2011

an archive of posts from this year

Dec 19, 2011 Hire engineers and teach them to program? Or the other way around?
Dec 16, 2011 This has at times hurt my career
Dec 15, 2011 Should you drop my class?
Dec 14, 2011 How to improve font rendering on Windows
Dec 14, 2011 Grad students always use the most complicated model
Dec 13, 2011 On the length of books
Dec 12, 2011 Teaching computational thinking
Dec 07, 2011 Finding papers that use---but never identify---a specific software platform
Dec 05, 2011 Graduate School Now Or Later
Nov 29, 2011 Advice for new university instructors
Nov 25, 2011 Don't waste your slot
Nov 21, 2011 Book review: Visualize This
Nov 17, 2011 How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX
Nov 08, 2011 Numerical models and crystal balls
Nov 04, 2011 Is engineering education too hard?
Oct 28, 2011 Make links in LaTeX documents print in black and white
Oct 27, 2011 Typographers care more than you
Oct 26, 2011 How to end a seminar or conference talk
Oct 24, 2011 Is The 9 5 Phd A Myth
Oct 13, 2011 How to generate ternary plots in Matplotlib
Oct 05, 2011 Doing science in the open---thoughts from Michael Nielsen
Sep 27, 2011 Know your tools better, test ideas faster
Sep 21, 2011 The sad state of computer science education for engineers
Sep 20, 2011 Survival guide for your first year of graduate school
Sep 19, 2011 iOS apps for LaTeX aficionados
Aug 30, 2011 Liberating and future-proofing your research data
Aug 24, 2011 How to predict an earthquake
Aug 24, 2011 How to make Windows more Mac-like (for frequent switchers)
Aug 23, 2011 Does teaching make grad students better researchers?
Jul 26, 2011 Why I really love LaTeX (and you should too)
Jul 20, 2011 A few thoughts on O'Reilly Media
Jul 18, 2011 Embedding real-time feedback loops in exams
Jul 07, 2011 Speed up plot rendering in Python/Matplotlib
Jun 22, 2011 Software applications so transparent they disappear
Jun 20, 2011 Does the Kindle provide an immersive reading experience?
Jun 15, 2011 Standing up to fellow (graduate) students who cheat
Jun 13, 2011 Cheating in engineering classes
Jun 10, 2011 Is the Internet making us anti-intellectual?
Jun 09, 2011 How much can I expect to accomplish in a week?
May 24, 2011 Giving a conference talk John Wheeler style
May 23, 2011 Teaching and notetaking in technicolor
May 20, 2011 Time spent on basic ideas is never wasted
May 13, 2011 How to build a great academic website
May 04, 2011 Why build a website to archive your research?
Mar 04, 2011 How to learn a new finite element analysis code
Mar 03, 2011 What do structural engineers do?
Mar 01, 2011 Are you actually good at what you do?
Feb 25, 2011 Introduction to Abaqus FEA (tutorial)
Feb 18, 2011 Putting the thesis into proper perspective
Feb 03, 2011 Do you need ideal conditions to do great work?
Feb 02, 2011 Why trust your instincts when you discover new tools?
Jan 20, 2011 Engineers and "exact" calculations
Jan 19, 2011 Why we have to produce correct practical design guidelines
Jan 07, 2011 Before you skip my class
Jan 04, 2011 Giving technical talks to a target audience