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• 20 Minutes With... Tedric A. Harris

  - 2007-09-01

  With careers in both industry and academia, this mechanical engineer has helped chart the future direction of rolling element bearings. Editor's Note: Tedric Harris' name was submitted for a 20 Minutes profile by STLE's Bearings and Bearing Lubrication Technical Committee. Professional experience * The Pennsylvania State University, University...

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• A connection between a function, its inverse, and the arithmetic mean

  - 2001-10-01

  REFERENCES 1. Ayoub B. Ayoub, "Proof without Words: A Weighted Arithmetic Mean-Geometric Mean Inequality", Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, p. 39 (1999). 2. David E. Dobbs, "Concavity of Inverse Functions", Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 181-185 (1995). Ayoub B. Ayoub Mathematics Department The...

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• TESTING WHERE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD.(ESI Group and Pennsylvania State University develop computer simulations)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-12-01

  Researchers at Pennsylvania State University in University Park have teamed with engineering software maker ESI Group of Nantes, France, to develop a computer simulation that lets an engineering team road test a tire design before it even leaves the Researchers at Pennsylvania State University in...

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• Computer-projected graphics improve learning in large classes. (Pennsylvania State University Professor Thomas G. Fox automates class materials) ( Special Supplement: Zenith Data Systems)

  - 1993-02-01

  Projected computer graphics can help to overcome difficulties associated with large class sizes at colleges and universities. Pennsylvania State University Professor Thomas G. Fox makes extensive use of this technique in economics courses. He has used Asymetrix ToolBook to create color overhead transparencies incorporating text, graphics and interactive dynamic capabilities...

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• A computer literacy project for first-year college students. (Computer Literacy Project at Penn State University's McKeesport campus)

  - 1991-10-01

  The innovative Computer Literacy Project at the McKeesport campus of Penn State Univ is successfully expanding the computer literacy of incoming freshman students. Many of these students, who come from varied backgrounds, start out with poor composition and grammatical skills in addition to little knowledge of computer usage. The project...

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• A guide to establishing mainframe computer-mediated communication between a host and a remote site.

  - 1991-05-01

  Faculty, students, and administrators are using computers more and more to communicate with each other, and a researcher leaving the home university temporarily does not want to lose this communications ability. It is possible to establish computer-mediated communication CMC between the home site and the remote site. A case study...

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