#the school of technology and engineering

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Graduates of the School of Technology and Engineering of Lille, French Flanders region of northern France

French vintage postcard

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im glad we’re finally talking about lack of technology literacy in younger people. everyone assumes we’ll automatically be good at it and have all the know-how because we grew up with it, and sure i might be more knowledgeable about it than say, someone 15 years older, but technology is changing and becoming more “turnkey” and a lot of the customization and workarounds just are not that accessible or obvious anymore. several tech companies boast that their new products are so simple and easy that a baby could do it, and users no longer have to figure out or understand anything behind the scenes because look, there’s a button right there you can press for this issue and if you’re still having problems you can just take it to a technician.

and im not saying this is inherently bad, it’s more accessible to people who don’t know anything about technology, but we are losing our computer skills because we don’t understand the tech and don’t see a need to. you buy a phone or a laptop and it’s perfectly usable fresh out the box and you don’t have to do anything to customize it because they’ve done it for you, which sucks especially considering they often don’t even want you to mess with the programming or software. customization is discouraged so they give you a handful of options they picked out and that’s that, and if your computer goes kaput then instead of learning how to fix it you can just throw it away and buy a new one! and while turnkey tech is a good option for a lot of people, we should still be encouraging know-how and teaching tech literacy in school as we become even more dependent on it. so many young people are struggling to work on computers and no one thinks to teach them because of the generation they’re in. it’s a major issue.

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I have a headcanon that norway is actually really good at speaking (eu) spanish as spanish is the most popular language norwegians choose to learn in high school (with german being the next most popular, he's probably fluent in that too lmao) what am saying is; norway could probably hold a conversation with Spain without any problem🇪🇸🗣️

(also let's be real, norway would probably need to speak/understand spanish as spain is his hollyday paradise😂)

Come on, you don't need to know Spanish to go on holiday there?? We know there's only one phrase you'd need to know how to say when in Spain 😎 /j

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Ah yes, Trans Am, such piece of rusty trash (affectionate)

- It's cover I'm layer of paint at least one centimeter thick thanks to constant redesigns and cover-ups of scorch marks from chases. But considering how rusty the car is the paint might be the last thing holding it together.

- Right front light is broken and completely unusable thanks to Party somehow hitting the only electric pole in the radius of ten miles. To be honest most of the lights don't work but hey you don't really need those, only the main ones are important but sadly as stated before one of them is out of it so driving at night is fun

- man, the engine is fucking bad, like yes it works thanks to the intense care it gets but oh boy if you planning on driving you better wear your seatbelt, not in case you crash but because shifting gears at high speed will otherwise throw you through the windshield

- saying that only one seatbelt is functional so good luck ig

- the right window often gets stuck while it's opening/closing thanks to sand in the mechanism

- unbelievably the a/c still somehow works?

- pastel pink fake fur ceiling with fairy lights, my beloved

- the steering wheel is wrapped in real leather so literally the fanciest shit you could get both in and outside of the city

- old solar panels on the roof since the accumulator is in silicon heaven and just for beauty points than anything else

- Gerard was too scared to put those wheel spikes, that bad guys in Mad Max style movies use to slash tires, on it but I know it's real

- the inside is absolutely covered in make-up and it's in no one's power to ever clean it

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The Nation’s Only High School Integrating Cyber Technology & Engineering Into All Academic Disciplines 

A publicly funded commuter and residential 9-12 magnet school serving students from around the state, offering free tuition for a diverse student body that is about 30% African American and 37% female.

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how did you end up with a STEM-related track for your senior high school? have you always enjoyed maths & sciences? i originally assumed by personality that you were studying something more in line with humanities, to be honest (and best of luck with all your studies!)

oh great question, and one i receive fairly often! i've always had a creative and fairly artsy personality; ive also always wanted to be some sort of scientist. lately that want has sharpened into wanting to be a doctor, which i really believe is my calling. arts are essential to my personality but they aren't my job, nor my only passion

also, i go to a science high school on a scholarship, which means i signed a contract at age 11 saying i would go into the sciences and work for the government for a number of years, so if you look at it that way im actually legally obliged to take a STEM-track haha

ask me anything!

[k12academics]

Top ranked by TripAdvisor / Yelp! Ed Leedskalnin secretly built Coral Castle at night; excavating, carving, and moving over 1,100 Tons of coral rock. Since 1923 Scientists, Engineers, and Scholars continue to be mystified. The methods Ed used to create this architectural feat remain unanswered to this day. See a hand-carved 9-ton gate: perfectly balanced, a Polaris telescope, the world's only Sundial that provides you with the time of day, month of the year and four seasons. Referred to as a Modern Megalith, Coral Castle is compared to the ancient megalith's of the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and is considered by many to be one of the Wonders of the World. Experience the Coral Castle with our tours guides. The guides will share the "Love Story", the History, the Science, and experience how some of Ed's items work; even after 98 years! Seen on the History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Ancient Aliens, Univision, BBC, and much more! Billy Idol wrote his famous song & continues to sing "Sweet Sixteen" in concert today. There is a fantastic short movie about the greatest mysteries of Coral Castle and it's creator and builder; Edward Leedskalnin. Enjoy the delicious delights at the Coral Castle Café and Gift Shop.

