Prior knowledge is an essential key in any STEM course. Check out what my colleague, Dr. Kibler of UCF Civil, Enviro. and Construction Engineering, put together for a Fluid Mechanics course for Civ Engg. It is part of our 3 univ (University of Pittsburgh, UCF USF Research) NSF grant! priorknowledge.mathforcollege.com/fluid-mechanic… Engineering USF

When the trifecta of papers, grants, and PhD students is the only archaic metric for hiring, tenure, and promotion at research universities, this is bound to happen!

It is what and how much we are consuming, not the lack of exercise which is making us obese. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… But this should not be looked as dissing exercise because physical activity is so critical for mental health, mobility, sharp brain, bone and muscle health, etc.

Peer instruction leaves the vulnerable behind. Can we go back to direct instruction, not the show me 75 slides in 75 minutes kind. I wish people would read what DI is about. insidehighered.com/news/student-s… Zach Groshell Daniel Willingham Carl Hendrick

Hey Hillsborough County , please do not fall for corporate welfare again. If you have to, go for special property tax on residences above 400K. Then you will see the resistance from the wealthy who want to push sales tax increase on the poor. fox13news.com/news/tampa-bay…

Kat Allen, a PhD student in Tufts Department of Mechanical Engineering & Human-Robot Interaction, and Mavis Murdoch, a PhD student in Tufts CS, presented a position paper at the RESPECT 2025 conference this week. The paper title \is available to read online: loom.ly/IcdMp5Q

Men are being left behind. This has been an issue for a while. Why don’t we take preventive measures to let everyone have a chance to flourish.

Time to call facility fees for regular doctor visits to be a scam and illegal. Is anyone listening. Florida Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services Elizabeth Warren FTC HHS

Our latest addition to prior knowledge resources. Today we have the resources for a Linear Circuits and Systems course priorknowledge.mathforcollege.com/linear-circuit… developed by my colleague Prof Dallal of Swanson School of Engineering. All resources for four other courses are at priorknowledge.mathforcollege.com

Gwyneth Paltrow appears in bizarre Astronomer video as ‘spokesperson’ after CEO caught in Coldplay kiss cam scandal. Yes, because she knows all about #ConsciousUncoupling the-independent.com/life-style/gwy…

Asked Microsoft Copilot to combine 20 PPTs. Asks me to download from a link and I get the page is not found error. Microsoft you can do better with a $500 price point!

As long as the movie Titanic, you can learn Micromechanics of Composite Materials. youtu.be/Ama3fk0XVAk #composites #micromechanics

As u make your Fall syllabus, please give more than 1 midterm in regular lecture class. A 40% weight midterm exam can make or break S's grade. No time to give 3 midterms. Just get rid of inclass exam review session and postexam solution session. Do them online. Beth McMurtrie

Cambridge Dic new words “Skibidi” “cool” or “bad” or be used with no real meaning as a joke. “tradwife,” refers to a married mother who cooks, cleans and posts on social media "delulu,” for delusional “believing things that are not real or true, usually because you choose to.”

I think they should bring a subscription model (rent-a-center) to every non-edible item like TVs, computers, phones, houses, cars, audio systems, game consoles, household appliances, etc, that surely will keep the whole family enslaved for generations. #subscriptionModel

Oh! Oh! Oh! #ozempic Novo Nordisk - where art thou #bodyPositivity influencers and celebrities. Let not this minority segment that makes money out of every trend dictate our health choices! Do what is best for you! usatoday.com/story/life/hea…

What has happened to children’s attention span? The problem may not be that they can’t pay attention, but rather that they don’t want to. I review the data here: educationnext.org/pay-attention-…

Princeton joins many elite Univs requiring standardized tests for admission. forbes.com/sites/michaelt… Grades have become super inflated since COVID. So the correlation of college GPA has suffered. About .6 with tests, .4 with GPA and .7 combined.

Took rides in Waymo in SF. We felt completely safe in it as SF traffic is slow. It did get stuck once when another Waymo touched a caution flag on a big flat truck. It didn't know what to do—we were with the CS for 30 mins, figuring it out. They gave us a few free rides.

One of my book recommendations on teaching and learning was recently highlighted in ASEE Conferences Prism magazine. Even after 25 yrs of continuously funded research in engg edu, I found the book rich with ideas for enhancing teaching effectiveness. Paul A. Kirschner Carl Hendrick