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Marathon - Take 2

For those of you who know me well ... you will remember that I failed at Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota this past June. Even though I should have been inspired to run well in my home town on Lake Superior, the fact that I had returned from a business trip to China less than 40 hours prior to the race's start did not help (including getting sick).

Anyhow, this weekend is "Take 2" on Sunday.  I move one "great lake" over to the shores of Lake Michigan.  I will run the Milwaukee Marathon on Sunday. Wish me luck.

Stanford Business School Webinars

I've received a lot of emails from people looking for less technical webinars, often with a marketing or business development focus.  Here are a couple of my favorite sites (all free):

• Stanford Business School

In addition, MIT World in conjunction with their Sloan School of Business often has business development / strategy webcasts.

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Update on Friday night, September 29th

Laurie Everett (Director of MIT World) is the person who commented about this posting. Just in case some of you don't read blog comments ... she points out that all the MIT Sloan seminars can be accessed at this url. She is good folk!  We've had a number of conversations!

Downloadable University of Washington Engineering Courses

This is really COOL!!!!! The University of Washington has always allowed anyone to attend the live streaming sessions of their engineering classes, but this is HUGE! As of yesterday, with the start of their new academic year, a significant number of courses are available in the following manner:

• Attend live via web based streaming
• Attend "upon demand" via web based streaming

and this is why I am excited

• Attend via ftp download.
• Use this link to access the courses.

Thus, one can download the course and attend off line without any charge (most courses appear to be in the clear and do not require a registration). You won't get academic credit, but you will get the learning. Thus, expand your engineering knowledge in a discipline that is not your strength, or brush up on a topic which is an old friend. Here are this term's courses:

• AA 504 Fluid Mechanics I
• AA 516 Stability and Control of Flight Vehicles\
• AA 527 Energy Conversion I
• AA 530 Mechanics of Solids
• AA 547 Linear Systems Theory
• AMATH 401 Introduction to Methods in Applied Mathematics I
• AMATH 584 Applied Linear Algebra & Introductory Numerical Methods
• EE 502 Introduction to MEMS
• EE 547 Linear Systems
• IndE 518 Seminars on Advances in Manufacturing & Management
• IND E 521 Quality Control in Manufacturing
• MSE 504 Introduction to MEMS
• ME 501 Manufacturing Processes
• ME 504 Introduction to MEMS
• ME 518 Seminars on Advances in Manufacturing & Management
• ME 531 Conductive Heat Transfer
• ME 547 Linear Systems
• ME 556 Experimental Stress Analysis I
• ME 564 Mechanical Engineering Analysis
• ME 588 Dynamics & Vibrations

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Update on September 29th: Response to question about downloadable notes / materials. Sorry, only the lectures themselves are available.

UC Berkeley and Google Team Up

I learned of this via Outklass. The University of California at Berkeley has teamed up with Google to make their course webcasts available via Google Video. This is an extremely interesting development in the world of "open access" to knowledge.

• Google Video: Univesity of California Berkeley Webcasts

Innovation Webcasts from U. Cal Berkeley

If you are trying to better understand the innovation process, the University of California at Berkeley will webcast this Fall a series on innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. There is no charge to attend.

• Overview - Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series
  (see right hand column for speaker schedule)

Note: Access individual lectures via the main Berkeley webcasts site. You will need to look for the specific lectures with the title "Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series". A new lecture should appear about every week.

• Webcasts - Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series