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The process of writing instructions for a computer to follow is called programming. Although it is one of the most rewarding fields, it is also one of the most complex and difficult.

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MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders

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MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders

Designing a ship or submarine for the U.S. Navy requires an understanding of naval architecture, hydrodynamics, electrical and structural engineering, materials science, and more. That’s why the Navy works so closely with MIT, where some of the world’s foremost experts in each of those disciplines converge.

The largest among the graduate-level naval programs at MIT is the 2N Graduate Program in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. The three-year 2N program helps naval officers work at the intersection of different academic disciplines to design ships and submarines from the ground up and solve the complex technical problems that arise from completing missions on the sea.

��The 2N program is designed to take officers who have experience operating ships and submarines and get them the technical foundation they need to be technical leaders in the Navy,” says 2N Professor of the Practice Andrew Gillespy, who graduated from the program himself in 2008. “We’re building the next generation of ship and submarine designers for the U.S. Navy.”

The MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program also enrolls naval officers, in its dedicated master’s program in oceanography and applied ocean science and engineering, where they work on Navy-related research ranging from autonomous vehicles to applied ocean science, physical oceanography, and more. While the 2N program, which was founded back in 1901, has been around a lot longer than the MIT-WHOI Program, naval officers were among the first graduates of MIT-WHOI in 1970.

“The Navy’s been with us from the beginning,” WHOI Senior Scientist Ann Tarrant says. “MIT’s various naval offerings really show the strong link between the institutions. It shows MIT’s commitment to doing research that is valuable to our nation’s security, and the high esteem the Navy places on MIT more broadly.”

At MIT, both the 2N and MIT-WHOI programs are housed within the Department of Mechanical Engineering; MIT-WHOI, which also offers a doctoral program, is jointly hosted by the Department for Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Still, the programs engage students and faculty from across the Institute.

“Our students work with pretty much every professor who touches ocean engineering,” Gillespy says. “One of the great parts about our program is the ability for the students to do one-on-one thesis work with the best professors in the world here at MIT. That is something that the Navy really, values.”

A century of training naval leaders

MIT was one of the first educational institutions to include oceanography in its curriculum and has played a leading role in advancing the discipline. The Department of Mechanical Engineering first offered a program in marine engineering and naval architecture in 1886, which led to the Department of Naval Architecture.

The program has changed names several times since then, but it can be mapped to today’s Center for Ocean Engineering, which continues to support the Navy and MIT’s naval programs through its research.

The 2N program was founded in 1901 and has been taught by active-duty faculty members for close to a century. Students in the program, who also include members of the U.S. Coast Guard as well as foreign naval officers, jump back into academia with two years of classes followed by an industry-sponsored design project.

“The program gives you a solid foundation in naval engineering and the leeway to study what’s interesting to you; this way you can bring new research back to the fleet,” says Adam Jay Pressel, who’s entering his third and final year in the 2N program. “Being a full-time graduate student and naval officer at one of the best universities in the world is probably the best job I’ll ever have.”

Gillespy notes that while the requirements for most MIT master’s students is 72 credits plus a thesis, 2N graduates earn around 300 credits over their three years.

The reason for the high course load is that 2N graduates get two master’s degrees, and the 2N Naval Engineer’s degree is earned by meeting both MIT and the Navy’s requirements.

“We encourage them to get the second degree in an area they’re interested in and really want to pursue,” Gillespy says. “We’ve had students working in electrical engineering on power systems, in mechanical engineering, and system design and management, which is the joint program with the business school and the engineering program. That program is great because we’re not just engineers. In the future, our students are going to be technical leaders, so getting that leadership and management expertise from the business school is great. But you probably can’t pick a course at MIT that we haven’t had somebody get a second degree in.”

The MIT-WHOI master’s program is usually a little over two years long and features coursework at WHOI and MIT followed by a master’s thesis. Naval students have worked on topics like ocean circulation, autonomous vehicles, and meteorology.

“Having naval officers really benefits our whole student body and program,” Tarrant says. “They have a lot of extremely valuable real-world experience, and they help us understand how the research we’re doing can make an impact in the Navy and on the world.”

Tarrant notes that many faculty members and researchers at both MIT and WHOI work on projects funded by the Navy, and naval officers bring valuable perspectives to that work.

“It helps us align the work we do with the Navy’s mission,” Tarrant says. “WHOI and MIT more broadly have a long-standing relationship with the Navy that really helps us.”

