Nothing momentous to report, just a snapshot of my students working in the lab this afternoon. No broken glassware, no spill, no disasters (that I’m aware of, anyway.) Hopefully the results won’t be too wacky either! The water they are analyzing for total coliforms and fecal coliforms comes from a site near the mouth of [...]
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Wet Lab
Posted in teaching, tagged engineering, Personal, science, teaching, water quality on 9 February, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching and Learning
Posted in local, teaching, tagged engineering, humboldt, teaching, water quality, weather on 31 January, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m teaching two classes this semester: Environmental Impact Assessment, primarily for seniors; and Water Quality and Environmental Health, for second- and third-year students. The water quality class is split up into two groups for lab purposes. We took advantage of the unseasonably beautiful weather this past week to go do some field work along Jolly [...]
Great Expectations…
Posted in science, teaching, tagged engineering, excellence, mathematics, science, teaching on 26 January, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sigh. Although my students do the best they can with the background they have, I continue to be stunned at the low requirements of the American education system. A sizable portion of college and university classes here are basically remedial high school. I’m getting lots of people in their second or third year in a [...]
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