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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

In the meeting of my Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab class for the eighth week of the first term, we had the first part of the third experiment again, which was resistors in series. This time I reminded them the difference between the quantities they had to measure and the ones they had to compute, and that I would personally double check the total resistance, current and voltage they are to put in their tables with respect to how it appears on the meters.

That certainly diminished the number of “zero percentage difference” results in their data sheet due to comparing computation with computation.

Now in retrospect, because of the class suspension (and the consequent make up sessions that need to be scheduled for it – sixteen and a half hours total), I may be rethinking having to utilize such a short experiment in the future. There’s also the possibility of letting the students just start with the next experiment even before the three-hour period is finished, and just compile their “free days” at the end of the term when all seven experiments are finished.

In the meeting of my second Engineering Drawing and Design class for that week, they finished their exercises on reproducing bar and pie charts in the two software programs that we have been using the past weeks.

This class also had the disadvantage of having to think up new surveys that the previous class hadn’t come up with already so it took more time.

And the bar graph I had them make was the trajectory of a projectile, from the time it leaves the ground to the time it returns to the ground.

For the first meeting of my Engineering Materials Science section for the ninth week of classes, I didn’t have a lecture. During the previous weekday the Executive Vice President had shown me several new materials that he suggested for use in Innovation Week, as well as leftovers from when the public school scholars had their own version of the projects. These I assigned to the engineering juniors to fix up now, since none of them passed any projects for the exhibit.

Session 1213 had no project. Class dismissed.