Category: Buildings
Hybrid Physics Labs with “Astronauts” and “Experts”
College physics labs were conducted with half the students physically in the room, each working with a remote lab partner. Since this is similar to how NASA astronauts perform experiments on the Inte... Read More
Summer Solstice 2019 in Wooster Hall
As we have done in past years, a small group of those interested came to Wooster Hall to observe the skylight lights cross over the staircase at Solar Noon (at 12:58:16 EDT). This year the actual Sols... Read MoreVernal Equinox 2019
What a difference a year makes. Last year I made a time-lapse video of the Vernal equinox in Wooster Hall by standing next to a wall and taking a photo about once a minute for an hour. This year I hav... Read More
Welding Ventilation Estimate
I have been investigating the requirements for students to be able to weld on campus, which is needed for our Baja SAE team, for projects for our Engineering Senior Design course, and for other variou... Read More
Wooster Hall Rooftop Mystery
A few weeks ago I visited Wooster Hall with a time-lapse camera to try to see what happens to the light from the skylight over the main staircase at solar noon on the Winter Solstice. I was a few da... Read More
Winter Solstice in Wooster Hall
Wooster Hall at SUNY New Paltz has a neat feature: the main staircase is aligned directly North/South, and skylights are positioned above it so that at solar noon on the equinoxes the bottom of the ... Read More
This Building Sucks (Literally)!
Today the doors to the new Science Hall at SUNY New Paltz are really hard to open. There is a howling sound as wind screams its way through the cracks between the doors, which goes away temporaril... Read More
Summer Solstice in Wooster Hall
Wooster Hall at SUNY New Paltz has a neat feature. The main staircase is exactly aligned along a north-south line, and skylight windows in the ceiling were placed so that light from those windows ... Read More