EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods

Instructor: Kwabena Ofosu, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE

EGS 1007 Engineering Concepts and Methods

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)

ABOUT ME

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

BACKGROUND

Valencia College (Fall 2010 – present)EGS1007 Engineering Concepts & MethodsEGS2025 Probability and Statistics for

EngineersEGS2321 Engineering Analysis – DynamicsEGS2310 Engineering Analysis – Statics

Tallahassee Community College (2004 – 2005)Construction Materials & MethodsConstruction ManagementHighway & Transportation Engineering

TEACHING

My favorite channel? The Science Channel

Hobbies? Rugby, Cricket, Soccer, Olympics, Auto Racing,

Football

TRIVIA

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

Course Overview

Electronic spreadsheet program, data management

developed and sold by MicrosoftCurrently in 2010 release (update)Most widely used spreadsheet program in the

world

Excel

Developed by the MathWorks CompanyNumerical computing environment and

programming languageFunctionality 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.

MATLAB

MATLAB

QUESTIONS ?