Archive for the ‘School’ Category
Saturday, April 30th, 2005
I saw an article on Slashdot the other day that piqued my interest. The article links to, among other things, a PDF version of a draft of the language specification for a new programming language that is meant to succeed Fortran. I don't have a great deal of time to ...
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Following the lead of Paul and Mike, I have decided to write a little bit about what I work on at Caltech. But, instead of writing about my research, I have decided to say a little bit about a class project I am working on.
I am taking the third ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
The candidacy exam for mechanical engineering students is divided into two parts: one part to test the student's knowledge of the course material and one part to test the student's research competence. I took the coursework component in the fall, and I have until the end of this term (Friday, ...
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Friday, April 8th, 2005
She did it! Ariele passed her candidacy exam today, and she is now officially a Ph.D. candidate. What a well-earned accomplishment. Congratulations Ariele!!
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
After one of the most stressful work-related weekends I have had yet, I finally have my project code bug free (or so I hope), and I am in the business of producing pretty pictures. In fact, one such picture is below (click on the picture to see a larger version).I ...
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Monday, February 14th, 2005
Today was a reasonably low key Valentine's Day for me. I had my CFD (computational fluid dynamics) class this morning, and I subsequently proceeded to start the coding for my CFD quarter project in earnest. We are supposed to solve the Navier-Stokes equations and the energy equation (with the Bousinessq ...
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