M. In my blog post of 9 October 2014 I wrote about GoldieBlox - a construction toy specifically designed for girls to promote their interest in S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). There are two recent articles that look at this development:. The toys that could help close Silicon Valley's gender gap. From CNBC website) and How to teach computer science in nursery school; No assembler required. The a...
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Teaching English to Engineers: Transparent solar cell
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Teaching English to Engineers. Saturday, July 11, 2015. Image from Michigan State University. Ubiquitous Energy is a technology company developing transparent photovoltaics. These devices would eliminate the limitations of the battery life of mobile devices, and would provide "smart" glass for buildings. The "first truly transparent solar technology" is described on the company's website:. Company website: http:/ ubiquitous.energy/. Choosing the "Learn more" option brings you to the Technology. There see...
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