Homework problems 26-31
This is the last homework set for ES 242r / ENGM 940
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ES 241 Advanced Elasticity Final Examination
Update on 23 May 2009: I'm adding links to the slides as they are uploaded.
The final exam will take the form of a pedagogical workshop. We have 8 students taking the class for credit. I have divided the lecture notes into 8 parts as follows.
IBM Airgap Microprocessors enabled by self assembly (Video)
An earlier post by Xiaohu Liu reported IBM's latest progress in microprocessors. IBM has figured out how to control and perfect the self assembly process to create trillions of tiny, nano-sized holes across a chip, which speed electrons that flow across wires inside the chip and reduce the power consumed by 15 percent.The following short video may help us understand a little bit more about the new technology. More videos, audio and images on this are available here (free, but registration needed)
Enjoy.
-Teng
Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation and Computation
Invitation to join the Google group Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation and Computation
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We must not forget to teach the fundamentals
An interesting blog discussion on the disappearance of fundamentals from teaching in Universities was brought to my attention. It serves as an interesting reminder that we who are educators in the University system must be ever vigilent in planning mechanics curricula and changes to curriculum. Should we be offering courses in the area of this month's jClub, "Nanomechanics"? Should we drop classical courses that have stopped being interesting to the majority of students (and thus attract low numbers)? Should we educate students explicitly in biomechanics without providing them a classical mechanics background? These are the questions we are likely to face in the next few years as change continues to sweep across the university system, especialy in the US but elsewhere as well. I believe that we as a community have a responsibility here to ensure that the high standards of the discipline are maintained through teaching of fundamentals and the passing along of these values to future generations!
U S Laws relevant to blogging
Here is a post at Directory Aviva listing a dozen U S Laws that every blogger should know.
Problem for registration has been fixed
On Wednesday morning, I received an email from Anastassia Paskaleva. She was unable to create an account on iMechanica, because CAPTCHA kept telling her that she typed the letters wrong. Lesley Lam, iMechanicia user number 1, has just fixed the problem. Now new users can register once more. We apologize for the inconvenience that this problem might have caused you, and thank Anastassia for letting us know the problem.
