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Author Archives: Alan Belniak
Using Gravity to Bring Affordable Electricity to Remote Africa
Over 1.3 billion people—20 percent of the world’s population—are without access to electricity worldwide, according to the World Bank. It’s no surprise that the majority of those people live in developing countries, including 550 million in Africa, and over 400 million in India. In developing countries, wood, charcoal, coal and dung are used for cooking and heating, and kerosene is often …
Service Lifecycle Management Yields New Solutions to Old Problems
Manufacturing has undergone many transformations over the years. From the rise of the cotton gin to the explosion of the mass assembly line, these transformations have marshaled once cottage industries like CAD and product lifecycle management into the backbone of discrete manufacturing today. Fast forward to the present day, and we’re at the dawn of a new era in manufacturing. …
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Tagged embedded software, manufacturing, product design, Service Lifecycle Management, SLM
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: 15 years and 195-plus tons of stone
January 15 is the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the United States, we commemorate his birthday as a federal holiday, recognizing his role as a chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement. In the summer/autumn of 2011, I visited the Maryland-Virginia-Washington DC area with my family to catch up with some old friends. I …
Math Basics: Order of Operations, Precedence, and Tricky Brainteasers
The Order of Operations and Precedence, Explained in a Brainteaser In my personal Facebook feed a few days ago, I saw this gem: If you can’t see the image, the brainteaser asks the following question: ‘What’s 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 …
Posted in Best Practices, Education, Puzzles
Tagged math, order of operations, precedence
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Meet the Mathcad Users: The Florida DOT Structures Group
Next in the series of our ‘Meet the Mathcad Users’ (see what Eva had to say last time) is the staff from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Structures Design Office. Thanks to modern-day luxuries and technology, interviews can be conducted in myriad ways. For this one, I traded a few email messages with some folks over at FDOT, and …
Face to Face with the Future of Engineering Calculations
Jamie worked in the Mathcad Business Unit at PTC for two weeks learning Mathcad Prime 1.0 and then using Prime to develop and produce videos demonstrating algebraic concepts. Jamie’s goal was to use Mathcad as a platform for creating high-quality algebra tutorials on topics that his peers find challenging. He began his project by researching videos already available on the Internet (http://www.khanacademy.org/) …
Meet a Mathcad Prime Developer – Pradeep Selvakumar
Recently I sat down with Pradeep Selvakumar, a software development manager on the Mathcad Prime team. What I was hoping to capture was about 90 seconds or so of some of the hard-working people that are bringing you Mathcad Prime. Instead, I got a longer interview, and responses to questions that I’m guessing you all want to hear. The video …
Mathcad and the Three Bears
My four-year-old daughter Mia is a big fan of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We read it a lot, so much so that we have developed a game of making variations to the story: Goldilocks and the Three Chairs, Goldilocks and the Three Fairs, etc. Today I want to play our little game with the readers of the …
Mathcad Prime in Urban Agriculture: Snow Farming in Boston
So, I live in Boston, and yes, we have a lot of snow this year. So very much snow, I am starting to think about everything in relation to snow. I have recovered from the shock of the Patriots loss to the Jets – it seems like 4 feet of snow ago. Mathcad Prime 1.0 launched during the big storm, …
Analyze Data With New Box Plots in Mathcad 15.0 and Prime 1.0
Mathcad’s New Box Plots We’ve introduced three new plot types to both Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime 1.0. Box plots, effects plots, and Pareto plots provide quick visualization of data. Here’s how to make a box plot. You may know box plots as box-and-whisker diagram. Box plots were first introduced by statistician John Tukey in his book, Exploratory Data Analysis, …
