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		<title>Over 500,000 Years of Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered where technology has come- from the earliest of ages to the present?  Below I have complied a very, very brief accounting.
 
500,000 B.C. – 1200B.C.
·         The hoe and fishing nets introduced
·         The oil lamp and needle introduced
·         A caveman invented the wheel
·         Fire introduced
·         Spear, Bow and Arrow introduced
·         Hieroglyphics introduced
 
1200 B.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elasticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some goods and services that see very little change in quantity demanded with an increase in price. On the other hand, there are those that see the complete opposite. How responsive consumers are to changes in price is called elasticity. This is measured by dividing the percent change in price in to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering Engineering Design – Unpacking Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.xlacademics.net/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Virtually everything around us and everything we use every day has been designed. 
Many different engineers/designers work in our modern society, usually specializing in designing one type of product. 

The pens we use, the chairs we sit on, the rooms in which we spend our time, even the clothes we wear – all of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Liberal Arts/Gen Eds – Engineering Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look close at my last post “Characteristics of an Engineer” and tally up the cross connections between what defines Liberal Arts/Gen Eds ( I will use these terms synonymously)- those that you first may have remembered taking in High School – (those not based on what you might think an engineer always does-science/math [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Characteristics Of An Engineer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk to you about what the characteristics of a typical engineer are. They can be likened to a picture puzzle where each characteristic is a puzzle piece to be installed to make the final picture..
Characteristics:
Slightly less than 5% of college grads are engineers,
There are about 1.6 million engineers in the current workforce,
They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting Yourself As An Engineer</title>
		<link>http://blog.xlacademics.net/2010/10/11/supporting-yourself-as-an-engineer/%</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk about a topic that I get questions about that seems to be very paramount to many espiring students and adults- what income they need to support themselves as engineers. The question of money seems to top the list even though there are many other considerations such as your interests, skill set, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education: Vision</title>
		<link>http://blog.xlacademics.net/2010/10/08/education-vision/%</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.xlacademics.net/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Riddle: What is always all around you, comes in great abundance, it seems plentiful; but, you never have enough, there is always more coming; but once you use it or let it go you can not get it back, and finally, though we know better, we continuously waste it- GIVE UP?  Yes, you guessed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Candy from the Strangers</title>
		<link>http://blog.xlacademics.net/2010/10/01/take-the-candy-from-the-strangers/%</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is that we are taught not to take candy from strangers, but every October 31st it’s completely acceptable and highly encouraged? The same parents who warn their children of the dangers of taking things offered by people they don’t know are the same who escort them to do the very thing…repeatedly.
 
The American economy, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Company You Keep</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
What do you want to be when you grow up?  Remember this question?  It is asked everyday by unthoughtful parents and adults.  I say unthoughtful because, typically, after this question is asked there is no follow through of further conversation about the topic by the parent or adult.  The adult may say, “Well you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Became An Engineer</title>
		<link>http://blog.xlacademics.net/2010/09/20/why-i-became-an-engineer/%</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I would like to give you a short history of how I became an engineer. It’s not your stereotypical – get out of high school, go to college, find an engineering job, remain in that job for ever, situation.

I became interested in science first, as I said earlier, in my very early years as an [...]]]></description>
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