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5TechUIT là dự án khởi nghiệp sinh viên hiện đang hot nhất làng Đại học Quốc gia TP.HCM. Đây được xem là thiên đường mua sắm sách về công nghệ thông tin trực tuyến tuyệt vời với nhiều mẫu mã và dịch vụ uy tín đang thu hút rất nhiều sự quan tâm.

Vậy tại sao 5TechUIT lại có sức hút đến như vậy? Hãy cùng Review Tâm ga Arimasu khám phá qua bài viết này nhé!

Nhà sách 5TechUIT là lựa chọn hàng đầu về cung cấp sách công nghệ cho sinh viên tìm kiếm sách về IT với ba lý do sau:

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Chất lượng sách đảm bảo: 5TechUIT không chỉ là nhà sách giá rẻ mà còn cam kết đem đến cho bạn những cuốn sách chất lượng cao, với một số lượng lớn sách công nghệ được xuất phát từ các cơ sở nghiên cứu ở làng đại học Thủ Đức. Với nhiều chủ đề khác nhau như mạng máy tính, an ninh thông tin, và trí tuệ nhân tạo. Với sự đa dạng và chất lượng sách, bạn có thể tin tưởng vào 5TechUIT là điểm đến đáng tin cậy để nâng cao kiến thức và kỹ năng của mình trong lĩnh vực IT.

Tóm lại, 03 lý do chính để chọn 5TechUIT làm lựa chọn hàng đầu khi tìm kiếm sách học công nghệ thông tin: đa dạng sách, từ sách cơ bản như sách học lập trình scratch, pascal cho đến sách nâng cao như sách về mạng máy tính; giá rẻ. có thể rẻ nhất làng đại học; chất lượng, do có một số lượng sách nghiên cứu khoa học đến từ trường đại học quốc gia. Chần chừ gì nữa mà không đến ngay đến 5techuit.com để đặt mua sách học IT. 

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This Tiny, Tamper-Proof ID Tag Can Authenticate Almost Anything

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Engineers Developed a Tag That Can Reveal with Near-Perfect Accuracy Whether an Item is Real or Fake. The Key is in the Glue on the Back of the Tag.

— Adam Zewe | MIT News | Publication Date: February 18, 2024

A Few Years Ago, MIT Researchers Invented a Cryptographic ID Tag that is several times smaller and significantly cheaper than the traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs) that are often affixed to products to verify their authenticity.

This tiny tag, which offers improved security over RFIDs, utilizes terahertz waves, which are smaller and travel much faster than radio waves. But this terahertz tag shared a major security vulnerability with traditional RFIDs: A counterfeiter could peel the tag off a genuine item and reattach it to a fake, and the authentication system would be none the wiser.

The researchers have now surmounted this security vulnerability by leveraging terahertz waves to develop an antitampering ID tag that still offers the benefits of being tiny, cheap, and secure.

They mix microscopic metal particles into the glue that sticks the tag to an object, and then use terahertz waves to detect the unique pattern those particles form on the item’s surface. Akin to a fingerprint, this random glue pattern is used to authenticate the item, explains Eunseok Lee, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on the antitampering tag.

“These metal particles are essentially like mirrors for terahertz waves. If I spread a bunch of mirror pieces onto a surface and then shine light on that, depending on the orientation, size, and location of those mirrors, I would get a different reflected pattern. But if you peel the chip off and reattach it, you destroy that pattern,” adds Ruonan Han, an associate professor in EECS, who leads the Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

The researchers produced a light-powered antitampering tag that is about 4 square millimeters in size. They also demonstrated a machine-learning model that helps detect tampering by identifying similar glue pattern fingerprints with more than 99 percent accuracy.

Because the terahertz tag is so cheap to produce, it could be implemented throughout a massive supply chain. And its tiny size enables the tag to attach to items too small for traditional RFIDs, such as certain medical devices.

The paper, which will be presented at the IEEE Solid State Circuits Conference, is a collaboration between Han’s group and the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems Group of Anantha P. Chandrakasan, MIT’s chief innovation and strategy officer, dean of the MIT School of Engineering, and the Vannevar Bush Professor of EECS. Co-authors include EECS graduate students Xibi Chen, Maitryi Ashok, and Jaeyeon Won.

