2.A38 web presence

• syllabus
• 24-7 schedule blank
• fall semester schedule blank

table of student vlogs

reading

Learning math and science:

• Mathematical Problem Solving, Schoenfeld
• Arguing to Learn in Science, Osborne
• Learning to read, reading to learn, Hines et.al.

Mechanical engineering readings:

• camming devices (8.01, successive models)
• robo clam (analysis & design)
• petrosky on pencil points (history, successive models
• timoshenko on history of materials (models, 3.091)
• moore on making things flat, part I
• moore on making things flat, part II

Electrical Engineering Readings:

• Electronic Cricuits, overview and op amps
• Jim Williams, Should Ohm's Law Be Repealed?
• Jim Williams, The Zoo Circuit

Energy in your major

• Japan & deflation
• secular cooling of the earth lord kelvin (on thermo & diff-eqs)
• garrett hardin tragedy of the commons
• american heritage article on Gillette
• NYTimes/Freidman op-ed on China's "moon shots"
  
  
• literature searching in MIT's libraries

• Turner & Fauconnier I
• Turner & Fauconnier II
• Turner & Fauconnier III
• J. Rieder on non-sense and Lear's limericks
• Lear's Book of Nonsense

Assorted links.

don't be such a scientist

library

Links to events/seminar/lecture series for assorted departments:

• chemE
  
• civil events
  
• research lab of electronics
  
• physics colloquia
  
• biology
  
• astrophysics
  
• math (calander), math (seminars listing)
  
• brain & cog

Student driven reading selections:

• Z: Applied Mathematics
• M: Bio Fuels