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Anything that gets in the way of the PhD timeline causes stress. One of the most typical research-derailers is divergence, the distraction of a student away from their research focus. Raafat M. Zaini and Saeed P. Langarudi both experienced divergence as PhD students in Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) System Dynamics program. Zaini used Stella® to map out a model of his PhD journey. It includes three stocks: research ideas, collegial feedback, and knowledge, and demonstrates the sensitive dynamic relationships between them. New ideas, feedback, and knowledge can all cause the student to question, or diverge from, their initial intended focus. Together, Zaini and Langarudi continued to use Stella to build, refine, and validate a model of the PhD experience and to help users understand the causes of, and remedies for, divergence.
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Retired from teaching, Andrew Mount is now using Stella to develop an environmentally safe marine coating. From 2005 to 2018, he studied the cellular biology of barnacle biofouling. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) which funded his research, was looking for an alternative to the toxic copper paints that are currently used to keep vessel hulls free of barnacles. Now, Mount is translating that lab’s biofouling deterrence research into marketable anti-fouling technology. The modeled rate of copper release into the ocean is extremely precise, making it easy to predict toxicity effects for over 78 known marine species. Mount is finishing his manuscript and preparing to upload his model to the isee Exchange. “The model will help the scientific and engineering communities communicate,” says Mount. “Accessible to anyone, even someone with no Stella experience, it will help potential investors through their due diligence process, provide a rationale for the resistant paint market to adopt a better solution, enable regulators and policy makers to craft better legislation and guidelines, and give consumers the information they need.”
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• Tuesday, July 18
• 8:30 AM: Getting Started with Stella workshop - Virtual Room 2
• 10:30 AM: Interface Design with Stella workshop - Virtual Room 2
• Friday, July 21
• 9:00 AM: Hackathon kickoff - Wilson
• 8:00 PM: Hackathon kickoff repeat - Wilson
• Sunday, July 23
• 9:00 AM: Hackathon presentations - Wilson
• Monday, July 24
• 11:00 AM: Towards a fully coupled Integrated Climate Assessment Model: FRIDA Version 0.1, parallel presentation by Billy Schoenberg and many others - Wilson
• 11:00 AM: Assemblies: Lowering the Barriers to System Dynamics, parallel presentation by Karim Chichakly, Bob Eberlein, Billy Schoenberg, and Steve Peterson - Marshfield
• Tuesday, July 25
• 11:00 AM: Measuring the change in behavior of a system with a single metric, parallel presentation by Billy Schoenberg, Bob Eberlein, and Pal Davidsen - Wilson
• 8:30 PM: Presentation of Barry Richmond Scholarship Award
• Wednesday, July 26
• 10:00 AM: Brazilian Chapter Annual Meeting - Wilson
• 11:00 AM: Using Storytelling and Teaching Materials to Share Systemic Insights to the Public during the COVID-19 Pandemic, parallel presentation by Babak Bahaddin and many others - Wilson
• 11:00 AM: Dynamics of COVID-19: An Exploratory Model, parallel presentation by Babak Bahaddin and many others - Wilson
• 12:15 PM: isee systems Sponsor Demo and User's Group - Wilson
• Thursday, July 27
• 8:30 AM: Learning with Loops that Matter workshop - Wilson
• 10:30 AM: Data Management and Calibration with Stella (Part 1) workshop - Wilson
• 1:30 PM: Data Management and Calibration with Stella (Part 2) workshop - Wilson
• 3:30 PM: Getting Started with Stella workshop - Wilson
• Thursday, August 10
• 9:00 AM: XMILE Technical Committee Meeting - Virtual Room 1
• 10:00 AM: SD Tools/XMILE Users Group Meeting - Virtual Room 1

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