…to announce our elegant new CODAP logo, developed by Derek Yesman of Daydream Design*. We think this logo expresses the many faces of CODAP both concisely and beautifully. Looking at…
…to the right shows two time series from a student’s engineering design process, representing about 45 minutes of her construction (white line) and analysis (green line) activities while trying to…
…in Energy3D (which aims to ultimately include various renewable energy sources in its design capacity to support energy engineering). Exactly how the math works can be found in the User…
…design, which must address both structure and function and their relationship. Being able to create complex structures rapidly and then study their functions based on the building simulation and solar…
…and engineering design. It featured a solar engineer from a leading solar company as a guest speaker. The activities included hands-on and computer-based activities that were designed to inspire and…
…is important to the design of high-performance buildings. As I have blogged last week, the insolation calculation in our Energy3D software considers the incident angle of the Sun to the…
…like to include locations in your country in the software so that you can design energy solutions for your own area. As a matter of fact, this was exactly what…
…principles behind this solar design, assessment, and optimization process based on science is exactly what the Next Generation Science Standards require K-12 students in the US to learn and practice….
Apparently, Google has been secretly making cars that drive themselves. They have logged over 140,000 miles of self-navigation and over 1,000 miles of navigation entirely free of human intervention, all…
…human activities? Do we impose a “carbon tax” on all goods? What would be the economic impacts of these policies? Is the electronics-centric lifestyle to which we’ve become accustomed even…