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Entry #169: 21 Feb 2020; 12:00 am; 0 comments

Egads!

We have not entered a blog entry since September 2019.

What have we been doing?

Well, we have been working with wonderful colleagues to bring resources for teachers who wish to use modeling to motivate teaching differential equations in many ways by maintaining our SIMIODE HUB site; organizing events at national meetings such as paper sessions, minicourses, and workshops; being good stewards of our National Science Foundation grant in support of SIMIODE philosophy; offering SCUDEM for teams of students with some 610 last November in many parts of the world; and working on sustainability issues for SIMIODE in any number of ways, one of which is through donations (subtle, eh?).

We were prompted to "speak" because of a YouTube on using differential equation models and control theory to do amazing things with quadcopters. Our colleague Bil Skerbitz, Math Teacher and Math Team Coach, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, MN USA "woke" us with this amazing instance of applying differential equations. Try it you will like it. Thank you Bill.

We promise to share more frequently and hope something will interest you. Thank you.

BTW our most recent workshop was a Faculty Development workshop at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá in February 2020.

We leave you with some thoughts to make you think. Enjoy.

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About the author

Brian Winkel

Brian Winkel earned his degrees in mathematics (BS, MS, PhD) in 1964, 1967, and 1971, respectively, with his PhD from Indiana University in Noetherian Ring Theory. While teaching in his first position (liberal arts college Albion College, Albion MI USA) he developed an interest in applications of mathematics to biology and while teaching in an engineering setting (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute IN USA, United States Air Force Academy, USAFA CO USA, and United States Military Academy, West Point NY USA) he developed a strong interest in engineering applications of mathematics. With sabbatical experiences at Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI USA and Brown University, Providence RI USA he strengthened his commitment to teaching mathematics using applications to introduce and drive the learning process.

Along the way he founded and edited three journals Cryptologia (1977 - Present), Collegiate Microcomputer (1982-1993), and PRIMUS - Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies (1990 - Present).

Upon retirement from the United States Military Academy in spring 2011 he committed time, energy, and resources, and together with many very talented colleagues who possessed the same vision of teaching modeling first differential equations he founded SIMIODE.

Currently, Brian is a Co-PI of a National Science Foundation DUE-IUSE grant in support of SIMIODE Community of Practice, web space, workshops, and resource development and promotion.

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