EML 4500 Finite Element Analysis and Design (FEAD), Fall 2006, Dr. L. Vu-Quoc

Instructor : Dr. L. Vu-Quoc, Tel: 392-6227, E-mail: vu-quoc AT ufl.edu.

• Office: NEB 135 (New Engineering Building)
• Classroom: LAR 310
• Class time: MWF, period 8 (3:00pm - 3:50pm)
• Office hours: MWF, period 9 (4:05pm - 4:55pm)

TA : Junqiang Wang, Tel: 846-3027, E-mail: wangjunq AT ufl.edu.

• Office: NEB 107
• Office hours: Tue, periods 7 and 8 (1:55pm - 3:50pm)
  Thu, period 7 (1:55pm - 2:45pm)

Academic and administrative issues:

• Academic Honesty: All students admitted to the University of Florida have signed a statement of academic honesty committing themselves to be honest in all academic work and understanding that failure to comply with this commitment will result in disciplinary action. This statement is a reminder to uphold your obligation as a student at the University of Florida and to be honest in all work submitted and exams taken in this class and all others.
• ASME ethics web page: Code of ethics, etc.
• Accommodations for Disabilities: Students with disabilities who are requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodations.

Large finite-element models:

• Trabecular Bone Micro-Finite Element Models: Large finite element meshes (up to 11 million degrees of freedom) in bone mechanics. Mon, 12 Jun 2006.
• FEA in industry, NASTRAN Development, UGS.

Globalization and engineering education reform:

• Globalization and Engineering The Bridge, Vol.35, No.3, Fall 2005. Describe challenges to engineering workforce in the age of globalization.
• See also some quotations related to globalization and the book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman in my Statics course, Fall 2005 web page.
• Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
• Rethink Higher Education for a Changing World, Best-Selling Author Tells Conference-Goers By JEFFREY SELINGO Chronicle of Higher Education Wednesday, July 12, 2006. ... Thomas L. Friedman ... compared educating students for an uncertain future to "training for the Olympics without knowing which sport you will compete in." Less and less, ... universities should be training students for ... eight skills ... essential for the middle-class jobs of the future. ... synthesizers, explainers, and adaptors, ... leveragers, who can figure out how one person can do the job of 20, and localizers, who can discover local angles to global businesses. ... collaborators and passionate personalizers, he said, and as developers of "green," or environmentally sustainable, enterprises.
• Reforming Engineering Education The Bridge, Vol.36, No.2, Summer 2006. Ideas on reforming engineering education for the age of globalization. "In the long run, making universities and engineering schools exciting, creative, adventurous, rigorous, demanding, and empowering milieus is more important than specifying curricular details. In fact, that is my primary message." C. Vest.

On successful team-formation techniques:

• Team creativity (pdf paper) by Douglass Wilde, Stanford University, NCIIA 8th Annual Meeting, 18-20 Mar 2004.
• Lincoln Awards to Unguided Stanford Teams (ppt presentation) by Douglass Wilde, Stanford University, NCIIA 8th Annual Meeting, 18-20 Mar 2004.
• A 6-Hats Based Team Formation Strategy: Development and Comparison with an MBTI Based Approach (pdf paper) Dan Jensen, John Feland, Martin Bowe and Brian Self, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force Academy USAF Academy, CO 80840. 1999.
• Design team performance: Metrics and the impact of technology by Larry Leifer, Stanford University.

Week 13: Mon, 13 Nov 06 - Fri, 17 Nov 06
HW13 Fri, 17 Nov 2006.

Week 10: Mon, 23 Oct 06 - Fri, 27 Oct 06
HW10

Week 7: Mon, 02 Oct 06 - Wed, 04 Oct 06 (Homecoming, Fri, 06 Oct 06)
Common/NodalSoln.m
HW7

Week 6: Mon, 25 Sep 06 - Fri, 29 Sep 06
Two-bar truss system: m-file, debug, results.
Chap1/PlaneTrussResults.m
Common/NodalSoln.m
Exam 1, Fri, 29 Sep 06.

Week 5: Mon, 18 Sep 06 - Fri, 22 Sep 06
Two-bar truss system: m-file and results. Fri, 15 Sep 2006.
Chap1/PlaneTrussElement.m Chap1/TrussAssemblyEx.m
Common/NodalSoln.m
HW5

Week 4: Mon, 11 Sep 06 - Fri, 14 Sep 06
Two-bar truss system: m-file and results. Fri, 15 Sep 2006.
HW4

Week 3:
Mon, 04 Sep 06 - Fri, 08 Sep 06 HW3

Week 2: Mon, 28 Aug 06 - Fri, 01 Sep 06
HW2

Week 1:
Wed, 23 Aug 06: Course organization (web page). Video presentation of MSC NASTRAN; ppt presentation of 2005-2006 IPPD project of team FEEDME (FE simulation and optimization of the backward extrusion manufacturing process for pipe joints, General Dynamics).
Fri, 25 Aug 06: Video presentation of computational electromagnetics. Chap 4 on trusses and frames, derivation of truss element stiffness matrix by equilibrium (not yet by Galerkin method; Chap 1). Chap 1 on assembly of element stiffness matrices. Form teams of 3 or 4 (if you want to be on your own, i.e., "team" with 1 student, please let me know).
HW1

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