MIT leaves its mark

Naval officers’ work at MIT has gone on to make a huge impact on the Navy. Several students’ ship design and conversion projects from the 2N program have gone on to become actual ships the Navy builds. In 2019, 2N students worked on converting a massive destroyer called the DDG 1000 to accommodate hypersonic missiles. The students concept design showed it was feasible, and the Navy is actively overseeing that conversion now.

The graduates themselves have also gone on to assume leadership roles at every level of the Navy. The current program manager for a major Navy initiative designing a new class of submarines is 2N graduate Admiral Pete Small ’05, SM ’05, who previously taught as a professor of the practice at MIT.

“Our program has a really proud history of producing officers that are great leaders and have the technical foundation to lead highly advanced programs,” Gillespy says.

Gillespy says his own experience in the Navy has underscored the value of the 2N program. He and several other graduates of the program were responsible for designing the Columbia-class submarine, which is scheduled to go into service in 2031.

“Every day when we were designing the Columbia class submarine, we had the world’s experts in a particular area come in and present their design thoughts and what they’re working on, and being able to have intelligent conversations and push the program forward across all the disciplines was critical,” Gillespy says. “There wasn’t a course that I took here that I couldn’t trace back to a discipline that I was working on. My fellow officers echoed the sentiment of how well MIT prepared us to do submarine design.”

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Crushing Poverty: Unleashing the Power of Goal 1 for a Prosperous World

Introduction

In an ideal world, every individual should have the opportunity to thrive, free from the grip of poverty. However, poverty remains a persistent and complex challenge that affects billions of people worldwide. Acknowledging this dire reality, the United Nations set forth a transformative agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Among the 17 goals, Goal 1 stands as a beacon of hope, aiming to eradicate poverty in all its forms by 2030. In this article, we will explore the significance of Goal 1, delve into the multifaceted nature of poverty, discuss its impacts, and outline a roadmap to achieve a poverty-free world.

The Urgency of No Poverty

Poverty is not merely a statistic; it represents the daily struggle of countless individuals, families, and communities. The urgency to address this issue is paramount, as poverty engenders a host of other social, economic, and political problems. Poverty leads to increased social inequalities, limits access to basic human rights, perpetuates cycles of deprivation, and hampers sustainable development efforts. It is crucial to acknowledge that poverty is not an isolated problem but rather interconnected with several other SDGs, such as those related to hunger, health, education, and gender equality.

The Significance of Goal 1

Goal 1 serves as the foundation upon which the other SDGs can be achieved. By focusing on poverty eradication, societies can break free from the vicious cycle of deprivation and inequality, creating an environment conducive to sustainable development. Goal 1 encompasses three dimensions of poverty: extreme poverty (living on less than $1.90 a day), moderate poverty, and multidimensional poverty, which takes into account factors such as education, health, and standard of living.

Understanding Poverty

Defining Poverty

Poverty can be defined as a state of deprivation, where individuals lack access to resources and opportunities required for a decent standard of living. Beyond financial poverty, it encompasses various aspects, including inadequate education, limited access to healthcare, lack of clean water and sanitation, insufficient housing, and social exclusion. A comprehensive understanding of poverty requires recognizing its multidimensional nature, acknowledging the complexities that perpetuate its existence.

The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Poverty

Poverty extends far beyond monetary measures. It manifests in different forms, affecting diverse dimensions of human life. Access to quality education, healthcare, housing, clean water, sanitation, and basic infrastructure are crucial components that contribute to poverty alleviation. Additionally, social exclusion, discrimination, and gender inequality serve as barriers, exacerbating the effects of poverty and limiting opportunities for marginalized groups.

The Impacts of Poverty

Economic Consequences

Poverty has far-reaching economic consequences, creating a vicious cycle that hampers economic growth. Individuals living in poverty often lack access to education and skills training, limiting their employment prospects and perpetuating low-income jobs. Reduced productivity, limited market participation, and insufficient investment in human capital are key challenges that stem from poverty, inhibiting economic development at both individual and societal levels.

Social and Psychological Effects

Beyond economic implications, poverty takes a toll on the social fabric of societies. It breeds social inequalities, marginalizes individuals and communities, and leads to a lack of social cohesion. Poverty often results in increased crime rates, unequal access to justice, and limited political participation. Moreover, the psychological impact of poverty cannot be overlooked, as individuals experience heightened stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem, which further hinders their ability to break free from the poverty trap.

