Network Connection and Energy Radiation through Grassroots Master Teacher Studios

Cognitive Master Teacher

The “Cognitive Master Teacher” is a result of discussions with teachers, members of educational institutions, government bodies and other thought leaders in the United States who have helped us shape its the requirements. It is conceived as a cloud-based and mobile-accessible personal agent that is readily available for teachers to use at anytime and assist them with various issues related to d...

Environmental sustainability enhancement of a petroleum refinery through heat exchanger network retrofitting and renewable energy

This paper presents a case study on the enhancement of environmental sustainability in a petroleum refining process based on an exergetic diagnostic approach. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) pinpointed crude oil production and electricity generating systems as the main sources of environmental unsustainability. The existing hot utility demand of the process is 78.4 MW with a temperature differe...

Vivien Thomas: master craftsman, gifted teacher, and unsung hero.

More Than Wires, Pipes and Ducts: Some Lessons from Grassroots Networked Communities and Master-Planned Neighbourhoods

Community informatics research has indicated that the provision of technical connectivity in local neighbourhoods alone does not ensure community interaction. Externally initiated projects applied to communities by government or commercial bodies have encountered difficulties where the project’s goals do not correspond to the host community’s purposes. Differing expectations can lead to disillu...

The Teacher Scientist Network

Children often think that classroom science is not ‘real’ science. They also carry a poor image of ‘real’ science and scientists. Ask a group of children to draw or describe a scientist and — apart from portraying the scientist as a middle-aged male, with glasses and wild hair — they nearly always associate him with eccentricity and absent-mindedness, madness even. Worse, the context will often...