Introduction to Engineering Analysis:IEA

Instructor: Prof. Zvi RusakOffice Hours:

Tuesday: 4:00-6:00 PM

JEC Room 4009 Tel.276-3036

Email: rusakz@rpi.edu www.rpi.edu/~rusakz

TA: Silvia Marpicati, marpis@rpi.edu

Undergrad TA: Avetis Ioannisyan, ioanna@rpi.eduCourse web site: http://www.rpi.edu/WWW/IEA

Students Instructors:SI

• Ben Smith:– M, W: 7:00-8:00pm– Email: smithb3@rpi.edu

• Rooms to be announced

Course Objective

Integrated treatment of – static mechanics – computer laptop

for solving engineering problems

Lecture 1: Outline

• IEA Web Site Preview

• Modeling of Problem

• Newtons’s Law

• Units

• Accuracy

• Vectors

Format of Course

• Mini-lectures• In-class activities (some graded)• Homeworks (hand-written and computer)• 3 Exams: 20% Each = 60% total

– Time:110 minutes each:

• 1 Final Exam: 20%• Quiz & Homework: 20%

– A quiz will be given every two weeks.

Format of Course

• Bring your laptop, pencil and paper, book.

• Your laptop should have:– WORD– Netscape– MAPLE & Excel

Mechanics

• Statics: Equilibrium:

– F=0

– Mo=0

• Dynamics: Motion

– F = ma

MAPLE V

•A powerful symbolic computation package

• Only use computer tools when necessary.