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Cache of Old Syllabi

I recently happened upon a cache of old syllabi for my math courses going to back to the fall of 2014. As these syllabi are centrally developed (more or less) by the course chairs, they generally reflect the state of the course at UMGC/UMUC during each semester. Included here are 15 new syllabi including for courses that I have not posted before:

MATH 108 Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry

This Post Means Nothing of Consequence

Effective today, I received a promotion at the University of Maryland Global Campus, which until yesterday, is what we called “University of Maryland University College.” I’ve been teaching for 9 years at UMGC, and was promoted to Adjunct Assistant Professor in 2015. In case you want to know what this means, I think this comic summarizes it nicely.

http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1927

I Got a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Science!

Apparently, these things come as PDFs now!

Anyway, for the last couple of years I’ve taken a few classes here and there at the [Johns Hopkins School of Engineering]() and completed the master of science program in environmental engineering and science. Since I finished the doctoral program at UMBC writing ultimately about environmental policy, I found it helpful to have a stronger…

Like a lot of people, I’ve been watching the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl:

https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl

In fact, I subscribed to HBO for this, rather than Game of Thrones, which I still have not seen. Anyway, the miniseries is remarkable and while we know it took some liberties with reality in order to facilitate the story, those liberties have generally held to the spirit of the story. For…

How Data Science Happens

I have a chapter in our planned book, Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research. In this book, co-edited with Prof. Natalie Scala, our authors explore the fundamentals of operations research in a military context. From our call for chapters:

Operations research (OR) is a core discipline in military and defense management. Coming to the forefront initially during World War II, OR…

Today, Chase and I went to a chess tournament hosted at Baltimore Western High School. What we encountered was tragic, and I post without further comment, a photoessay of the two rooms we were in.