This is the fourth comment on the review that deals solely with Florida Tech? How did this happen? I hope you are not using posts to publicize the showing of the Atlas movie.

After my lab class ends just before the movie night, I'll change into my Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction t-shirt. The number of ships waiting to be unloaded and the number of Southwest Airlines pilots not working is evidence that John Galt et al. are at work.

No, Florida Tech does not have a "plasma engineering" department, but I have done work in that area. I mentioned the movie series earlier. One of the features is the Back to the Future trilogy. One of my former business partners, Albin Czernichowski, invented the plasma arc reactor in 1959 in Cold War Poland, emigrated to France after the Cold War, and didn't make money off of what would be dubbed Mr. Fusion in the movies until he worked with me and several others here in Florida in 2006-2009. When then candidate Obama gave freebies to our customers for our biomass-to-fuel and chemicals technology to go to Solyndra's solar technology, we sold our company and shrugged. Albin was a real version of John Galt, and I was (and am) the equivalent of Quentin Daniels. That story is summarized in slides 25-32 of
https://fit.instructure.com/files/431...
In that file, shortly thereafter, you will find all aspects of our nanotechnology minor program except my Basics of Making class that I am teaching this term. Students knew how to do the materials synthesis and characterization and knew the correct philosophy, but weren't getting the jobs making the equipment until I developed a class to teach them how.

https://fit.instructure.com/courses/5... is the syllabus for my Basics of Making class. Although not on the syllabus, quite a few of the projects involve spectroscopy. None involve plasma arc engineering this year. That technology will be reserved for jbrenner's Gulch.

This book sounds like it covers a lot of ground. It would be great in college courses, but I think some of the themes in AS appeal to a younger audience. I'm surprised that my kids when they were were 10 and 12 found the movies on Amazon and liked them. I'm completely fine with them watching a popularization because it increases the chance they'll find read the books as adults.

sounds great ! Does Fl tech have a plasma engineering department. My son is applying for next year and that is what he likes best

The Atlas Shrugged Part 1 movie will get played at Florida Tech this Friday as part of my Friday 5 PM Eastern movie nights at https://fit.zoom.us/j/94822799124 and live in person as part of a series. I have "watch parties" on a big screen to get across the necessary philosophical, historical, and inspirational references from movies, TV, and other culture that I refer to in my classes. This is part of a series partially sponsored by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). The Kern Family (founders of Generac, the backup power generator company) Foundation wants us to develop an appropriate mindset to accompany the skill set issues we normally teach.

This is part of my turning Florida Tech, a private university, into The Patrick Henry University from Atlas Shrugged. I easily could have gone the Dr. Stadler route, but then I read Atlas Shrugged.