The Roadmap to No Poverty

Empowering Individuals

To effectively combat poverty, empowerment plays a pivotal role. Empowering individuals involves providing access to quality education, healthcare, and social protection systems. Equipping individuals with skills and knowledge empowers them to participate fully in the economy, enabling sustainable livelihoods and enhancing their overall well-being.

Enhancing Economic Opportunities

Promoting inclusive economic growth is crucial in eradicating poverty. This requires creating an enabling environment for entrepreneurship, job creation, and investment. Governments, in partnership with the private sector, can foster innovation and provide support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to stimulate economic development and reduce inequalities.

Creating Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is essential for breaking the cycle of poverty. It entails investing in infrastructure, promoting renewable energy, and adopting environmentally friendly practices. Embracing sustainable development principles ensures the conservation of natural resources, mitigates climate change, and creates opportunities for economic growth that benefits all segments of society.

Success Stories and Inspiring Initiatives

Microfinance Revolutionizing Lives

Microfinance has emerged as a powerful tool in the fight against poverty. By providing small loans and financial services to the most vulnerable populations, microfinance institutions empower individuals to start businesses, improve their livelihoods, and escape poverty. The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, founded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, stands as a shining example of how microfinance can transform lives.

Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Breaking the Cycle

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have gained traction worldwide as effective poverty reduction strategies. These programs provide direct cash transfers to low-income households, conditional upon certain behaviors such as sending children to school or attending healthcare appointments. By incentivizing education and healthcare utilization, CCT programs break intergenerational cycles of poverty, offering families a pathway towards a better future.

Education as the Key to Prosperity

Education is an indispensable tool for poverty eradication. Investing in quality education, particularly for marginalized communities, equips individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to break free from the chains of poverty. Accessible and inclusive education systems empower individuals to secure better employment opportunities, escape poverty, and contribute meaningfully to society.

The Role of Governments, NGOs, and Individuals

Government Policies and International Cooperation

Governments play a crucial role in implementing policies and creating an enabling environment to eradicate poverty. It requires effective governance, equitable resource allocation, and social protection systems. International cooperation, through partnerships and aid, is also vital in supporting countries' efforts to achieve Goal 1.

NGOs and Grassroots Movements

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and grassroots movements play a significant role in poverty reduction by filling gaps in service delivery, advocating for marginalized communities, and facilitating empowerment initiatives. Their on-the-ground presence and community-driven approaches help address the unique challenges faced by different communities.

Individual Actions: The Power of Small Steps

While governments and organizations have a crucial role to play, individuals can also make a difference in the fight against poverty. Small acts of kindness, volunteering, supporting local businesses, and advocating for social justice contribute to building a more inclusive and equitable society. Collectively, these individual actions have the potential to create a ripple effect and drive meaningful change.

Conclusion

Goal 1: No Poverty serves as a rallying point for humanity to address the pervasive challenge of poverty. Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of poverty and its far-reaching impacts is essential for crafting effective strategies. By empowering individuals, enhancing economic opportunities, and fostering sustainable development, we can move closer to a world free from poverty. Success stories and inspiring initiatives, combined with the collective efforts of governments, NGOs, and individuals, offer hope for a future where no one is left behind. Let us unite and work tirelessly to achieve Goal 1 and build a prosperous world for all.

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They are taught a fuck ton of things for safety reasons including proper form, proper protective gear fit (which is also inspected and replaced and there's large amounts of science going into improving it), and physical conditioning exercises to maintain the strength and flexibility needed to perform the actions they do. Penalties for unsafe techniques have been increasing dramatically in the past 10 or so years and extend beyond the field.

All impact related activities have risk of injury and wear on the body. That includes the most basic impacts from just running to heavier impacts like contact sports. The most common sports injuries are repetitive use injuries from lack of conditioning, lack of cross-training, and obviously, excess repetitive use. The number one sports for producing injuries in children are soccer and baseball because they have too many games and occur most of the year, versus one game a week for 3-4 months.

Any coach worth anything encourages their players to keep up workouts in the off season and will encourage their players to participate in other sports depending on their interests and strengths. Staying active during the off season either with basic body conditioning exercises or other sports with different types of movements reduces injury risk significantly.

