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My Work Career. 1983 – McDonnell Douglas Aircraft. Projects – F-15, F-18, AV-8 My job Programming air flow equation Programming graphical images of same. Airplanes We Made. Air Flow – Euler Equation. Pretty simple PDE Models the pressure on an airplane wing (or whatever) while in motion
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My Work Career Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
1983 – McDonnell Douglas Aircraft • Projects – F-15, F-18, AV-8 • My job • Programming air flow equation • Programming graphical images of same Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Airplanes We Made Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Air Flow – Euler Equation • Pretty simple PDE • Models the pressure on an airplane wing (or whatever) while in motion • Has been improved for efficiency (Navier-Stokes) Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
In Pictures • Then: • Now Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Computing Then • FORTRAN • VAX-11 • Time Share • Main Frame with terminals • Tektronix 4014 display • Line Graphics (Monochrome) Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Computing Now • C/C++ • Linux • Plenty of power on desktop to write/debug/run • Open Source graphics packages high-grade • Cheap top-rate graphics hardware Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
On To High Energy Physics • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory • Particle Physics • Accelerators • Detectors • Quarks, Protons, Neutrinos, etc. • My tenure there coincided with the exponential growth of high-speed desktop computing • We all had many duties, my specialty was graphical interfaces Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Large Particle Detector Basically a cylinder consisting of hundreds of thousands of Components. The particle beam runs through the middle. The proton & anti-proton collide at the speed of light, and Break apart in predictable fashion. Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Large Particle Detector While I was at FNAL, our graphical representations went from here: Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
To here: Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
Neutrinos - MiniBooNE • Neutrinos are basically massless particles • They can be generated by a beam or the sun • The color and size of the ball, and the shape of the distribution, tell the physicist what’s going on. Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
My job • Write/improve/maintain/port Graphical User Interfaces (GUI’s) • Work with the physicists to find out what is useful/not • Keep up with computing technology to make them as useful and cost-effective as possible (programs migrated from SGI to SunOS to Linux/PC over the years) Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University
But, I always wanted to profess • 2000 - Back to school (while working) • 2002 - Qualifiers • 2002 – 2006 – Dissertation • 2004 – Early retirement FNAL, Adjunct teaching • 2006 - SHU Dr. Jeffrey Kallenbach - Siena Heights University