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We probably often fail to assist students on how to become more effective at how to improve time management and study skills. Fortunately though there are a number of great resources that I came across from the University of Texas that I thought applied to students around the globe. You can download the PDF's below and spend some time on them with your own students.

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Project being run out of Stanford University: NetFPGA, a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) geared toward network device development. As in, building your own hardware IP router and/or Ethernet switch. It's essentially a mini-computer with four GigE interfaces that can be installed as a PCI card.

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