Iowa Academy of Science: The New Bulletin, V7n1, Spring 2011

Inside This Issue: --Message from the Executive Director --123rd Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science --Candidates for Iowa Academy of Science President --Candidates for Iowa Academy of Science Board of Directors --Candidate for Iowa Science Teaching Section Vice Section Chair --Iowa Science Teaching Section Fall Conference --Iowa Academy of Science – Election 2011 --Welcome Corporate Members --IAS Corporate Memberships --2011 IAS Speaker Series at the Saylorville Visitor Center --IAS Welcomes Executive Assistant, Debbie Dean --Wanted: Saylorville Gift Shop Coordinator --Announcements, Events & Deadlineshttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/iasnews/1011/thumbnail.jp

School Leader Update, August 2004

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Educatio

Making culture count: rethinking measures of cultural vitality, wellbeing and citizenship

In May 2012 the Cultural Development Network and the University of Melbourne, Centre for Cultural Partnerships presented the Making Culture Count Conference with support from VicHealth and the University of Melbourne. This is the final report for the conference. The Making Culture Count Conference sought to answer the questions about how we measure our activities in a cultural context, how cultural indicators sat alongside economic, social and environmental measures support sustainable development, wellbeing, heritage and diversity; and what role cultural indicators played in globalisation and distinctiveness. It focussed on new trends in cultural measurement practice seeking to challenge existing ways of thinking, and explored the potential of cultural indicators on contemporary governance and public policy. &nbsp

Storm Drain Stenciling to Build Stormwater Awareness in NH’s Estuarine Communities

Storm drain stenciling is a community-based activity during which volunteers paint stenciled messages on the street next to stormwater grates indicating where the water entering those storm drains discharges. One of the biggest threats to water quality nationwide is stormwater runoff which enters storm drains and flows untreated to local water bodies. The purpose of this project is to educate stenciling volunteers, neighborhood residents and passers-by about the environmental connection between neighborhood streets and local waterbodies

Development of an Ada programming support environment database SEAD (Software Engineering and Ada Database) administration manual

Software Engineering and Ada Database (SEAD) was developed to provide an information resource to NASA and NASA contractors with respect to Ada-based resources and activities which are available or underway either in NASA or elsewhere in the worldwide Ada community. The sharing of such information will reduce duplication of effort while improving quality in the development of future software systems. SEAD data is organized into five major areas: information regarding education and training resources which are relevant to the life cycle of Ada-based software engineering projects such as those in the Space Station program; research publications relevant to NASA projects such as the Space Station Program and conferences relating to Ada technology; the latest progress reports on Ada projects completed or in progress both within NASA and throughout the free world; Ada compilers and other commercial products that support Ada software development; and reusable Ada components generated both within NASA and from elsewhere in the free world. This classified listing of reusable components shall include descriptions of tools, libraries, and other components of interest to NASA. Sources for the data include technical newletters and periodicals, conference proceedings, the Ada Information Clearinghouse, product vendors, and project sponsors and contractors

The Review - Fall 2002

In This Issue 3 - Message From the Dean 4 - Drs. Erdmann and Cooter Take the Lead 5 - Physical Therapy Class of 1992 Together Again 6 - Mary G. Schaal, New Nursing Department Chair 7 - Diagnostic Imaging Students Discover Presentation is Important 8 - Special Occasions Make Special News 9 - JAVA Keeps Admissions Brewing 10 - Your Alma Mater Needs Your Support 10 - Changing Spaces – Campus Housing Gets a Face Lift 11 - Federal Stafford Loan and Interest Rates At An All Time Low 11 - Barbara Schock Retires 12 - Alumni and Almost Alumni 13 - Alumni Update

A double-edged sword: Use of computer algebra systems in first-year Engineering Mathematics and Mechanics courses

Many secondary-level mathematics students have experience with graphical calculators from high school. For the purposes of this paper we define graphical calculators as those able to perform rudimentary symbolic manipulation and solve complicated equations requiring very modest user knowledge. The use of more advanced computer algebra systems e.g. Maple, Mathematica, Mathcad, Matlab/MuPad is becoming more prevalent in tertiary-level courses. This paper explores our students’ experience using one such system (MuPad) in first-year tertiary Engineering Mathematics and Mechanics courses. The effectiveness of graphical calculators and computer algebra systems in mathematical pedagogy has been investigated by a multitude of educational researchers (e.g. Ravaglia et al. 1998). Most of these studies found very small or no correlation between student use of graphical calculators or exposure to computer algebra systems with future achievement in mathematics courses (Buteau et al. 2010). In this paper we focus instead on students’ attitude towards a more advanced standalone computer algebra system (MuPad), and whether students’ inclination to use the system is indicative of their mathematical understanding. Paper describing some preliminary research into use of computer algebra systems for teaching engineering mathematics

Spartan Daily, November 25, 1975

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