Enlightenment strikes! Broadening graduate school training through field campaign participation

Getting through graduate school

‘In my experience, the two main things that make graduate school hard are the unstructured nature of the process, and the lack of information about what you should spend your time on,’ writes Marie desJardins in the pragmatic How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors. She’s right. Graduate students, for the most part, don’t get enough good advice, about how to succeed...

Broadening Participation: The Why and the How

W e are honored to have been invited to address the “how” of broadening participation in computing by describing our experiences at a large, research-intensive public university. We begin, though, by addressing the “why,” because having the right motivation is of critical importance. As eminent computer scientist Bill Wulf stated nearly 15 years ago, when he was president of the National Academ...

[Broadening the participation and strengthening the unity].

Electromagnetic Field Due to Lightning Strikes to Mountainous Ground

The produced electric and magnetic fields due to lightning strikes to mountainous ground are determined in this paper. For the sake of simplicity a cone-shaped ground with finite conductivity is assumed to represent a natural nonflat ground. By this assumption, we deal with an axillary symmetrical structure so we use the cylindrical 2D-FDTD to save the simulation memory and time, dramatically. ...

Participation, Metaphysics, and Enlightenment: Reflections on Ken Wilber’s Recent Work

This paper discusses a number of key issues raised in the recent dialogue on the work of Ken Wilber between John Rowan and Michael Daniels, mediated by David Fontana and chaired by Malcolm Walley (Rowan, Daniels, Fontana, & Walley, 2009). First, it responds to Rowan’s defense of Wilber’s work in the wake of the participatory critique. Second, it addresses the question of the cultural versus uni...