Preventing Tampering

This research project was partly inspired by Han’s favorite car wash. The business stuck an RFID tag onto his windshield to authenticate his car wash membership. For added security, the tag was made from fragile paper so it would be destroyed if a less-than-honest customer tried to peel it off and stick it on a different windshield.

But that is not a terribly reliable way to prevent tampering. For instance, someone could use a solution to dissolve the glue and safely remove the fragile tag.

Rather than authenticating the tag, a better security solution is to authenticate the item itself, Han says. To achieve this, the researchers targeted the glue at the interface between the tag and the item’s surface.

Their antitampering tag contains a series of miniscule slots that enable terahertz waves to pass through the tag and strike microscopic metal particles that have been mixed into the glue.

Terahertz waves are small enough to detect the particles, whereas larger radio waves would not have enough sensitivity to see them. Also, using terahertz waves with a 1-millimeter wavelength allowed the researchers to make a chip that does not need a larger, off-chip antenna.

After passing through the tag and striking the object’s surface, terahertz waves are reflected, or backscattered, to a receiver for authentication. How those waves are backscattered depends on the distribution of metal particles that reflect them.

The researchers put multiple slots onto the chip so waves can strike different points on the object’s surface, capturing more information on the random distribution of particles.

“These responses are impossible to duplicate, as long as the glue interface is destroyed by a counterfeiter,” Han says.

A vendor would take an initial reading of the antitampering tag once it was stuck onto an item, and then store those data in the cloud, using them later for verification.

AI For Authentication

But when it came time to test the antitampering tag, Lee ran into a problem: It was very difficult and time-consuming to take precise enough measurements to determine whether two glue patterns are a match.

He reached out to a friend in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and together they tackled the problem using AI. They trained a machine-learning model that could compare glue patterns and calculate their similarity with more than 99 percent accuracy.

“One drawback is that we had a limited data sample for this demonstration, but we could improve the neural network in the future if a large number of these tags were deployed in a supply chain, giving us a lot more data samples,” Lee says.

The authentication system is also limited by the fact that terahertz waves suffer from high levels of loss during transmission, so the sensor can only be about 4 centimeters from the tag to get an accurate reading. This distance wouldn’t be an issue for an application like barcode scanning, but it would be too short for some potential uses, such as in an automated highway toll booth. Also, the angle between the sensor and tag needs to be less than 10 degrees or the terahertz signal will degrade too much.

They plan to address these limitations in future work, and hope to inspire other researchers to be more optimistic about what can be accomplished with terahertz waves, despite the many technical challenges, says Han.

“One thing we really want to show here is that the application of the terahertz spectrum can go well beyond broadband wireless. In this case, you can use terahertz for ID, security, and authentication. There are a lot of possibilities out there,” he adds.

This work is supported, in part, by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies.

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SAGE University Bhopal students won First Prize in the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2023

In a remarkable display of skill and innovation, students from the School of Advanced Computing and School of Engineering & Technology at Sanjeev Agrawal Global Educational (SAGE) University, Bhopal, secured the First Prize in the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2023 held at Oriental College of Science & Technology, Bhopal (Nodal Center). The team, named 'EcoSmart Devs,' was led by Tanya Shekhawat, accompanied by team members Aniket Kajania, Prateek Khatri, Sumit Choudhary, Sanjali Khare, and Ayush Namdev, under the mentorship of Prof. Chandan Kumar, Faculty of the School of Advanced Computing. Competing against 22 teams in a rigorous 36-hour coding marathon, they tackled complex real-time problems faced by the Ministries of Coal, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, and Ministry of Textiles. Their distinction among 200 participants from various states showcased not only their technical prowess but also their endurance and teamwork. This victory, earning them a substantial prize of 1 Lakh rupees, not only brings honor to Sage University, Bhopal but also sets a high standard for future participants. Congratulations to the 'EcoSmart Devs' for their outstanding achievement!

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Catholic School of Technology and Engineering in Lille, French Flanders region of France

French vintage postcard

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Top 10 Software Development Companies in the USA Read more:

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Why Stem?

Senior High School is a two-year program that allows students to select the strand they want based on their interests, abilities, and educational needs (GOVPH, n.d.).

These are three tracks available for Senior High School students. The Academic, Technical Vocational Livelihood (TVL), and sports and Arts. Accountancy, Business, Management (ABM), Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (HESS), and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) (GOVPH, n.d.).

You can choose in each of these strands based on your likings, interests, and career you want to pursue. But for now, we will just focus on STEM.

As mentioned above, STEM is a learning and development strategy that places more emphasis on the ability in understanding problem solving and critical thinking. There are numerous subjects covered just like biology, physics, chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. They also have hands-on activities, laboratory experiments, and Research projects (StrandPh, 2023).

