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Blowing the Hatch
Something caught my attention. I watched The Right Stuff last night and was looking up something about Gus Grissom. Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 flight has been the subject of great controversy over how the hatch was blown after splashdown. The hatch blow resulted in a loss of the vehicle, though
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Cache of Old Syllabi
I recently happened upon a cache of old syllabi for my math courses going to back to the fall of 2014. As these syllabi are centrally developed (more or less) by the course chairs, they generally reflect the state of the course at UMGC/UMUC during each semester. Included here are
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Effective today, I received a promotion at the University of Maryland Global Campus, which until yesterday, is what we called “University of Maryland University College.” I’ve been teaching for 9 years at UMGC, and was promoted to Adjunct Assistant Professor in 2015. In case you want to know what this
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I Got a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Science!
Apparently, these things come as PDFs now! Anyway, for the last couple of years, I’ve taken a few classes here and there at the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering and completed the master of science program in environmental engineering and science. Since I finished the doctoral program at UMBC writing
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Understanding Radioactive Exposure
Like a lot of people, I’ve been watching the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl: In fact, I subscribed to HBO for this, rather than Game of Thrones, which I still have not seen. Anyway, the miniseries is remarkable and while we know it took some liberties with reality in order to facilitate
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How Data Science Happens
I have a chapter in our planned book, Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research. In this book, co-edited with Prof. Natalie Scala, our authors explore the fundamentals of operations research in a military context. From our call for chapters: Operations research (OR) is a core discipline in military and
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Social Security Policysplainer
It is apparently time for another policysplainer. The New York Times, among others, covered the report that Social Security will start running a deficit in the next decade and not long after, be insolvent. This really should not be a surprise. The Congressional Budget Office pointed this out in 2016,
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