On Friday during the last day of PEARC20 there was a wonderful Research Software Engineers Community Workshop (US-RSE) to discuss building and sustaining software development community.

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I had the pleasure to be a part of one of the panels and gave a short presentation on my work on …

I was pleased to present the most resent paper form our CyberAmbassador Project entitled "CyberAmbassadors: Results from Pilot Testing a New Professional Skills Curriculum" By Astri Briliyanti, Julie Wilson Rojewski, Katy Luchini-Colbry, and Dirk Colbry. This paper wwas given the best paper award in the PEARC 2020 “People involved in …

I presented an overview of my CMSE401 course (methods in parallel programming) at the SEHET20 Workshop Program put on by the SigHPC Education Chapter.

The presentation ("The Design of a Practical Flipped Classroom Model for Teaching Parallel Programming to Undergraduates") focused mostly on how I designed the course using a …

We don't have a landline but over the years I have collected a bunch of phone wiring, sockets, etc. My spouse asked their social network and we got three landline phones and the kids and I put together a really simple intercom project with a 9 volt battery.

All we …

My eldest is a big Harry Potter Fan and made a few drawings of a Magical Staff they wanted to construct. I was really excited by the drawing. We purchased the crystal and staff online and sat down in front of OpenSCAD and came up with a fairly close design …

I was asked to put together a few videos to help transition to online teaching. Here is my first pass...

Zoom is an online video chat program with many useful features including:

• Face-to-face Communication
• Desktop Sharing
• Chat
• Breakout rooms
• Video Recording

Using zoom requires the download and installation of an …

Every few semesters I have a Tensorflow example I want to try on the HPCC. I'm not an expert on the software and between the HPCC, CUDA, Tensorflow, Keras, Python, Anaconda, etc. there are a lot of continuously changing and moving parts. Seems like when I figure out how to …

I wanted to share the content for one of my courses with some other instructors but it turns out not everyone uses Jupyter notebooks.

Option 1: I decided to convert all of the notebooks to pdfs using nbconvert. However, nbconvert isn't working on my MacBook. I think I have too …

Many MSU classrooms have two overhead monitors that project on two screens at the front of class. Each room is equipped with a technology cart that has a desktop computer, overhead camera and laptop connections that can be used to project any of the content to either screen. Up until …

A few years ago I purchased a kit from JJRobots. The kit provides all non-plastic parts and then allows you to build a variety of robots. Up until now I only made the eggbot which tends to come out around Easter time, the kids love it.

Last week my niblets …