President’s Page: ISCP’s Educational Goals

Multi-society Presidents' page: The value of membership in your sub-specialty society.

PicPot: a small satellite with educational goals

PicPot is a small satellite designed and built at Politecnico di Torino, as a cooperation between the Electronics and the Aerospace Departments. The goal of the project is mainly didactic: a real satellite is a good example of complex system, with specific constraints and requirements. Such a project makes possible to have students, in the final graduation work, going through the complete desig...

Integrating Educational Research and Practice: Reconceptualizing Goals

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...