Coaches use a variety of resources to determine safety of weather conditions for the activities done at practices, frequency of breaks, and supply of water, electrolytes, and food.

Coaches who do not do these things and put players in dangerous environments are child abusers.

One thing that does need to change for all sports and just in general for children's health is the procedures of their physicals. Physicals are already required to participate in rec league and public school extracurricular sports, but they aren't very thorough and are easy to breeze through as a practitioner leading to missed signs of possible problems. Pediatric providers generally don't know how to recognize abnormal hypermobility unless it's very dramatic or know how to advise parents and kids on how to care for hypermobile joints. "Growing pains" are still a commonly believed, under-researched myth (they have nothing to do with growth) and lead to missed diagnoses. There's no requirement for EKGs, even though cardiac arrest is the main cause of sports related deaths. While a proper exam using a stethoscope can be enough to access cardiac risk, an exam that relies entirely on the examiner's senses and attention and an environment with minimal background noise can miss signs that EKG would pick up. An EKG isn't going to miss something because the patients little sibling started talking or mom sneezed. Given that we have now had a pandemic of a virus known to cause cardiovascular damage in people regardless of prior health or age, updating that requirement seems like best practice to me. Reported family histories is also overly relied on for ruling out risks. Family history should increase likelihood of reported conditions, but a lack of reported family history should not decrease likelihood of possible conditions. There are so many factors that may cause a condition that is present in a family to now be reported, from lack of medical access by family members, estrangement or just not having close family relationships, general forgetfulness, the family history form only having a little bit of space or only listing certain relationships so they leave out things that could be relevant, etc.

What sports can provide to children is extremely valuable, and we owe it to kids to provide them with skilled, properly educated, and safety oriented coaches and thorough medical exams. Spreading lies about safety standards and vilifying sports based on your lack of interest in them causing real or perceived rejection from family or peers does not make them not a critical part of societal provisions for child development alongside public education and all other extracurricular activities.

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How to Start Climate Education Program in Your School?

It is obvious that the individual and collective actions are of great importance as the world faces the challenges posed by climate change. One of the areas often overlooked where we can make a big difference is through our diets. Climate education programs are increasingly focusing on sustainable diets' climate impact in the fight against climate change, and here's why.

Understanding Sustainable Diets

A sustainable diet is one that has minimal impacts on the environment and supports food security and nutrition for generations now and in the future. These diets promote the consumption of whole, minimally processed foods with minimal environmental damage, including greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and deforestation.

Key elements of a sustainable diet are:

Plant-based foods: The staples of a sustainable diet are vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, and legumes. They have a lower carbon footprint than animal-based foods.

Locally sourced produce: Eating locally reduces the carbon emissions associated with transporting food over long distances.

Seasonal foods: Taking seasonal produce will reduce the need for energy-intensive farming practices.

Low consumption of meat: Livestock farming is a major source of greenhouse gas. A reduction in meat consumption leads to a big reduction in one's carbon footprint.

Impact on the Climate

Sustainable diet reduces the food we consume drastically from the environmental point of view. Here are some of the most important benefits of a sustainable diet:

Emission of Greenhouse Gases: Agriculture accounts for a good share of emissions from greenhouse gases in the global world. In particular, cattle rearing remains the highest in such emissions. Shifting towards a plant-based diet can greatly reduce these emissions.

Conservation of Water Resources: sustainable diets climate impact  require less water. For instance, plant-based foods require significantly less water compared to raising livestock.

Preservation of Biodiversity: Sustainable farming practices preserve natural habitats and enhance biodiversity. Selecting sustainably sourced foods promotes ecosystems and wildlife.

Reduced Deforestation: Livestock demand leads to deforestation. Sustainable diets reduce this demand and preserve forests, which act as carbon sinks.

Climate Education Programs and Sustainable Diets

Climate education programs have a salutary effect on increasing awareness regarding the urgent need for sustainable diets. Participants learn how their diets contribute to environmental degradation and are offered suggestions for how they can become more sustainable in their eating choices.

Through these programs, people will be able to learn how to make the proper informed choices in diet that benefit them as well as contribute towards healthiness on the planet.

Conclusion

Bringing sustainable diets into our daily life is a very powerful way to fight climate change. Through Climate education program, we will be encouraged and more empowered to take action for a sustainable future by making the right choice toward the utilization of our food choices in assisting the environment. Small changes today can lead to significant environmental benefits for generations.

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