Devin Berg 
@drb@scholar.social
- Support
- https://ko-fi.com/devinb
- Non-profit
- https://www.openengr.com/
- Website
- https://www.devinberg.com
- Director
- @engrxiv
Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Working to make engineering knowledge and education more accessible. He/him
Joined Jan 2018
Actually, it would be nice if fewer apps required a phone (i.e. Signal) and then I could just run most things exclusively on a computer. I can keep a computer operating smoothly for a lot longer than a smartphone.
My kingdom for a phone that isn't constantly warning me about being out of storage space.
Devin Berg
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Just found out that my first peer reviewed paper in the educational realm (in the area of Open Educational Resources) has been published: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5763/5600 Many thanks to the OER Foundation, my hard-working co-author Claire Goode, and to the good folks at the IRRODL journal for their help in making this happen!
1. University facing big budget problems.
2. We spend lots of $$$ on certain software.
3. I suggest viable FOSS alternative.
4. Them 👇
Yay! Finished 62 videos covering a range of topics in Engineering Dynamics.
https://toobnix.org/w/p/56p21vuNEJnaabxyKMQm2m
Thanks to @SDF for providing a home for them on the fediverse!
Devin Berg
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I'm bringing on Summer NSF REU research students for #engineering projects in watershed remediation and environmental monitoring. Applications are due January 24th!
I'm bringing on Summer NSF REU research students for #engineering projects in watershed remediation and environmental monitoring. Applications are due January 24th!
Devin Berg
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Open source solar power for anyone - A new book teaches how to build your own solar power system at any budget
See https://opensource.com/article/21/11/open-source-solar-power
I've been forcing myself to get at least 8 hours of sleep lately. It's still not enough.
Kind of cool that you can find archives of my uni's student newspaper going back to 1915 on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/stoutonia?&sort=date
Daughter has been struggling with her handwriting. Then we showed her cursive. She loves it and her handwriting in cursive is amazing!
Trying to pick out clothes to wear to my dad's funeral has me feeling like a kid playing "dress like an adult."
COVID vaccination rate among students on my campus
As of Friday, the student vaccination rate on my campus is 58%. That's not good enough
@SDF is toobnix down for everyone or just me?
We are really doing students a disservice by teaching them on Chromebooks in primary/secondary school. For many, their only other computing experience is their cell phones.
As a result, my first-year students don't know how to install software from the internet.
A journal using Manuscript Central is unsuccessfully processing my LaTeX files with TexLive 2013 and then tries to tell me that my files are the problem.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that they are using a tex distribution that is 8 years out-of-date!
My 8yo has been talking with a random accent that I couldn't place for the last few days. Just realized that she sounds exactly like Catherine O'Hara in Schitt's Creek. (she's never seen the show)
gardening, food
Between our CSA and our backyard garden, we are quickly becoming overrun with tomatoes.
- Support
- https://ko-fi.com/devinb
- Non-profit
- https://www.openengr.com/
- Website
- https://www.devinberg.com
- Director
- @engrxiv
Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Working to make engineering knowledge and education more accessible. He/him
Joined Jan 2018
