Tag Archives: Engineering

Where the Mind Stops—Not!

The way people use language, changes. In the mid- and late-1990s, when the Internet was new, when blogs had yet to become widespread, when people would often use their own Web sites (or the feedback forms and “guestbooks” at others’ … Continue reading

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Answering the Questions for Prospective Faculty at IISc

Prof. Giridhar Madras of IISc has, by way of a guideline, put together a few questions which might be asked of a candidate who applies for a faculty position at IISc. The questions appear on his blog, here: [^]. Given … Continue reading

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What would you choose as the Top 5 Equations? Top 10?

I was going to write my thoughts on the issue of “Universe: Finite or Infinite?” this weekend. Though the weekend has technically already begun, I have been busy at my day-job. Further, though I have been hurriedly jotting down my … Continue reading

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Mohr’s Circle—When Was the Last Time You Used It in Your Professional Engineering Work?

As a consultant in computational mechanics, I currently help write some FEM-related code, and while doing this job, an episode from a recent past came to my mind. Let me go right on to the technical issue, keeping aside the … Continue reading

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The Recent Workshop on Advanced Nonlinear FEM at COEP

For the couple of days that just passed by, i.e. on April 9 and 10, I attended a two-day Workshop on Advanced Nonlinear FEM at COEP [^]. It was organized jointly by Pro-Sim, Bangalore [^] and COEP’s Mechanical Engineering Department. However, … Continue reading

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