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By: Mike Behr
https://news.mst.edu/2023/11/charting-new-waters/#comment-443776
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:54:28 +0000https://news.mst.edu/?p=49340#comment-443776I agree with Mirly’s comments about taking real-world co-op experience back into the classroom. When I worked as a co-op with McDonnell Douglas in the early 1970s, I was in a division that defined the outer surface of the DC-10 wing by using mathematical surfaces. I had to learn matrix manipulation and translation of vector coordinates between two coordinate systems that had been rotated and translated with respect to each other. When I returned to study kinematics at UMR, I thought “I wish I had known this before my recent co-op period!”. When classmates asked “Why should we be concerned about this?”, I had real-world examples for them.
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