Derivatives Rule in Lawrence High MST

Posted on: 2013-02-26 22:37:18 by admin

      Today I was in Lawrence High School, talking to the Calculus class in the Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) High School on derivatives of functions and why they should be excited about this concept.  During the conversation with the class at the beginning, they made it clear to me that they knew all the rules (power rule, product rule, chain rule etc.). This is what the textbook provides in the first fifty or more pages in the chapter on introduction to derivatives. But why do we need to differentiate functions and where do these rules come from they asked. So we talked about the product rule and how it can be proved. Proving a res...

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Nano particle behavior in Viscous fluid

Posted on: 2011-12-27 06:07:01 by tnabat

      Medical field have been able to advance at a very rapid pace, from advance surgeries to developing medicine to cure many diseases. However there is still many diseases which has been discovered yet we can’t find a cure, for example Cancer, HIV exedra. Due to complicity of these viruses we are still going to batle which have not have not moved forward in a right pat for these pased years. For example if we examine today treatment for cancer we will see there are only a certain percentage of cures that a medical doctor is able to achieve with such treatment “chemotherapy”, or even surgery or other kind of medical treatment. The reason behind...

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American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) North East Conference

Posted on: 2013-05-13 18:00:58 by pratikgandhi

      Three days after the UMass Lowell Symposium, on 27-28th April, there was American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) North East conference. Students from other colleges around the north east region came to presents their research papers and posters. There were many workshops going on, however, those workshops were held at the same time as poster session, so we couldn’t be able to attend many of them. However, Anthony and Nick went to NSF Performamatics Workshop on Interdisciplinary Teaching, more information can be found on Nick’s blog . However, we had good time at the pos...

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MATLAB experience at High School

Posted on: 2013-05-10 20:38:06 by meghasunny

      This year my research was presented to the 9^th grade algebra class of Lowell High School in Lowell, MA with the goal of increasing student awareness about the applications of science, mathematics and engineering. Students were also introduced to MATLAB programming and were able to develop programs to analyze the physical relationship between a given set of physical parameters. In particular, they designed a graphical user interface (GUI) in MATLAB so that users can determine the amount of time the air in their tanks will last using Boyles Law. The GUI requires users to input their name, tank size, breathing rate, and expected di...

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