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Any engineering major at any engineering school in the US must take a course entitled Introduction to Engineering Design (IED), or something similar. Right now, I am teaching that course at a local college. I think it would be useful for students to have a thread in which information on...

I have been on this post for quit some time. I really do not post all that much, but there are a lot of people that know their stuff. My question, to those willing, are to apply calc. in terms for high schoolers. I am going to start student teaching, and I want to apply math in as many ways as I...

This seems to be a fairly common question. Let's make a list of possible topics and projects someone could do for these competitions.

At school we have been given a very important research assignment, but my team-mates (we work in groups) and I don't have a subject to research on. Does anyone have any ideas? My team-mates and I would really appreciate it. We were thinking about researching something on rocketfuel (or just...

I have read a surprising theory about the massive Permian extinction at http://www.nature.com/nsu/030818/030818-16.html. Briefly, Gregory Ryskin of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, argues that a tremendous explosion of the methane dissolved under the seas has caused the...

Vipers amazing nicked ideas on the universe! Taken with permission from http://www.expage.com/theuniverseisborn The universe, finite and intelligible in all its parts, cannot be infinite and unintelligible in its whole. It cannot have two completely different natures simultaneously. The...

Over the summer I got mail saying that in order to pass my science project it must meet these objectives. It should 1. Prove something that has never proven or show something that was never seen or known about 2. Advance our knowledge or 3. Can be continued to be researched upon in the future...

I'm just about to start a piece of research project on particle physics. Can anyone give me some useful ideas and websites containing useful information? I just want to have a general idea about it. Also interesting things that I can do with Particles. What types of theories are linked to...

Greetings ! I have a problem, i am not able to express my ideas in english in the right way, i use rather long sentences, and most people say they find it hard to understand me (mainly, and specially when talking in english). I was wondering if you could give me fast tips of what should i do...

I had started an alternative energy thread in the tech. area. I have some wacked ideas about alternative power sources that are out of the realm of what are sound ideas for the logical person. Because of this I thought that if I posted here I could get some open minded thoughts and ideas on...

I need suggestions for a license plate. I would like to keep it free so it should include a number. Any suggestions would be welcomed, I would like to keep it sciency or mathy, no religious ones please.

if light is different than originally postulated check out these articles http://www.geocities.com/acmephysics/ http://physics.about.com/library/weekly/aa011503a.htm http://aca.mq.edu.au/lightspeed.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/07/1028157961167.html...

If somebody wants to know what Planck units are, how do you go about explaining? Can you make them intuitive without too much technical detail? What would your approach to describing natural units to a non-scientist (possibly a little vague as to what hbar and G are)? I want to know any...

[SOLVED] I need ideas I've been searching for information for weeks, and I can't seem to get any help. I've used this forum in the past and have really appreciated the quick responses. This is not a science question, but an education question. Is anyone feeling creative? I would like to have an...

Ever have a good idea for a game? no...oh ok well if you ever do post it here so someone can come along and steal it for their game desing class.