Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

In the session of the first class of my Engineering Computer Aided Design and Drawing for the sixth week of the first term, we changed software for a while, using the 3-D animation software used by the (duh) 3-D animation class already installed in the computers in the lab - to return to the solids they used to draw in the Manual Drafting course two terms ago - this time rendering them on the screen.

So at the same time as the new Manual Drafting students are probably using these solids (I wouldn't know yet - I don't teach it this term) the engineering sophomore students are also.

And now at least one batch of the engineering students can say they are familiar with the same software being used by the computer science and communications arts majors - not exclusively anymore.

There just has to be an additional guarantee, asking the student to show me how he or she makes the final layer of the solid, so I know that it was really their work and not just copied.

In the second session of my Engineering Materials Science class, they had their first exam for the term, despite protests.

I had three sets made, and a seating arrangement drawn up. For the first time since my astronomy days, I also had an enumeration and identification part to cover the handouts that the director of the school of engineering taught them for the first three weeks of the term. It covered only a fourth of their entire score though, a hundred forty points total.

The anecdote about Deiv's latest escapade in this class, I have (after some consideration) decided to write - although without identification - in the students-friendly version of the journal.

Session 1191 was not allowed to use certain software. Class dismissed.