Friends of the Library Annual Meeting Oct 21
Amy Hughes
Friends of the Library Annual Meeting
The Friends of the Michigan Tech Library (FMTL) will hold their 2021 annual meeting from 4:30-6 p.m. tomorrow (Oct. 21) on Zoom. All are encouraged to attend.
The meeting will consist of a short business meeting followed by a presentation by speaker Faith A. Morrison, who recently retired from Michigan Tech after 30 years of teaching, scholarship and service.
Morrison's presentation will center on issues addressed in her recent book, "Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers & Scientists," published by Cambridge University Press this year. Measurements form the backbone of scientific and engineering discovery and understanding, but no measurement value is known with 100% confidence: Equipment limitations, random events and calibration issues all conspire to make it difficult sometimes to interpret the meaning of a measurement. Uncertainty analysis is the process by which data-takers face, assess and continuously improve the reliability of their measurements. Knowing at least a little bit about uncertainty analysis would be good for everyone — it would help us to better understand decisions made with numbers, such as those used to determine the healthfulness of what we eat and drink or the efficacy of medicines and vaccines.