“I feel like the whole world now has to experience what we’ve been experiencing every day – figuring...
Teaching with Cancer…
Note: Before you get all righteous and up in arms about Olin making me go back to teaching...
It’s Good to Be Back
Today was sort of the unofficial first day of the semester. Why unofficial? Well, it was the first...
Bicycle Framebuilding: Jig Design
Update (08/06/2109): Engineering Drawings! Wow – someone has actually read this post and requested drawings! This seems only...
Stories from taking Lyft five days a week
It’s the law. Something I was unaware of before this whole ordeal began is the fact that Massachusetts...
It’s been two weeks…
Well, I guess it’s now officially been two whole weeks since my 30th (and final) radiation therapy treatment....
Radiation Day 20 – A Keto Diet Brain Dump
Today’s beam room music rundown: Nothing, nada, zilch I have yet another data point correlating the presence of...
Graduations, Community, and Connectedness
Yesterday was Olin’s graduation. Despite a dreary, and rainy start (thanks, New England “spring”!), by the time the...
Radiation Day 10 – The sound of silence
Well, week 2 of radiation therapy is officially in the books, but there was no music in the...
The role of “craftsmanship” in engineering education
For a while now, I’ve been thinking a lot about craft as it relates to engineering education. “What...
Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video – Part II
In Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video Part I, I walked through setting up a Raspberry Pi with a camera and...
Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video – Part I
A major theme of the library reinvention project is documentation. Documentation can serve many critical purposes including storytelling,...
Pivots: A Scrum pattern for design projects
I'm calling the pattern "Pivots," but it's based on an existing pattern called the "Interrupt Pattern" devised by Jeff...
Design Thinking + Scrum = ?
At Olin, design (and design thinking) is one lens through which we view engineering. If you'll allow me...
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