Flint Stryker
Hi! My name's Brad. I was an engineering professor (Ph.D., VA Tech, 1991) for 33+ years, although I worked in central administration for my last 14 years. I'm a natural-born skeptic and nonstop tinkerer. I like to learn how things work, then make them better, faster, more efficient.
One of my passions is Scouting. I'm an Assistant Scoutmaster, a Brotherhood member of the OA and a Minisino Firecrafter. I am a graduate of both the Wood Badge (Fox) and Buckskin (Miami Valley Council) programs. In 2019 I served as a Troop Guide for Wood Badge course C6-444-19 (our Centennial year course). I earned the Buckskin Thunderbuck award in 2020.
In scouting we teach new skills using the EDGE method: Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, Enable. My firemaking and knots videos are principally for the scouts in my troop but I hope they are useful/interesting to all who watch them. I'm clearly not an expert in most cases, but I have tried to cover the Explain and Demonstrate parts as well as I can. Thanks!
The 13 R's of Sustainable Living
Giant Ragweed Bow Drill
Open Flame Charred Punkwood Flint & Steel Tinder
Never Give Up! Osage Orange, Defeated!
Eastern Hemlock Fatwood
Troop 516 Firecrafter Wins Annual Americana Car Show - School Bus Division - 11th Year in a Row!
Osage Orange: Victory at Last!
Yellow Ironweed!
ECE-340: L18 - Computer Generation of Random Variables (00:56:16)
ECE-340: L00 - Welcome To Class!
ECE-340: L01 - Notation and Approaches to Probability (00:40:13)
ECE-340: L02 - Basic Set Theory (00:39:39)
ECE-340: L03 - Axiomatic Probability (00:46:12)
ECE-340: L04 - Introduction to Conditional Probability (00:40:44)
ECE-340: L05 - Conditional Probability (A Second Look) (01:01:42)
ECE-340: L06 - Total Probability and Bayes' Theorem (00:58:31)
ECE-340: L07 - Let's Make a Deal and Other Examples (00:55:48)
ECE-340: L08 - Combinations and Bernoulli Trials (00:38:26)
ECE-340: L09 - The Birthday Problem (00:14:12)
ECE-340: L10 - Introduction to Random Variables (00:38:15)
ECE-340: L11 - Introduction to CDFs and PDFs (00:50:26)
ECE-340: L12 - Some Common Random Variables (00:25:10)
ECE-340: L13 - The Gaussian Random Variable (00:46:58)
ECE-340: L14 - Transformation of Random Variables (Part 1) (00:59:52)
ECE-340: L15 - Transformation of Random Variables (Part 2) (00:31:48)
ECE-340: L16 - Averages of Random Variables (Part 1) (01:03:51)
ECE-340: L17 - Averages of Random Variables (Part 2) (00:45:20)
ECE-340: L19 - Monte Carlo Simulation (00:49:22)
ECE-340: L20 - Joint Random Variables (00:50:56)
ECE-340: L21 - Conditional Probability Revisited (01:16:23)