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EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods

EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods. Instructor: Kwabena Ofosu, Ph.D., P.E ., PTOE. ABOUT ME. Name pronunciation: Kwah –ben– a Oh–foe–sue Profession: Traffic Engineer Work: City of Palm Bay (2005 – present) Professional: Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.)

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EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods

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  1. EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods Instructor: Kwabena Ofosu, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE

  2. ABOUT ME • Name pronunciation: • Kwah –ben– a Oh–foe–sue • Profession: Traffic Engineer • Work: City of Palm Bay (2005 – present) • Professional: Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) Florida and Ohio Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE)

  3. BACKGROUND • Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Florida State University • Masters in Civil Engineering, Florida State University • Bachelors (Hons) Civil Engineering, K.N. University of Science and Technology, Ghana. • Ghana ? • Research activities: my website

  4. TEACHING • Valencia College (Fall 2010 – present) • EGS1007 Engineering Concepts & Methods • EGS2025 Probability and Statistics for Engineers • EGS2321 Engineering Analysis – Dynamics • EGS2310 Engineering Analysis – Statics • Tallahassee Community College (2004 – 2005) • Construction Materials & Methods • Construction Management • Highway & Transportation Engineering

  5. TRIVIA • My favorite channel? The Science Channel • Hobbies? Rugby, Cricket, Soccer, Olympics, Auto Racing, Football

  6. Course Overview • Introduction to computer software applications used to solve a variety of engineering-related problems: • data management (Excel) • procedural programming (MATLAB) • The objective of this class is to learn how to use the software products

  7. Excel • Electronic spreadsheet program, data management • developed and sold by Microsoft • Currently in 2010 release (update) • Most widely used spreadsheet program in the world

  8. MATLAB • Developed by the MathWorks Company • Numerical computing environment and programming language • Functionality includes: Matrices, plotting of functionsand data, implementation of algorithms, user interfaces, interfacing with programs written in other languages (C, C++, and Fortran), object-oriented programming.

  9. MATLAB

  10. QUESTIONS ?

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