Transcript EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods

Instructor: Kwabena Ofosu, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE
 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)
 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
 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
 My favorite channel?
The Science Channel
 Hobbies?
Rugby, Cricket,
Soccer, Olympics,
Auto Racing,
Football
 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
 Electronic spreadsheet program, data management
 developed and sold by Microsoft
 Currently in 2010 release (update)
 Most widely used spreadsheet program in the world
 Developed by the MathWorks Company
 Numerical computing environment and programming
language
 Functionality includes: Matrices, plotting of functions
and data, implementation of algorithms, user
interfaces, interfacing with programs written in other
languages (C, C++, and Fortran), object-oriented
programming.