I came across MIT's report on AI in Education last week and consumed it fully and rapidly. I think it was excellent and fulfilled something I, and likely many educators, are longing for. The report was developed by a committee written to inform the university's administration about generative AI in …

Dap Hartmann provided an amusing read this morning; digging at TU Delft's adoption of Brightspace 2.0. He began by poking at the tendering [1] process for selecting TU Delft's new learning management system. He claims we are virtually the only university that uses Brightspace [2] and the university supports …

Like all educators these last few years, we are figuring out how to handle students offloading their learning to generative AI and our corresponding challenges in having to read the AI's writing instead of our students. I wrote this as a statement for my students as guidelines for writing their …

I was the (co-)grader today for presentations about MSc students' literature studies. A student presenter shared that they had read through 100 papers to find the results for their literature study. Following the presentation, a student in the audience asked something like: "One hundred papers sounds like a lot …

At today's department meeting I asked about the progress of the faculty's policy/advice on generative AI use in writing MSc theses. It was announced to us before the summer that it was forthcoming. I was told it was unlikely to arrive and that, if it did, it wouldn't be …

Co-authored by co-instructors Jason K. Moore and Kenneth Lyons. Course Description Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations is a 30+ year old upper level elective in the mechanical engineering curriculum at the University of California, Davis. It is a classic mechanical engineering course that stems from the courses and books of Timoshenko …

Introduction In our mechanical engineering curriculum, we teach a required upper level mechanical engineering course entitled "Mechanical Design". This course is primarily focused on teaching students how to apply theories of stress and strain prediction to determine if arbitrary mechanical parts and structures are likely to fail under static and …