Since we're already talked about the opportunities offered by STEM, let us now go to the advantages of STEM in College. STEM offers a lot of packages and activities but this doesn't mean that you should always choose STEM. You should consider first the course that you want to take in because SHS strands has a lot of impact to students when they step in to College. A partial list of careers you can pursue if you take STEM are Medical doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Agriculture, Architectures, Information Technology, and many more that integrates the subject's Science, Mathematics, and Technology (Payne, 2023).

But as we go through, there are still pros and cons in choosing the strand STEM.

One of the pros in choosing STEM is the

1. Workforce Preparation

It is the most well-known STEM argument because it helps students to be ready for the workload, stress, and activities of College life (Cooper, 2019).

2. Promotes Gender Equality

They are attempting to eliminate the gender gap among the employees. Approximately 24% of people working in STEM fields today are women (Cooper, 2019). Early exposure to STEM disciplines for girls is important to end STEM Stereotypes.

And now, let us proceed to the cons.

1. Suffers from a lack of uniform curriculum

There is no uniformity regarding to the focus put through particular subjects. It is concerning that some teachers may not be fully qualified to teach in some areas due to lack of a STEM-specific teaching certificate (Cooper, 2019).

2. Elitism

Students who are naturally motivated are better served by STEM programs. Those who don't meet the requirements frequently fall behind. Because of this, they frequently don't target students with lower test scores even if they have the same capacity to do just as well as their classmates (Cooper, 2019).

At the end of the day, it still depends on you and your chose career on what strand to choose. Your future doesn't really depend on these strands as they only guide you to your pathway to success. Don't be pressured to others as each one of us has our own abilities. What your achievements in Senior High School doesn't make you less as a person as things might change as time goes by.

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STEM

Image taken from: https://news.uark.edu/articles/59523/certificate-minor-and-teaching-license-options-in-stem-education

STEM or Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics is a strand for senior high school students who are exposed to complex mathematical and science theories that will aid them and serve as a foundation in their college courses (OEd SHS, 2023).

When considering the STEM strand there are advantages that come in taking STEM in SHS in the Philippines. Compared to other SHS strands, this strand covers a wide range of topics. As a result, the students are exposed to a wide range of concepts and ideas that they can apply in their daily lives as well as in their future studies.

The STEM strand opens up many options for SHS students in the Philippines. They learn the fundamentals for many degrees, including engineering, information technology, and medical sciences. Students can improve their problem-solving skills for future studies through their lessons and projects. You might be interested in taking up the STEM strand and curriculum now that we've given you an overview (Blog-manager, 2022).

But in the end, the choice is yours. Should you choose STEM, there will be hardships and trials on your journey as a senior high student taking the STEM strand, but the fruit of your labor will be just as worth it. You will be equipped, prepared, and ready to face the challenges that college life will throw at you because, from the beginning, you chose STEM.

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The Importance of Robotics and Coding Education in Today's Schools

Think about this: a group of students, heads bent over small robots, their fingers tapping away at keyboards. But they're not just playing with gadgets; they're unravelling the mysteries of Robotics and Coding, two intertwined skills that have become the cornerstone of modern education. a classroom where the air crackles with excitement and you'll likely witness a scene that defines education in the 21st century.

But why should we care? Why should schools prioritize robotics and coding in their curriculum?

Take the example of a high school student who created a tool to assist visually impaired people in navigating on their own. Armed with coding skills and a passion for change, they created an innovative solution that marries empathy with Technology. Or take the tale of a group of youngsters who coded a simple website that evolved into a platform connecting volunteers with local charities. These aren't just anecdotes; they're proof that coding isn't confined to screens, it's a catalyst for tangible change.

But it's not only about the tangible outcomes; it's about cultivating a mindset. Coding education isn't just about learning a Programming Language; it's about learning to think differently. It encourages problem-solving, nurtures creativity, and teaches resilience in the face of bugs and errors.

Now, let's shift our focus to the world of robotics, where imagination meets Engineering. Ever heard of a group of middle school students who built a robot to clean up ocean trash? That's not science fiction; it's the power of robotics education. These young minds aren't just dreaming of a better future; they're actively crafting it with nuts, bolts, and lines of code. Robotics isn't just about creating machines; it's about creating solutions that address real world problems.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts an 11% growth in computer and information technology occupations by 2029, requiring individuals with data deciphering, algorithm manipulation, and technology innovation skills.

As educators, parents, and learners, we're faced with a crucial question: How do we ensure that every child has access to coding and robotics education? How can we make these skills as fundamental as reading and writing, enabling young minds to shape technology rather than being shaped by it? It's a question that speaks to the heart of our collective future.

Education in robotics and coding is essential for today's kids because it equips them to thrive in a technologically driven society that is continually expanding. It gives them the resources they need to comprehend, navigate, and shape the future. Schools must take quick steps to increase students' chances of success and make sure they are effectively preparing students for this fast-changing world.