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Title: AN ELECTRICITY-ASSISTED FRICTION STIR WELDING PROCESS WITH CURRENT APPLIED FROM THE WORKPIECE SIDE SURFACES
Creator: Eamkulworapong, Sakda
Date: 2011-11-09, 2011-12
Description: Friction stir welding (FSW) has many promising industrial applications due to its solid-state nature and the associated benefits. However,...
Show moreFriction stir welding (FSW) has many promising industrial applications due to its solid-state nature and the associated benefits. However, some challenges still exist, such as: (i) a high tool loading force is required to generate the friction heat needed to soften the material, which often limits tool life, and (ii) FSW often desires a narrow temperature range near but below the melting point, which makes it challenging to get a deep welding depth without melting the top surface. Electricity-assisted FSW (EAFSW) has been previously studied in literature, where the current is applied from the tool. The electricity generates additional resistance heat, which may increase the welding efficiency and decrease the required tool loading force. However, this approach yields a relatively high temperature gradient in the depth direction, and is difficult to effectively enhance the welding depth without melting the top surface. In this thesis, a new EAFSW process is proposed and studied, where the current is applied from the workpiece side surfaces. The study is based on an experimentally tested physics-based model, and it shows that the new EAFSW process has a great potential to enhance the welding efficiency, decrease the required tool loading force, and increase the welding depth without melting the top surface.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers IPRO 310 MidTerm Presentation Sp08
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers IPRO 310 MidTerm Report Sp08
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers IPRO 310 Brochure Sp08
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers IPRO 310 Ethics Sp08
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers IPRO 310 Final Presentation Sp08
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Designing and Building Prototypes for Assisting Blind Swimmers IPRO 310 Abstract Sp08
Creator: Canales, Hernan, Denloye, Olasoji, Lima, Pedro, Lu, Zhenlin, Pabba, Shabarinath, Patel, Amit, Rodriguez, Tito, Sakla, Emmanuel, Schejbal, Jeffrey, Solomon, Samuel, Warns, Jodi, Yousuf, Talha
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United...
Show moreIPRO 310 is continuing into its fourth semester of creating devices to assist the millions of blind and visually impaired people in the United States to swim independently and without sustaining injuries. Due to the size of the team, now and in the past, IPRO 310 divides itself into 3 subteams. The three sub‐teams are the passive sub‐team, the active sub‐team, and the research sub‐team; which this year has become the business plan/EnPRO sub‐team. Though we meet as a single IPRO several times a week, most of the work done outside of class will be in separate teams. Because of the great differences between each segment of the project, each sub‐team has devised their own plan. The passive team will first present their plan to create a large device that can be installed into a pool to assist blind and visually impaired swimmers. Following that, the active team will present their plan to create a small device that can be worn by a blind and visually impaired swimmer to warn them about obstacles. Lastly, the business team will present their plan to devise a business plan to start a successful start‐up business by using the device that the passive team is working on.
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Final PresentationSp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Posters 3Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Project Plan Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Final Report Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Midterm Report Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing Affordable Products for the Rural Poor of the World (semester?), IPRO 325
Creator: Balradijev, Nikola, Hazariwala, Nirav, Kim, Danny, Locquiao, Jeremy, Osborn, Tony, Gonzalez, Ricardo, Kang, Sung Koo, Mcclain, Jaime, Harris, Justin, Schiller, Brian
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: OBJECTIVES IPRO 325’s objective is to create a program at IIT which looks to make an impact in the most immediate problems dealing with the...
Show moreOBJECTIVES IPRO 325’s objective is to create a program at IIT which looks to make an impact in the most immediate problems dealing with the world’s rural poor. We seek to do this via the following objectives: - Extend our current research - Create working prototypes of products for the world’s poor in each of our subgroups - Raise awareness on campus about the problems facing the world’s poor - Further develop the idea of the IIT Affordable Village and make recommendations on how to proceed
Deliverables for IPRO 325: Developing Affordable Products for the Rural Poor of the World for the Spring 2007 semester.
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Poster2 Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Poster1 Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Brochure Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Developing a Computer Science Textbook that Incorporates Real and Practical Open-Ended Problem Solving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 328: Developing a Computer Science Text with Practical Open-Ended Problems IPRO 328 Ethics Sp08
Creator: Allen, David, Bathum, Nicholas, Hammes, Katherine, Jeong, Seon, Johnson, Leland, Kofman, Roman, Hyup Kwak, Noh, Patel, Vivek, Rymek, Phillip, Schmitz, Peter, Tilatti, Michael, Tran, Harry
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Dr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind...
Show moreDr. Ophir Frieder and Dr. David Grossman have completed a draft manuscript for an introductory book on Computer Science. The impulse behind this book is dissatisfaction with the way introductory computer science is currently taught. To our knowledge, there has yet to exist a text that focuses on semantic and algorithmic issues, rather than purely syntactical. Most students get bogged down by the intricacies of the programming language itself, which hinders their problem solving development. This book, in contrast to its many predecessors, will use the Ruby programming language. The language offers some good pedagogical aspects and this is couple with the fact that it is also becoming extremely popular in industry (e.g. 37Signals, as featured in BusinessWeek). By using Ruby, the team aims to aid students in learning semantic and algorithmic issues rather than the syntactical problems they face when learning other languages such as C++ and Java. In Fall 2007, the IPRO developed problem sets with solutions for the book, improved its examples, and developed sidebars. This semester, the IPRO will focus on testing the book with students new to computer science
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Title: Design of a high tension transmission system
Creator: Kubitz, Alfred L
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofhightens00kubi
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: RELIABLE QUASI-MONTE CARLO WITH CONTROL VARIATES
Creator: Li, Da
Date: 2016, 2016-07
Description: Recently, Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have been implemented in a reliable adaptive algorithm. This raises the possibility of combining...
Show moreRecently, Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have been implemented in a reliable adaptive algorithm. This raises the possibility of combining adaptive QMC with efficiency improvement techniques for independent and identically distributed (IID) Monte Carlo (MC) such as control variates (CV). The challenge for adding CV to QMC is that the optimal CV coefficient for QMC is generally not the same as that for MC. Here we propose a method for imple- menting CV in a reliable adaptive QMC algorithm. One merit of using CV with MC is that theoretically the efficiency is always no worse than vanilla MC. Our method is implemented in an efficient way so that the extra cost for CV is tolerable, and the overall time savings can be substantial. We test our algorithm on various problems including option pricing and mul- tivariate normal probability estimation for dimensions from 4 to 64. The same tests are performed on adaptive QMC algorithm without CV as a comparison. Our results show that with good CV, the cost of adaptive QMC is greatly reduced compared to vanilla QMC.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, July 2016
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