In the early part of the 21st century, several LGBTQIA+ focused clothing brands emerged on the market. The purpose of this project is to document the history of each brand using the oral history method. We conducted oral histories with 24 brands with questions ranging from their own personal histories to how and why they started the brand. We are interested in the lives of the individuals who founded the brands in addition to the entire story of each brand from idea development to today so that way these stories can be a documented as an important part of fashion and retail history. We purposefully make these oral history transcripts available to the community in order to move research beyond the walls of the academy and make knowledge accessible to everyone.

This week we will examine the concept of a function, a fundamental concept underlying all of modern mathematics. You’re undoubtedly already familiar with functions in an intuitive sense: a function is something which, given
an input, produces an output. But you’ve probably never seen the formal definition of a function as it relates to set theory, which is what we’ll look at this week.

Next lets build a diagram that break rotation into smaller parts. The next exercise will give us a chance to build our understanding of this diagram.

Let's look more closely at how light behaves when it strikes an object. We'll cover diffuse and specular surface responses.

First we'll review De Casteljau's algorithm using three points. Then it's your turn to figure out how to do it with 4 points!

Let's review the multiplication principle which allows us to quickly count the number of possible robots.

Now we can combine split and average into a single operation called subdivide.

Next let's extend the averaging step from the previous lesson to include multiple points. Now we'll need to calculate positions using a weighted average.

Where does the string touch the parabola? See if you can come up with your hypothesis!

Introduce students to the creative design process, based on the scientific method and peer review, by application of fundamental principles and learning to complete projects according to schedule and within budget. Subject relies on active learning through a major team-based design-and-build project focused on the need for a new consumer product identified by each team. Topics to be learned while teams create, design, build, and test their product ideas include formulating strategies, concepts and modules, and estimation, concept selection, machine elements, design for manufacturing, visual thinking, communication, teamwork, and professional responsibilities.