EML 4500 Finite Element Analysis and Design (FEAD), Fall 2008, Dr. L. Vu-Quoc

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

• Office: NEB 135 (New Engineering Building)
• Classroom: FLG 270
• Class time: MWF, period 8 (3:00pm - 3:50pm)
• Office hours: MWF, period 9 (4:05pm - 4:55pm)

TAs:
Nicolas Vigroux Tel: 846-3027 E-mail: nvigroux AT ufl.edu
Sung-Uk Zhang Tel: 392-3347 E-mail: zsunguk AT ufl.edu

• Office location and hours:
  Nicolas Vigroux, NEB 148, Tue, periods 3 and 4 (9:35am - 11:30am)
  Sung-Uk Zhang, MAE-C 131, Thu, periods 7 and 8 (1:55pm - 3:50pm)

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.
• FEA in industry, NASTRAN Development, UGS.

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.

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