ALWAYS ON
“Summertime” George Gershwin 1934
The Academy Orchestra is made up of students aged 8-16, and perform under conductor Kerry Bennett.
“Mountain High Apple Pie”
This pie took "grand champion" in the recipe contest at the North Carolina Apple Festival and is a favorite in university food services -- "We feed the pack". It overflows with 4 pounds of native apples, brown sugar and cinnamon.
Special Education
Special education classrooms are governed not by one standard, but by the intersection of building, fire, electrical, accessibility, environmental and educational requirements. The resulting classroom is therefore a systems problem: accessibility, acoustics, lighting, ventilation, electrical power, signaling, emergency egress and assistive technology all meet in the same room.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Faculty & Student Standards Research Grants
The voluntary consensus standards system invests in its future participants. An update of our tabulation of funding opportunities. Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship Sponsor Deadline: September 8th.
August 14, 2003
The University of Michigan district energy microgrid worked flawlessly before microgrids were cool.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Observatories & Planetariums
"The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden" -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "Naturales Quaestiones" 62 A.D.