Monthly Archives: October 2011

This week in class Tom Vales gave a presentation on alternative forms of energy. He brought in examples of and discussed the stirling engine, peltier device which is a thermoelectric converter and the Mendocino solar motor. I found him to … Continue reading →

This week in class we did a lab in which we used a program that Dr. Shatz had set up in labview. We used this program to record what happened when we lifted objects into the air. This data was … Continue reading →

Pandemic a Latin word meaning all people, it refers to a disease that has infected many people in several counties or on several continents. In recent history Smallpox, HIV, Tuberculosis, H1N1, and the Spanish flu have reached pandemic proportions. The … Continue reading →

This semester I am taking a seminar course on Sustainability Energy and Technology.  As part of the Technology portion of this class we have assembled Lego robots that we can program to do simple actions. This week we used these … Continue reading →